Church Secretarial Duties, Evaluation, Job Description & Resume (2) with Cover Letter
Church Secretarial Duties are so diverse and numerous that it takes a very special member/person to fulfill these job duties.
On this page you will have the opportunity to post questions and comments below regarding this subject. You will get to chat with other church secretaries regarding their experiences and even find short cuts to help you with your endeavors.
If you have had an experience during your job as a Church Secretary that might help another secretary somewhere then we want you to share it! A lot of small churches like mine has volunteers for this position and they need all the help they can get.
Church Secretary Forms (Click on the link(s) to access the forms.)
- Church Secretary Job Descriptions (5)
- Church Secretary Performance Evaluation & Policy
- Church Secretary Resume (2) & Cover Letter
- Church Secretary Thank You Card
I’m always looking for different ways to save my time as Church Secretary, but at the same time I want to bring better quality of service to our church. When you have a database, spreadsheets or whatever may be the case you're not only saving your time you’re helping to organize the church, and in the event you have to retire as Church Secretary you will be making the next Church Secretary's job a lot easier and less stressful. You’re making it easier to access valuable church information when church administration needs it. Saving your time will benefit the church because then you will be more available to do other church secretarial duties.
I remember when I first started as the Church Secretary it was very overwhelming, but as time went on our Chief Financial Officer found ways to save my time and help me to get organized. Our CFO created church accounting spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel to help because I was doing ours on a paper ledger. Thank God for our CFO! Please feel free to visit her website at freechurchaccounting.com to get her free spreadsheets. She is the one who inspired me to build my website (FreeChurchForms.com).
I have a Church Secretary Job Description available also. You might need this in your employee file.
If you are looking for a job as a secretary in a church I have a Church Secretary Resume (Sample) available that you can personally customize and print.
The Church Secretarial duties and responsibilities are usually specified in the governing documents of the church. A brief summary, however, may be expressed in this way:
- Prepare records for the church in an accurate , thorough, up-to-date, usable, and prompt a way as possible.
- Preserve the records of the church; and
- Provide service and assistance to the church and others in a punctual, friendly and courteous manner.
Some other secretarial duties may even be:
- Being the recording officer of the church that includes being responsible for the minutes and records of the church board and committees.
- Arranging and managing church meetings.
- Maintaining rosters of ordained ministers, all other personnel, congregation , etc.
- Maintaining records and reporting parochial statistics.
- Implementing and operating a records management system for the church.
- Maintaining an annual report of the congregations in a form that will summarize the information for availability at any given time.
- Overseeing the archives. Attesting to all the documentation that requires signatures; and
- Performing other duties as prescribed in your church bylaws.
Church Secretarial duties are very diverse and numerous and a very important part of the church.
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We are all facing a lot of the same issues and need to help each other..so you can help and be helped here:
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