Another Pulpit Supply question

[raekwon]

I'm planning to make myself available for pulpit supply to churches in our presbytery, as well as some local non-PCA churches that know me well. What should I include in my "I'm available" email? I'm guessing just a general statement of availability and a couple of links to well-received sermons I've preached in the past.

What say you?

 

[Notthemama1984]

Attempt to talk to them face to face or at least over the phone. It is more personal than email.

 

[raekwon]

Hm. Perhaps. These are all churches who already know me well, though. I'm not looking for any sort of semi-permanent supply either -- just letting them know I'm here if some emergency comes up or a pastor goes on vacation or something.

 

[fredtgreco]

I think a reminder that you are licensed, and that you desire to help churches who need pulpit fill.

 

[raekwon]

(I'm not licensed yet. Should be by the Spring 2011 presbytery meeting.)

 

[fredtgreco]

Then be careful that you do not preach more than the required times (is it still 12/year?).

 

[SolaScriptura]

Ooh, and don't forget to state your salary requirements...

 

[raekwon]

Then be careful that you do not preach more than the required times (is it still 12/year?).

Yeah, we carried the 12/year limit over from Great Lakes. I'm at 4 right now, so I doubt I'd get 8 more in (at least not in presbytery pulpits) by the end of the year. Preaching in non-presbytery pulpits doesn't count.

 

[Willem van Oranje]

Then be careful that you do not preach more than the required times (is it still 12/year?).

Yeah, we carried the 12/year limit over from Great Lakes. I'm at 4 right now, so I doubt I'd get 8 more in (at least not in presbytery pulpits) by the end of the year. Preaching in non-presbytery pulpits doesn't count.

Is this a PCA limit for "non-licensed preaching"? (A seeming oxymoron to my OPC-influenced sensibilities.)

 

[raekwon]

Then be careful that you do not preach more than the required times (is it still 12/year?).

Yeah, we carried the 12/year limit over from Great Lakes. I'm at 4 right now, so I doubt I'd get 8 more in (at least not in presbytery pulpits) by the end of the year. Preaching in non-presbytery pulpits doesn't count.

Is this a PCA limit for "non-licensed preaching"? (A seeming oxymoron to my OPC-influenced sensibilities.)

No man may preach "regularly" in a presbytery without having been licensed by that presbytery. What "regularly" means is determined by each presbytery. Ours says over twelve times per year (averages to once a month) is "regular."

Looks like the OPC and the PCA see "licensing" differently. The OPC sees it as a "trial" period for ordination candidates, while the PCA sees it as protecting the pulpit. (Internship is our "trial" period.)