(h) ministers eligible for a call who have been appointed to an appointment charge for a period of at one year or appointed to work as an assistant to a minister of a pastoral charge and who have been granted a seat in the presbytery, and ministers under appointment by the Committee on Ministry and Mission to serve in a Home Mission Station for a period of at least one year, and which Home Mission Station has elected to pay Assembly assessments. (i) elders from pastoral charges or home mission stations within its bounds in favour of whom written commissions have been sustained by the presbytery, provided that an additional may be commissioned from a pastoral charge for every ordained minister inducted and serving in the pastoral charge as an associate or colleague. (j) elders of sessions within its bounds who are conveners of standing committees of the Assembly, chairpersons of boards or councils of the Assembly, full-time officers of committees of the Assembly appointed to their offices by the Assembly, the Chairman of Trustees, and principals of church schools regularly appointed, (k) acting elders appointed by the presbytery from sessions within its bounds to give parity with ministerial members of presbytery. Such appointments shall be made annually following the receiving of elders' commissions and after the presbytery roll has been prepared. Ministers eligible for a Call who have been appointed by the Ministry and Mission Committee to exercise an intentional transition ministry for a period of at least one year. 5.05. Assessors. The Assembly may, upon cause shown, appoint members of one or more presbyteries to act as assessors to another presbytery for the conduct of a particular case which being disposed of their commission is closed. The Assembly at the request of a presbytery or on its own initiative may appoint assessors to sit and act with a presbytery and to have until the next meeting of the Assembly the full powers of ordinary members. 5.06. Deaconesses and home missionaries. A presbytery may extend privileges equivalent to those of an associate member to deaconesses serving within its bounds under appointment by or with the approval of the
(h) ministers eligible for a call who have been appointed to an appointment charge for a period of at one year or appointed to work as an assistant to a minister of a pastoral charge and who have been granted a seat in the presbytery, and ministers under appointment by the Committee on Ministry and Mission to serve in a Home Mission Station for a period of at least one year, and which Home Mission Station has elected to pay Assembly assessments. (i) elders from pastoral charges or home mission stations within its bounds in favour of whom written commissions have been sustained by the presbytery, provided that an additional may be commissioned from a pastoral charge for every ordained minister inducted and serving in the pastoral charge as an associate or colleague. (j) elders of sessions within its bounds who are conveners of standing committees of the Assembly, chairpersons of boards or councils of the Assembly, full-time officers of committees of the Assembly appointed to their offices by the Assembly, the Chairman of Trustees, and principals of church schools regularly appointed, (k) acting elders appointed by the presbytery from sessions within its bounds to give parity with ministerial members of presbytery. Such appointments shall be made annually following the receiving of elders' commissions and after the presbytery roll has been prepared. Ministers eligible for a Call who have been appointed by the Ministry and Mission Committee to exercise an intentional transition ministry for a period of at least one year. 5.05. Assessors. The Assembly may, upon cause shown, appoint members of one or more presbyteries to act as assessors to another presbytery for the conduct of a particular case which being disposed of their commission is closed. The Assembly at the request of a presbytery or on its own initiative may appoint assessors to sit and act with a presbytery and to have until the next meeting of the Assembly the full powers of ordinary members. 5.06. Deaconesses and home missionaries. A presbytery may extend privileges equivalent to those of an associate member to deaconesses serving within its bounds under appointment by or with the approval of the
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