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Pulpit Supply Guidelines and Lists
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Updated December 2025
Pulpit Supply
Below are forms For Congregations, ​Boundaries and Ethics Policies, For Pastors, and For COM Members

For Congregations

2025 Terms of Call.docx
File Size: 62 kb
File Type: docx
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2025 Pastoral Service Contract.docx
File Size: 21 kb
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Church Financial Status Worksheet
File Size: 157 kb
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Protecting Our Children Policy.docx
File Size: 20 kb
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​For Changes in Pastoral Relationships

Frequently Asked Questions for a Transitional Pastor Search
File Size: 45 kb
File Type: docx
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Covenant with Transitional Pastor
File Size: 27 kb
File Type: pdf
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Certification of Dissolution Pastoral Relationship
File Size: 44 kb
File Type: pdf
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Pastoral Call Form for New Pastor
File Size: 206 kb
File Type: pdf
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Motion to Install or Ordain Minister 9.28.23.pdf
File Size: 83 kb
File Type: pdf
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Church Financial Report
File Size: 33 kb
File Type: pdf
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Motion to Create a Commission Ruling Elder
File Size: 86 kb
File Type: pdf
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Terms of Dissolution
File Size: 9 kb
File Type: pdf
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"Church Guide for Choosing Your Next Adventure" (Models of Ministry Beyond Called and Installed Pastor)
File Size: 211 kb
File Type: docx
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Boundaries and Ethics Policy

Signable Boundary and Ethics Policy
File Size: 1382 kb
File Type: pdf
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DCFS Acknowledgement of Mandated Reporter Status Form
File Size: 50 kb
File Type: pdf
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For Pastors

Continuing Education Form
File Size: 89 kb
File Type: pdf
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Continuing Education Grant Application 2025.pdf
File Size: 118 kb
File Type: pdf
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ENR-104 Post Retirement Service Registration
File Size: 99 kb
File Type: pdf
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ERN-110 Service Change Form
File Size: 146 kb
File Type: pdf
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Ministerial Record
File Size: 60 kb
File Type: pdf
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Ministerial Record for Commissioned Ruling Elders
File Size: 97 kb
File Type: pdf
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Seminary Debt Assistance ARH-004 form
File Size: 104 kb
File Type: pdf
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Transitional Ministry Quarterly Report
File Size: 269 kb
File Type: pdf
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For COM Members

COM Ministry Partner Report
File Size: 150 kb
File Type: pdf
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Examinations Report Form
File Size: 31 kb
File Type: pdf
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Exit Interview with Departing Pastor
File Size: 28 kb
File Type: pdf
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Exit Interview with Session
File Size: 32 kb
File Type: pdf
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Report of Commission to Install/Ordain
File Size: 25 kb
File Type: pdf
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Report of Commission Ruling Elder
File Size: 20 kb
File Type: pdf
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"Church Guide for Choosing Your Next Adventure" (Models of Ministry Beyond Called and Installed Pastor)
File Size: 211 kb
File Type: docx
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​Miscellaneous Forms

Certificates of Transfer and Reception for Members.pdf
File Size: 86 kb
File Type: pdf
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The Pulpit Supply List is for churches who need to find an individual to temporarily fill the pulpit on Sunday Morning(s). The Pulpit Supply List contains names and information of individual Presbyterian Ministers, Elders, Commissioned Ruling Elders, and ministers of other denominations who are willing and able to temporarily serve a congregation by filling the pulpit on a Sunday.

If you are a church leader who needs to find someone to fill the pulpit, please look at the Pulpit Supply Form-Church Info first and then select the Pulpit Supply List in order to determine whom you should invite to your church. After the pulpit supply person has filled the pulpit, please complete the Pulpit Supply Form-Church Feedback and send to the Presbytery Office.

If you wish to have your name added to the list please select the Pulpit Supply List Information Form below and then complete and return that form.

"Only Ministers of the Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA) or minister members of denominations with which we are in full communion, are authorized to celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion in PC(USA) churches. Commissioned Lay Pastors/Ruling Elders are not authorized to celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion in churches across the Presbytery. The only exceptions are when it is the Ruling Elder's church of membership or the church to which the Commissioned Lay Pastor is currently commissioned, training has been conducted, AND COM has granted permission specifically for that Commissioned Lay Pastor to administer the sacrament in that particular commissioning or the Ruling Elder to administer the Sacrament because of a shortage of Ministers of the Word and Sacrament in the area of the church." 
​
Rev. Elissa Bailey, Stated Clerk



Pulpit Supply Church Information Fillable Form
File Size: 98 kb
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Pulpit Supply Information Fillable Form
File Size: 195 kb
File Type: pdf
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Pulpit Supply Form Church Feedback
File Size: 107 kb
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COM Resources

Com Conflict Intensity pcusa.pdf
File Size: 120 kb
File Type: pdf
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How to Stay Alive in the Parish.pdf
File Size: 148 kb
File Type: pdf
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Guidelines Session Personnel Committee
File Size: 269 kb
File Type: pdf
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2022 Educator Certification Handbook
File Size: 491 kb
File Type: pdf
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Brief Steps of the Process 2-13
File Size: 48 kb
File Type: pdf
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Calling to Educational Ministry.pdf
File Size: 3998 kb
File Type: pdf
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Gracious Separation_08-27-13.pdf
File Size: 121 kb
File Type: pdf
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Installation Ordination Guidelines.pdf
File Size: 266 kb
File Type: pdf
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These two links are outdated
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PCUSA  Ministers/Teaching Elders

PCUSA Ordination Standards

Communion Training

GRP Communion Training part 1 Jan. 2023
File Size: 306 kb
File Type: pptx
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Introduction to Polity and Sacraments.ppt
File Size: 152 kb
File Type: ppt
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GR Communion Training part 2 Jan. 2023.pptx
File Size: 921 kb
File Type: pptx
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GRP Communion Intro January 2023.pptx
File Size: 209 kb
File Type: pptx
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Mandated Reporting

IL DCFS Acknowledgement of Mandated Reporter Status
File Size: 63 kb
File Type: pdf
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Mandated Reporting PowerPoint PDF (2019)
File Size: 1176 kb
File Type: pdf
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Mandated Reporting PowerPoint (2019)
File Size: 727 kb
File Type: pptx
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New CLC Information

For Congregations Seeking a New Pastor
CLC Glossary of Tasks
File Size: 143 kb
File Type: pdf
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CLC How to Answer and Read Narrative Questions.pdf
File Size: 93 kb
File Type: pdf
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MDP Blank Form
File Size: 192 kb
File Type: pdf
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CLC Glossary of Terms and New Processes
File Size: 281 kb
File Type: pdf
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COS User Guide
File Size: 238 kb
File Type: pdf
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MDP vs MIF Narrative Questions
File Size: 89 kb
File Type: pdf
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For Pastors Seeking a New Call 
PDP Blank Form
File Size: 179 kb
File Type: pdf
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PDP User Guide
File Size: 257 kb
File Type: pdf
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