Who We Are

Our Leadership

“Community is where humility and glory touch.”
-Henri Nouwen

Our session is comprised of faithful women and men who attend to the business of Grace. They keep us connected to the Presbytery and help cultivate the spiritual unity we share within our community of Milton-Freewater. We also have a team of deacons who offer friendships to those who are physically unable to join us on Sunday. They also make sure we have snacks and coffee available to share after service. Together with our pastoral leadership, these teams serve the people of Grace and those around us.

“The session is responsible for governing the congregation and guiding its witness to the sovereign activity of God in the world so that the congregation is and becomes a community of faith, hope, love and witness. In seeking to help the congregation be and become this community, the session has an important role as it engages in prayerful discernment and attends to how God’s Spirit may be at work in the congregation and in the broader community. Along these lines, we recognize that ruling elders are provided ‘with particular gifts to share in discernment of God’s Spirit and governance of God’s people’ and that ‘together with teaching elders, exercise leadership, government, spiritual discernment and discipline and have responsibilities for the life a congregation as well as the whole church.’”

-Shared from PC(USA)’s The Session and the New Form of Government Building a Community of Faith, Hope, Love and Witness