Memorial Baptist Church • Middlebury, Vermont


The Purpose, Doctrine, Covenant and By-Laws

Memorial Baptist Church
Middlebury, Vermont

Originally Adopted November 4, 1998
As Revised through February 5, 2006

Sections (see numbered links at bottom of page)

1. Revisions
2. Name, Purpose, Polity
3. Doctrine
4. A Covenant
5. Section I - Membership
6. Section II - Officers and Boards
7. Section III - Duties of Officers
and Governing Boards

8. Section IV - The Pastor
9. Section V - General Practices
10. Section VI - Amendments
11. Internal Controls


Revisions

Originally Adopted, November 4, 1998

now includes the following revisions:

January 26, 2000
SECTION II, Article 1; SECTION III, Article 3
(“Director of Christian Education” replaced by
“Members of the Board of Christian Education.”)
SECTION III, Article 8
(Makeup and terms of service of the Board of Christian Education,
how its members are chosen and the Board’s responsibilities.)
SECTION V, Articles 1 and 3
(Changed the meeting day for the Annual and Quarterly Meetings of the church
from Wednesday to Sunday.)

April 29, 2001
SECTION III, Article 4
(Changed to $1,000 instead of $500 the amount the Trustees are allowed to spend
without authorization at a properly warned meeting.)

July 28, 2002
SECTION V, Article 1
(Changed Annual Meeting date from last Sunday in January to first Sunday in February.)

February 2, 2003
SECTION II, Articles 1 and 5; SECTION III, Articles 3 and 9
(Deleted Worship and Music Coordinator.)
(Replaced Section III, Article 9 with Article 10, etc. Now Section III has 12 Articles.)

May 4, 2003
SECTION I, Article 3
(The right hand of fellowship induction will include the signing
of the Purpose, Covenant and By-Laws as kept by the Clerk.)
SECTION III, Article 1
(Board of Christian Education may include non-members.)
SECTION III, Article 6 (Paragraph 2)
(Financial Secretaries will designate who is to be the Head Financial Secretary.)

October 31, 2004
SECTION I, Article 5
(Gives a time limit for people to remain on the inactive members list
before the Deacons may remove them from this list.)
SECTION I, Article 6
(Added this Article which gives designations clerk shall use to enroll new members.
These designations will be assigned by the Pastor and Board of Deacons.)

February 5, 2006
(Purpose {statement} revised and simplified.)

July 27, 2008
Section III, Article 3, paragraph 2, 3rd bullet
(Administration of the Deacons' Fund detailed.)

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