MPATHE ZIRO
NYALI WEST WORKERS SEMINAR
SDA CHURCH ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
General Conference
Division(branch of the General
Conference
Union
Union Mission
Conference
Stations
District
Union Conference
Field
SDA CHURCH ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
District
Local church/es
Sabbath School
Companies
Schools
Church Board Composition
• Interest coordinator
• Adventist Men Leader
• AYS Leader
• Elders
• Adventurer club Director
• Ambassador club Director
• Pathfinder club Director
• Discover Bible school coordinator
• Church clerk
• Development leader
• Treasurer
• Education secretary
• Family ministries leader
• Home & School association Leader
• Sabbath school superintendent
• Publishing Ministries coordinator
• Stewardship Director
• Prayer Ministries Leader
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Church clerk
Children's ministries leader
Music coordinator
Communication Secretary
Head Deacon
Head Deaconess
Adventist Community services
leader(DORCAS leader)
• Prayer ministries leader
• Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries
Leader
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Stewardship Director
Health ministries leader
Women ministries leader
Religious liberty leader
Possibility ministries leader
AMR Leader
Personal Ministries leader
Public affairs and religious Liberty
coordinator
• Adventist Single Ministries Leader
• Spiritual nurture
• Recommending changes in church
membership
• Coordination of evangelism
activities
• Church finances
• Maintenance of doctrinal purity
• Protection and care of church
property
• Upholding Christian standards
• Promote Adventist Education
• Coordination of church departments
• Create strategic plans for church
projects and activities.
• Spiritual Nurture: as a primary duty the CB is to foster programs and
activities in the church that focuses on molding every individual through bible
studies, prayer, and other fellowship activities ‘till all come to the unity and
stature of Christ. Eph. 4:13
• Coordination of evangelism activities: Mathew 28:18-20, the gospel
commission is another primary function of the CB, therefore devotes every
energy and resource towards every member evangelism thereby influencing
them positively hence alleviating most problems or preventing them.
• Maintenance of doctrinal purity: Concerning pure doctrine, then, God says
to give attention to it; take heed to it; carefully follow it; strive together with
other Christians for it; abide or continue in it; hold fast to it; contend for it; and
deal decisively with those who don’t. If it matters that much to God, then it
should matter that much to us. Yes, doctrinal purity has aims beyond itself.
(Math. 15:9; Rom. 16:17, Gal. 1:8; 1 Tim. 1:3; 4:6; Eph. 4:14
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES/DORCAS SOCIETY
• Based on Acts 9:36-42 – A disciple of the early church , named
Dorcas
• 2005 Changed from Dorcas to ACS, by a GC vote.
• The department focuses on identifying needs and responsibilities
with services based on specific needs through education seminars,
community development, visiting, counseling and other services
relevant to the community
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES /DORCAS SOCIETY
• ACS works to foster a strong public awareness of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church as a caring, Christ-centered resource in the
community. A growing, healthy Adventist congregation works to
make itself visible in the community and known as an asset to the
neighborhood. ACS programs and personnel are key tools in this
effort.
• Needs assessment can be carried out with a wide variety of tools:
analysis of demographic and other available information,
telephone and door-to-door surveys, interviews or meetings with
community leaders, focus group research, etc
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES LEADER/DORCAS SOCIETY LEADER
• Through ACS the church is visible and active in the community
• What Kind of “Church” is Nyali West Adventist?
 The church in the city (community)
 The church to the city (community)
 The church with the city (community)
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES/DORCAS SOCIETY
• The Church in the City(Community)
 This refers to location.
 Members are not from the community.
 There is little or no involvement in the community
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES/DORCAS SOCIETY
• The Church to the City(Community)
 This church has a sense of responsibility to do something for the
community.
 It decides unilaterally what the community needs—without
doing a needs assessment to diagnose their needs.
 It then invites the community to participate in programs in
which the community might have no interest.
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES/DORCAS SOCIETY
• The Church with the City(Community)
 Sees mission to the community as a partnership.
 Discovers from the community the burning issues.
 Brings the ministry of the church out into the community.
In other words, this is the church that ASKS the community: What needs do you see are
not being met in the community? e.g. Is it poverty, drug, and alcohol abuse? What
organizations are already doing something? What areas are not being covered—because
there are not enough resources? It says, “We want to help—How can we help?” Then it
makes a strategic plan and gets out there—with the community!
In every church there is talent, which, with the right kind of labor, might be
developed to become a great help in this work. That which is needed now for
the upbuilding of our churches is the nice work of wise laborers to discern and
develop talent in the church—talent that can be educated for the Master’s use.
There should be a well-organized plan for the employment of workers to go into
all our churches, large and small, to instruct the members how to labor for the
upbuilding of the church and also for unbelievers. It is training, education, that is
needed. Those who labor in visiting the churches should give the brethren and
sisters instruction in practical methods of doing missionary work. {9T 117.2}
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Sabbath School Department
• The sabbath school is the primary religious education system of
the Seventh-Day Adventist church and has four purposes:
 Bible Study.
 Fellowship.
 Community outreach.
 World mission Emphasis
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Sabbath School Department
“Sabbath School is one of the most important parts of
Sabbath. It gives us the opportunity for fellowship, mission
understanding, outreach and one of the greatest parts,
Bible study and discussion. What a privilege to be able to
study our Bible and the Adult Bible Study Guide in a small
group setting and make the wonderful biblical instructions
practical for our spiritual experience the next week. No one
should miss Sabbath School!”—Ted N C Wilson, president,
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Sabbath School Council
 Superintendent(chairperson)
 Assitant superintendent(s)
 Secretary,
 Assistant secretaries
 Division leaders
 Investment secretary
 Personal ministries leader
 Children ministries cordinator
 Vacation bible School director
 Elder (appointed by board or
board of elders)
 Pastor
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Sabbath School Superintendent responsiblities
 Chair the SS Council
 Sit in the church board to
represent the council
 General coordintor of the SS
 Supervise & Train all the leaders
of the Sabbath School and
encourage them to perform their
duties cheerfully and effectively.
 Prepare monthly and quarterly
reports for submission to the KCF
 Ensure the program helps,
materials and Bible study
guides are acquired by
members
 Abide by the decisions of the
SS Council
 Work closely with the pastor,
particularly in the planning of
training events, community
outreach, and special programs
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Sabbath School Other officers duties
• Investment Secretary: Gives
promotional leadership to the
investment plan for misión support.
• Division Leaders: Divisions include
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Childrens Division
Youth Division
Young Adult Division
Adult Division
Extension Division
• Sabbath School Teachers:
 cordinating lesson study
 participate in teacher
training course
 should have an aptitude for
teaching and willingness to
study extra
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Personal Ministries
Personal Ministries is a facet of the church whose origin can be
traced to the beginning of Seventh-day Adventist® history in the
1860s. It endeavors to inspire, motivate, equip, train, and mobilize
all members for dynamic Christian service with the conviction that
“The church of Christ is organized for service” (Ministry of Healing,
p. 148) and “Every son and daughter of God is called to be a
missionary; we are called to the service of God and our fellow men”
(The Ministry of Healing, p. 395).
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Personal Ministries
Objectives of Personal Ministries:
The Personal Ministries Department was established as a
major setting for soul winning activities in the Church. It
exists to teach and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in
response to the command of Jesus, in the context of the
three angels’ messages of Revelation 14:6-12.
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Personal Ministries Council
• To arrange for outreach
meetings of the church, to study
its territory and enlist every
members involvement
• To plan and implement annual
ingathering
• Train and lead members in
witnessing
• Supervise community services
activities
• Cooperate with PM department
of KCF
• To authorize disbursement of
PM budget funds
• Plan and conduct weekly and
monthly PM meetings
• Encourage reports through the
PM secretary
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Personal Ministries Leader
• Serve as a PM Council,record
minutes, record reports of
members outreach activities
• Report Pm activities to the
church during monthly church
business meeting
• To be responsible in sending
reports of church missionary
activities to the KCF
• Work with the PM council in
strategy and implementation
• Cordinate evangelism activities
of members, clubs and other
departments.
• With help of pastor and elders
set the church clender of events
for the year in conjunction with
other deparments
• Chair the PM council meetings
• Provide resources and equip
other leaders in accomplishing
their objectives.
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Personal Ministries Methods and Activities
• Door-to-door evangelism
• Distribution of literature
• Giving personal Bible studies
• Lay preaching
• Organizing and running the
• Community Service program of
• the church, including the
• Dorcas Society
• Organzing and running the annual
Ingathering program
• Managing local church Bible
Correspondence Schools
• Cooperating with the Sabbath
School Department in organizing
and running Sabbath School Action
Units.
• Cooperating with the local church
pastor in the organization and
management of small group
ministries
“There should be no delay in this well planned effort to educate the
church members. . . . The people have had too much sermonizing;
but have they been taught how to labor for those for whom Christ
died? Has a line of labor been devised and placed before them in
such a way that each has seen the necessity of taking part in the
work? . . . It is by education and practice that persons are to be
qualified to meet any emergency which may arise; and wise
planning is needed to place each one in his proper sphere, that he
may obtain an experience that will fit him to bear responsibility.”
E. G. W. (Christian Service, p. 58,59)
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Publishing Ministries Leader
• The Literature ministry of the
SDA church exists to share the
gospel of hope to all the world
through publications in all
forms.
• The aim is to uplift and dignify
life through better living;
physically, socially, emotionally
and spiritually while preparing
them for the life to com
• To encourage and equip
everyone to share the good
news of Jesus and His second
coming.
• To strengthen the personal faith
through spiritual nurturing that
comes with reading and sharing
the good news with others
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Publishing Ministries Leader
Scriptural Foundation
Spirit of prophecy mandate
• Exodus 31:18
• Isaiah 30:8
• Colporteur Ministry p. 2 “You
must begin to print a little paper
and send it out to people. Let it
be small at first; but as the
people read they will send
means with which to print, and
it will be a success from the
first. From this small beginning
it was show to me to be like
streams of light that went clear
round the world”
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Publishing Ministries Leader
Role of the Local church leader
Council
• Publishing Ministries Leader
• Publishing ministries secretary
• Personal ministries secretary
• AYS Leader
• Communication Leader
• Church Elder(s)
• Church pastor
• Any other member with
experience in Literature ministry.
• Coordinate and promote literature
evangelism.
• Assist in the promotion, sell &
distribution church approved
literature.
• To create and enhance member
readership
• To coordinate the setting up of a
church/community library.
• To work closely with the pastor and
other departments in accomplishing
these roles
CHURCH OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
Publishing Ministries Leader
• Door-to-door evangelism
• Distribution of literature
• Giving personal Bible studies
• Lay preaching
• Organizing and running the
• Community Service program of
• the church, including the
• Dorcas Society
• Organzing and running the annual
Ingathering program
• Managing local church Bible
Correspondence Schools
• Cooperating with the Sabbath
School Department in organizing
and running Sabbath School Action
Units.
• Cooperating with the local church
pastor in the organization and
management of small group
ministries
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME