Leadership nominations

Thank you for your help!

The Nominating Committee’s responsibility is to listen to God and discern qualified and gifted church members to serve in the elected positions of leadership. New leaders are elected each year at Wellspring’s Annual Meeting to fill vacancies. We have spent many hours in conversation and prayer with each other and with potential nominees, including hearing from those currently serving. We listened to current board members, happy to hear their sense of hope and energy, having spent time developing trust and bonding together over the last year. Thanks to everyone who gave us suggestions and advice, and answered our phone calls and emails!

Our goal is to present nominees whose spiritual maturity, spiritual gifts, faithfulness, availability, and teachability qualify them to serve. We are talking with potential nominees who are current Wellspring members, diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, age, spiritual gifts, marital status, leadership experience, years at Wellspring, life experience, and career path. We are striving to select nominees whose skills and gifts will enhance and complement current leaders. Details about final nominees will be made available before the Annual Meeting on June 11, where church members will vote in new leaders.

Elected leadership positions

Elder

Elders are members of the Governing Board and must comprise a majority of the Governing Board, per Wellspring’s bylaws. Elders include the senior pastor and the elder chairman. According to Wellspring’s bylaws and the constitution of our denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, elders are men who use their spiritual gifts and demonstrate leadership ability while living out Wellspring’s purpose, values, and vision. Elders are responsible for the care, oversight, protecting, teaching, equipping, and ruling of the church body. The qualifications for elder are based on 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9. For a detailed description of this role see this document.

Other Governing Board Members

Each Governing Board member has a two-fold ministry. He/she participates in vision setting and oversight for all the church’s ministries and in decision making for church-wide policy and business issues.

Member at Large

In addition to the duties described above, the Members at Large participate in Governing Board discussions in order to represent the vision, values, and objectives of the church to those within and outside the congregation. For a detailed description of this role see this document.

Secretary

In addition to the duties described above, the Secretary takes minutes at meetings, helps organize meeting agendas, and takes attendance. For a detailed description of this role see this document.

Treasurer

In addition to the duties described above, the treasurer supervises the disbursement and reporting of funds in accordance with the approved budget, chairs the church Finance Committee, and supervises the work of the church accountant. For a detailed description of this role see this document.

Financial Secretary

In addition to the duties described above, the Financial Secretary is responsible to receive all donations on behalf of the church, keep accurate records, and document the source of the donations and the purpose for which they are given. For a detailed description of this role see this document.

Deacons

The Deacons work as a team to meet the financial, emotional and physical needs of people within the church family or its outreach. According to Acts 6:3, deacons are “of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom.” For a detailed description of this role see this document.

The Nominating Committee does its work under the umbrella of Wellspring’s bylaws and according to Wellspring’s core values, statement of faith & our denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA).