Upload your session minutes
Reading Session Minutes
The Presbytery of East Tennessee is grateful for the ministry of our churches' Clerks of Session. Your ministries of memory creation preserve a permanent record of the work of your church.
The Presbytery is NOT trying to catch you doing anything wrong. This is an educational process aimed at helping you and your church preserve its memories. The records of your church will someday be archived along with the Session Minutes of EVERY church in the Presbyterian Church (USA), at the Presbyterian Historical Society.
The purpose of Minute-writing and reviewing is to help you preserve the very best the record of your church’s ministry for the members who will come after you. You are writing history. You are ensuring the institutional memory of God’s work in your congregation.
Thank you for all your ministries of remembering and recording.
In Christ,
The Presbytery of East Tennessee
stop! FILL out the checklist
Open and fill out the checklist before going further so you'll know what the Readers are looking to find in your minutes -- items for each meeting, quarterly, and annually. Note the location of quarterly and annual items on the checklist. The checklist is in Word format.
save your minutes as pdf files
Save or "print" your church's Minutes to a folder on your computer in PDF format. If you don't know what PDF format is, or how to download your files, don't worry. Email office@presbyteryeasttn.org for help.
DO NOT SCAN your minutes into a PDF. PRINT THEM as PDF.
Upload your minutes
Some help for uploading:
We are using Dropbox for uploading your minutes.
When you click the YELLOW BUTTON that says, "Click here to upload your minutes," you'll be taken to the Dropbox uploader. Use the uploader to Add Files. DO NOT sign in to Dropbox. If you're prompted to allow cookies, click Allow.
The Dropbox uploader screen will look like the example upload screen.
Click the + to Add more files until all your minutes have been added to the upload list.
Click the + to Add the completed CHECKLIST for your minutes.
Enter Your name and Your email address.
Then, click the blue Upload button.
rejoice!
And you're done!
Rejoice!
Questions or comments? Email, text, or call office@presbyteryeasttn.org 865-688-5581.