GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING AN

ORDINATION/INSTALLATION OF A

MINISTER OF WORD AND SACRAMENT

1. ORDINATION/INSTALLATION IS AN ACT OF THE PRESBYTERY.

The Administrative Commission for this act shall be established by the Presbytery, in consultation with the person being ordained/installed.

Members of the Commission shall be members of this Presbytery.

·   The Moderator of the Presbytery (the Vice-Moderator or the Moderator’s designee) shall serve as Chairperson of the Commission.

·   Minister and/or Elder members of the Commission shall give the Charge to the Minister and Charge to the Congregation.

·   The Commission shall convene 30 minutes prior to the start of the service.

·   Others may be invited to participate in the service at the request of the person being ordained/installed, upon approving action by the Presbytery.

·   The date, time and place of the service of ordination/installation shall be established by the Presbytery in consultation with the person to be ordained/installed and the Session of the congregation where the ordination/installation is to be held.

2. THE SERVICE OF ORDINATION/INSTALLATION

To facilitate the participation of members of the Presbytery, the service of ordination/ installation shall be held at a time other than Sunday morning.

·   The format for the service shall ordinarily follow, or be an adaptation of, the service for ordination/installation as found in the Book of Occasional Services. A copy of this service may be found on the Presbytery website at www.kiskipby.org. It is available in PDF or RTF format. The person being ordained/ installed may draft an order of worship and submit it to the Moderator of the Presbytery for approval, at least two weeks prior to the date for the service.

·   The assignment of parts of the service to participants shall be included in the draft of the order of worship.

The person who is to deliver the sermon should be asked to do so by the person to be ordained/installed, in consultation with the Moderator of the Presbytery, at the earliest possible date.

·   Those who are to deliver the “charge to the minister” and “charge to the congregation” shall be members of this Presbytery.

·   The Moderator of the Presbytery, in consultation with the person being ordained/installed, shall be responsible for notifying participants of their respective parts in the service.

·   Ordinarily, musicians for the service will be those of the congregation where the service is to be held.

·   The selection of music, including hymns to be sung, is the prerogative of the person being ordained/installed, in consultation with the

            musician(s) for the service.

·   The production of a worship bulletin shall be responsibility of the church where the service is being held.

·   If Communion is to be included in the service, arrangements will be handled the church where the service is to be held, in consultation with the person being ordained/installed and the Moderator.

·   An offering shall be received for the Presbytery Seminary Student Aid Fund.

·   Paraments and vestments shall be red for the service.

·   The Moderator (or the one serving in place of the Moderator) shall preside at the “laying on of hands (ordinations)/welcome (ordinations and installations), the prayer and the declaration of ordination/installation.”

·   Other ministers of the Presbytery are encouraged to attend the service, robe with a red stole, participate in the processional, the laying on of hands (ordinations)/welcome, and recessional.

·   Other ministers in the community may be invited to attend the service, robe with a red stole, participate in the processional, the laying on of hands (ordinations)/welcome, and recessional.

3. RECEPTION

            Following the service, it is customary to have a reception for the person who has been ordained/installed. Refreshments are generally provided by the congregation where the service is held.