Tools Menu > Church Office Terms

CMD provides the means to help you manage information relating to the selecting of persons in your congregation to serve in various ministry and church office posts during your church officer year or ministry term.

While specific procedures for the selection of church officers and ministry positions will vary from church to church, many churches use some common elements in the process of selecting those who will staff these positions. We will use the term Nominating Committee to describe a group of people in your church who will nominate or select individuals to serve in various offices and ministries.

CMD can provide printed materials to assist the Nominating Committee making these selections when using the various tools provided with the Church Office Terms item on the Tools Menu. The Church Office Terms dialog contains all the tools needed to define information needed to produce these materials.

•You can designate a position for each office/ministry a person is involved in (leader, member, chair, assistant leader, etc).

•You can designate a starting and ending date for the term.

•You can define one or more nominating or selection committees that will work to fill the vacancies and positions needed.

•You can print the list of current office holders/ministry participants, highlighting those whose term ends during the current year. This list provides home and cell phone numbers (if they have been entered into your CMD data file) and space to write whether or not they were re-nominated or whether another name was selected along with a place to record their response to the invitation to serve.

Further, you may track prior offices and involvement, and you can track interests expressed for various ministries and officer position.

Each tab page on the dialog provides a specific tool:

Set Offices, Positions, Terms by Name

Set Positions & terms by Office List

Define Committees

Print Office Lists and Terms