Presbytery Mission Planning
The PMP Team will work to weave together the PMPs of the nine legacy Presbyteries with prayerful creativity and a willingness to listen and perceive where review enables development of different directions. We will honour the faithful work of the committees that have gone before us. We will not guard the PMP of CEÌ from the movement of the Holy Spirit, but rather seek to weigh and discern how the PMP process can serve the Church in their witness, worship and service, both locally and working together across the Highlands.
The PMP does not belong to the Team, but is owned by the Presbytery, and its implementation remains a shared responsibility of every KS, congregation, and those in our various forms of ministry.
Our key areas of work are:
To further the implementation of the PMPs of the constituent Presbyteries that have united into CEÌ
To encourage local teams as they implement the PMP within their spheres, and to equip the processes of adjustment
To liaise with central service departments (eg the Law Dept, the Principal Clerk's Office, the General Trustees etc)
To work to create joined up thinking on the boundaries of the constituent Presbyteries so that our edges smooth out and we become better together
To form a unified PMP for CEÌ and undertake its annual review, seeking to advise on the best distribution of ministries, congregations and buildings to enable the mission of the Church throughout the bounds of CEÌ
To liaise with the Land & Property Committee as building decisions are made and properties prepared for sale.