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Feb 17, 2026 17 min

On Being An Elder: After Session Service

from SeaPres Podcast Hosted by Seattle Presbytery

You’ve been nominated, elected, and installed as a ruling elder at your church. You show up for your first session meeting and… God calls and equips us to serve as spiritual leaders of congregations but what that really means and how that is lived out in real time — and with real people — can be mysterious and sometimes challenging. In our podcast series “On Being an Elder” we invite both ruling and teaching elders to share their experience of working together as a session to lead the church. Real conversations about the real experiences of church leadership. After Session Service with Rev. Kristy Farber and Ben McConaughy (Mercer Island Presbyterian Church) Once an elder, always an elder. But what happens when an elder rolls off their session term?

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