2024 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Administration
From its inception (1948), Calvary Baptist Church has followed the example of the early church by electing 7 Deacons to form the Deacon Board, the main governing body. Ever since, we have been continuing the pattern of having a Deacon Board with 7 members. The Seven members comprise of the President, Vice President, Secretary, Joint Secretary, Treasurer, Jt. Treasurer and a Deacon.In order to ensure that the ideals of the founders are continued and uplifted, in the year 2012 a TRUST was formed and registered. Since then, some modifications have been done contextually without changing the founders’ core values. The Deacon Board is replaced by Executive Council. The Executive Council consists of President, Vice President, Secretary, Joint Secretary-1, Jt. Secretary-2, Treasurer, and Jt. Treasurer. The Auxiliaries heads namely, Women Superintendent, Youth Superintendent, Sunday School Superintendent, and Evangelical committee convenor is also associated with the Executive Council. The Trust Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer shall be ex-officio members of the Executive Committee. The church administration therefore is now two tires. The Trust and the Executive Council. The trust is a permanent body which takes decision in all important matters and send them to the Executive Council. The executive council shall execute all the decisions taken by the Trust. General Administration is vested in the per view of the Executive Council.
The term of any member in the Executive Council and Auxiliaries is for two years (in exceptional cases which “can be” extended for one more term, (total four years) but not more than two terms. Invariably one has to retire after four years. However, with a break of two years the same person is eligible for taking up the responsibility again.The Trust Board shall nominate a person for various post and place before the General Body (i.e., the church congregation).
As our thrust is on Evangelism, we have constituted a separate committee called Evangelical committee, comprising 7 members. This committee plans and executes the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly outreach programmes. From time-to-time finances will be provided by the church against requisition from the Evangelical Committee.
The Church has a separate office, Conference-hall, furnished with office gadgets like computers and other allied things. We have two paid Secretaries in the office and have another six persons to assist the office and the church works. By virtue of having a self-sufficient office, we extend our administrative support to various organizations like Bible society of India, Baptist Field Council, City Sunday School Union, Indian Evangelical Mission, Viswavani, Feba etc., We extend our help to those who wish to hold large scale meetings, seminars, workshops in and around the city. The administrative matters of our branch churches situated at various places in and around our district are taken care by the church Trust Board.
TRUST FORMATION : In terms of Resolution No 5(1)of the General Body which was held on 13.5.1969 had resolvedthat “All matters relating to the church shall be administered by the Deacon Board on behalf of the church”. By this landmark decision the entire powers of administration were vested in the Deacon Board. The same resolution was reiterated in further subsequent General Body meetings right up to 1975. Consequent to the vesting of such powers in the Deacon Board, The Deacon Board in turn vide Resolution No.12 dt.20.04.2010 had appointed a three men committee comprising 1. Rev.P.V.Prasad. 2. Mr. D. Krupadankumar and 3. Mr. G. Mathew Peter to study the possibility for the formation of a TRUST to have an uninterrupted administrative control over the affairs of the church and to have a smooth and continued administration for auniformed work irrespective of changesin leadership and to safeguard the church and its properties in the light of the various unpleasant developments in various churches and organizations.
The scope of the committee was as follows:
- The three-men committee would study at length all previous records and documents and endeavour to bring a paradigm shift in the way that the church and its units are being run.
- To find ways and means to safeguard and put to maximum utilization of all the properties of the church.
- To take up activities of charity and social responsibility both in the church and in the community at large.
- To suggest and bring in new ideas in the manner as to how bigger churches were being run both in the country and abroad.
The three-member committee took up the arduous task with all sincerity and pondering over all previous records and history of the church had submitted a detailed report to the Deacon Board which was accepted in toto vide Resolution No.13., dated. 23.4.2012. Further to the acceptance of the report by the Deacon Board which was also communicated to the General Body on 28.04.2012 vide minute No.7 the Calvary Baptist Church Charitable Trust came into being.