Constitutional Musings: Administrative Leave of Teaching Elders

Teaching Elders are members of a particular presbytery. Ordinarily a Teaching Elder will be in a Called and Installed position as pastor, co-pastor or associate pastor with a congregation, a Temporary Pastoral relationship with a congregation, a Validated Ministry either within or beyond the jurisdiction of the church, or a member-at-large. Each of these ministry configurations involves different entities that are in covenant or contract with each other. For example a teaching elder who is in a called and installed pastoral relationship enters into a covenant that includes the teaching elder, the calling congregation and the presbytery.