Spring 2015 Congregational Meeting

You are invited to Mercy Hill’s spring congregational meeting to be held at 7pm on Wednesday May 13, 2015 at the church house (1050 Holly Dell Ct., Sewell NJ). All attenders and friends interested in Mercy Hill are invited to attend.

The purpose of this meeting is twofold:

• First, we will discuss our church’s financial commitments for this year, make pledges for giving for this year’s budget, and to pray for God’s financial provision for our church.
• Second, we will pray over the men who will be nominated to serve as our church’s first elders.

That process will go as follows. Between now and Wednesday May 13, all communing members of Mercy Hill (in covenant members who are taking the Lord’s Supper) may submit names to our interim board of elders of men who meet the qualifications of 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 for the office of elder and deacon.

Following these nominations, each nominee will be examined by our church’s board of interim elders, in the areas of:

1. his Christian experience, especially his personal character and family management (based on the qualifications set out in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:6-9)
2. his knowledge of Bible content
3. his knowledge of the system of doctrine, government, and discipline of the Presbyterian Church in America
4. the duties of the office to which he has been nominated, and
5. his willingness to give assent to the questions for ordination (from our church's book of order, 24-6).

Of the men nominated, after examination and instruction in the areas above, our elders will report to the congregation the names of those men who are qualified and eligible for election as elders and/or deacons, and will give you, the congregation, at least thirty days notice prior to the time of the election of these officers.

It is our hope that this can take place sometime in the late summer or fall 2015.

Meanwhile, please be in prayer for our church, that we would glorify God through this process, and fulfill our mission to “help people thrive in Christ.”