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Guidelines for the Review of Sessional Records
Next Due Date: April 15, 2008

Sessional records should include all of the following items. These are the items listed on the form used by those who will review the sessional records.

  1. Minimum of quarterly meeting
  2. Place, date and time of meeting
  3. Names of those in attendance
  4. Opening and closing in prayer
  5. Minutes read and approved
  6. Minutes signed by the Clerk
  7. Election of representatives to Presbytery and G.A.
  8. Approval of reports, requests and overtures to Presbytery
  9. The election and installation of REs and Deacons was in accord with BCO 24
  10. Congregational meeting minutes received by Session and included
  11. Record of baptisms
  12. Record of deaths
  13. Records of communing and non-communing members
  14. Record of transfers
  15. Record of professions of faith
  16. Professions of covenant children

The reviewer is also asked to rate the overall neatness and appearance of the minutes.

For more information, see the Standing Rules, 5-4 (Church Care Committee and Sessional Records). Copies (not the originals) of a session's unexamined records are due April 15, 2008, which is six weeks before the next stated meeting (May 27, 2008). The Church Care Committee will probably meet on April 29, 2008, and the Church Care Committee Chairman needs to have these in hand before that meeting. These should be mailed to:

TE Curt Presley
Christ Presbyterian Church
P.O. Box 921
Oxford, MS 38655-0921


The following is the normal schedule for the review of sessional records by Presbytery:

Feb. Stated Meeting

May Stated Meeting

Oct. Stated Meeting

  • Faith PC, Aberdeen, MS
  • Bassett PC, Bassett, AR
  • Carrollton PC, Carrollton, MS
  • First PC, Clarendon, AR
  • First PC, Clarksdale, MS
  • Covenant PC, Cleveland, MS
  • First PC, Dyersburg, TN
  • Covenant PC, Greenville, MS
  • First PC, Indianola, MS
  • Christ the King Mission, Joplin, MO
  • Covenant PC, Little Rock, AR
  • Midtown Mission, Memphis, TN
  • College Hill PC, Oxford, MS
  • Covenant Life PC, Saltillo, MS
  • Blackmonton PC, Vaiden, MS
  • First PC, Water Valley, MS
  • First PC, Winona, MS
  • First PC, Charleston, MS
  • Main Street PC, Columbus, MS
  • Corinth Mission, Corinth, MS
  • Hickory Withe PC, Eads, TN
  • Covenant PC, Fayetteville, AR
  • Grenada PC, Grenada, MS
  • Covenant PC, Hot Springs, AR
  • Houlka PC, Houlka, MS
  • Houston PC, Houston, MS
  • Itta Bena-Morgan City PC, Itta Bena, MS
  • Covenant PC, Jackson, TN
  • Grace PC, Jackson, TN
  • Marks PC, Marks, MS
  • Independent PC, Memphis, TN
  • New Life Reformed PC, Munford, TN
  • Grace PC, Starkville, MS
  • Lawndale PC, Tupelo, MS
  • Old Lebanon PC, Ackerman, MS
  • St. Andrews PC, Cordova, TN
  • Fayette County Mission, Fayette County, TN
  • Riveroaks Reformed PC, Germantown, TN
  • Westminster PC, Greenwood, MS
  • New Beginnings Community Church, Memphis, TN
  • Christ PC, Olive Branch, MS
  • Christ PC, Oxford, MS
  • Maple Drive PC, Pontotoc, MS
  • Spout Springs PC, Ripley, MS
  • Trinity Grace Church, Rogers, AR
  • Covenant PC, Russellville, AR
  • Sardis PC, Sardis, MS
  • Trinity Fellowship Church, Sherwood, AR
  • Shongalo PC, Vaiden, MS
  • Oak Ridge PC, Water Valley, MS