The Deaconate at The City’s Gate PCA will be charged with Oversight, Delegation, and Management of the following areas of ministry:

• Finance
• Budget Preparation
• Budget control & disbursements
• Counting & depositing financial gifts
• Providing means for gifts (envelopes?) and recording contributions
• Reports on receipts & disbursements
• Stewardship promotion & education
• Property
• Oversight of the use of all property & equipment of the congregation
• Approval of purchases of new items of property & equipment as they are needed (all major purchases, i.e., greater than or equal to $10,000, must be approved by the congregation)
•  Keeping an accurate inventory of church-owned property & equipment
• Helps
• Ushering & Collections at services
• Lighting, opening & locking, and ventilation/temperature control of rooms of building used for worship (set-up, tear-down)
• Monitoring & taping of sermons & PA systems during worship
• Counting & keeping attendance records
• Preparation of elements for communion
• Flowers/Decorations appropriate to worship (incl. seasonal)
• Organizing refreshments for fellowship times
• Mercy
• Counseling and care for Members and Neighbors, including—but not limited to—the following:
• Meeting emergency needs for food, shelter, clothing, funds
• Helping the economically needy
• Financial Counseling
• Job Counseling
• Promotion of giving to the distant poor
• Promotion of Church involvement in national & regional disaster response