Muskingum Valley Presbytery

2026 Annual Reporting Packet

Requested due date: January 31, 2027 Reporting year: 2026

Return completed paper forms to: Muskingum Valley Presbytery, PO Box 1479, Ashland, OH 44805. Keep a copy for your church records.

This is a staging proof. The questions match the prepared Church Commons forms, but the office should approve the final paper layout and return instructions before public release.

Form 1 of 3

Annual Church Information Update

Please confirm the information below and correct anything that has changed.

Congregation information

Congregation name

Mailing address

ZIP code

Website

Church phone

Church email

Clerk of Session

Name

Phone

Treasurer

Name

Phone

Pastoral leadership

Pastor or primary pastoral leader

Phone

Additional pastors and ministry staff — name, role, email, and phone for each

Office and other changes

Office staff — name, role, email, and phone for each

Anything else that needs updated?

☐ I have reviewed this congregation information and believe it is current.

Name of person completing this form

Date

Form 2 of 3

Annual Ministry Reflection

This required reflection should come from a Session conversation. Healthy congregations are not all alike, and MVP does not rank or score congregations. Honest reflection helps the presbytery encourage, support, and accompany churches faithfully.

Begin together

☐ Our Session discussed this Annual Ministry Reflection together.

Date of the Session conversation

Where have we seen God at work?

Where have you seen God at work in and through your congregation this year? Tell us a story.

Where has God surprised you this year?

Neighbors and witness

Tell us a story about how your congregation shared the love and faithfulness of God in Christ with your neighbors this year.

Who are your congregation’s neighbors today, and what are you learning from them—not simply doing for them?

Who is not currently being reached, included, or well served that God may be calling you to notice?

Spiritual formation

Where are people growing in prayer, Scripture, testimony, service, generosity, or discernment?

Compared with a year ago, are more people becoming comfortable praying with and for others?

☐ Many more☐ Some more☐ About the same☐ Fewer☐ We do not know

About how many people took a noticeable new step toward praying with or for others?

What spiritual practice would you like to strengthen in the coming year?

Forming people for ministry

Who took a meaningful step of faith, leadership, or service that stretched them beyond their comfort zone?

Who are you intentionally equipping and entrusting with greater responsibility?

Relationships

How has the Session intentionally strengthened relationships among its members this year?

How has the congregation helped people know, care for, and remain connected to one another?

Where are relationships healthy and life-giving? Where is strain, distance, or conflict requiring attention?

How would you describe significant relational strain or conflict?

☐ No known significant concern☐ Some strain☐ Significant strain needing attention☐ Active conflict☐ COM or another helping body is engaged☐ Prefer a private conversation

Session practice and leadership

Which best fits the balance of your Session meetings?

☐ Strong balance☐ Generally balanced☐ Mostly management☐ Almost entirely management and structure☐ Varies too much to say

Estimate the share of a typical meeting. Total should be about 100%.

Spiritual formation and prayer %

Relationship building and mutual care %

Vision, discernment, and mission %

Management and operations %

Structure, policy, and procedures %

Is this balance helping your Session become the spiritual and missional leadership community your congregation needs? What would you like to change?

Faithful experimentation and courage

What did your congregation try this year that involved risk, experimentation, or doing something differently? What did you learn?

What have you stopped, released, or substantially changed because it no longer served your mission well?

Which best reflects your congregation’s movement right now?

☐ Actively experimenting and learning☐ Taking some new steps☐ Open to change but unsure what to do☐ Primarily maintaining☐ Feeling stuck☐ Change is happening faster than we can respond☐ Not sure

Stewardship in service of mission

How have your people, money, property, and institutional energy served ministry and mission this year?

Financial capacity to sustain current ministry over the next three years:

☐ Strong☐ Sustainable with normal adjustments☐ Increasing pressure☐ Significant concern☐ Immediate concern☐ Unsure

How well is your property serving your mission?

☐ Strongly supports mission☐ Generally serves ministry well☐ Asset and significant burden☐ Consuming substantial ministry energy☐ Not applicable☐ Unsure

Energy, calling, and the next faithful step

What is giving your congregation energy right now?

What is draining energy right now?

What do you believe God may be asking of your congregation in this season?

What may God be asking you to release, change, or risk?

What is one faithful next step your congregation intends to take during the coming year?

Where could another congregation, the presbytery, or another partner walk alongside you?

Would you welcome a follow-up conversation with someone from the presbytery? ☐ Yes ☐ No

Confirmation

Name of person submitting this reflection

☐ To the best of our knowledge, this submission reflects the Session’s conversation faithfully.

Form 3 of 3

Annual Necrology Report

Congregation

Reporting year

2026

Those we remember

List each person on a separate line: name, ordered ministry or service, and date of death.

☐ Our congregation has no necrology entries for this reporting year.

Submitted by

Name

Email or phone

Date