Vestries, Bishop’s Committees and other lay leaders undertake important administrative responsibilities in West Missouri’s churches. Look here for the latest Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and The Diocese of West Missouri. Find the business manual and diocesan policies and procedures for a variety of topics along with required forms and instructions. Resources on this page support the work of pastoral leaders with updated directives concerning worship and pastoral care.
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Church business
Samples for Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation
Clergy – continuing education
Other documents
Diocesan
Annual Convention
Bishop’s Committee
Bishop’s visitation
Clergy available for supply
Commission on Ministry
Confirmation
Constitution and Canons
Canonical structure
Guidelines
Pastoral Directions
Policies
Business & General
Liturgical Directives
Marriage
Remarriage
Photo & video release and licenses
Prayer Cycle
Human Resources
Hiring & Staff
Sample Letters of Agreement
Safeguarding and Misconduct Prevention
“Updates Coming Soon” … in the interim, contact hr-finasst@diowestmo.org for online enrollment.
Lay Licensed Ministries
Background
Guidelines and requirements
Application forms
Lay Licensed Ministry certificates
These files require a password to open them. Need the password? Contact at BishopsAssistant@diowestmo.org
Background Request Forms can be found in the HR section
Ordination
See also the Liturgical Directives section in the Diocesan Tab, above. For information on the ordination process visit this page.
Discernment
Forms
Templates
Misconduct prevention
- See Human Resources (HR) tab above
Provincial
General Church
International
Broken links
If you spot any broken links, please let me know at communications@diowestmo.org so we can fix them — thank you.
Other resources
- Best Practices for Parochial Archives
- Opportunities for Serving the Church in Diocesan Leadership
- Emergency Planning Resources for Congregations
- Diocesan Calendar
- Church Support
(where to go to get help) - Communication Resources
- Find a Church
- Bishop’s Visitation and Area Confirmation Schedule through August 2021
Help
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Site updates
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Software update
New features in the latest release of WordPress have allowed us to retire a commercial (paid for) software plugin. As a consequence, all the announcements carrousels and update lists have been updated. All Annual Convention nominee and resolution pages have been updated. The Diocesan Council and Standing Committee pages have been updated.
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New Page — Church Stewardship Resources
This new page provides resources to consider as you contemplate your annual giving program.
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Marriage and Remarriage section of the Diocesan Policies updated
We have reorganized the previously combined Marriages and Remarriages section into two separate sections. The Policy was converted from a PDF to a web page, and the forms have been relocated
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Documents Page updated
After a couple of months of testing the Documents Page has been reverted back to its former long scrolling format. With the more compact layout, it wasn’t possible to provide links direct to sub-sections. After considering solutions for a while, and looking at other options, We’ve reverted the page back to the previous layout. To help you get to the right section we’ve added a table of contents.
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Lay & Clergy Continuing Education, and Online Form Updates
We’ve just updated the continuing education information, and updated several inter-related forms (and a few others) to standardize how forms are delivered going forward.
Page updates
Minor updates not mentioned above.
- 09-06-2021. A broken link has been fixed, and descriptive text has been added to the Living into our Ministries text.