Executive Presbyter
Presbytery of Arkansas
The Executive Presbyter serves as the visionary leader and chief executive officer of the Presbytery
of Arkansas, responsible for overseeing the presbytery’s vision, culture, and innovation. This role provides leadership in achieving the presbytery’s mission and goals, fostering partnerships, and supporting congregations and ministers. As the supervisor of the Director of Presbytery Operations and Congregational Vitality, the Executive Presbyter ensures alignment between vision and operational execution.
Director of Operations and Congregational Vitality
Presbytery of Arkansas
The Director of Presbytery Operations and Congregational Vitality oversees the mission, vitality, and connections within the presbytery. This position ensures the health and maintenance of the presbytery’s operations, provides support to congregations and pastors, and strengthens collaborative ministry. Responsibilities include orienting and training committee members, managing presbytery operations, facilitating congregational growth, and offering pastoral care.
Co-Presbytery Leader, The Presbytery of Detroit
The Co-Presbytery Leaders will provide spiritual and administrative leadership, guidance and oversight for the Presbytery Staff and such committees, commissions, teams, and work groups as are needed to support the process of rebuilding the Beloved Community of the Presbytery of Detroit. Co-Leadership is important to the Presbytery of Detroit as we live into the radical transformation and shifting of the culture to model shared leadership, collegiality, support of one another.
The Co- Presbytery Leaders will support the presbytery as it continues to identify and be accountable for historic and current practices of institutional and individual racism. They will assist in transforming the culture, clarifying shared priorities, and building transparent and accountable processes that serve the ministry of the Presbytery. The Co-Presbyter Leaders will model a new culture of communication, of support for committees toward increasing health and clearer systems and processes, and of working with others in the administration of the Presbytery.
The Presbytery of Detroit is currently under the original jurisdiction of the Synod of the Covenant. An Administrative Commission is working to help establish good practices, hire staff, and return jurisdiction. Please see the attached job description to also see a letter from the Administrative Commission about the progress that has been made!