He acted as a spiritual adviser, and did much religious visiting, though without pastoral charge.

Each pastoral charge may also send delegates from the congregation to assist in decision-making.

The presbytery is responsible for care and oversight of the pastoral charges within it.

Some pastoral charges celebrate communion once a month, others on a quarterly basis.

The actual policy of whom to marry is left up to the church council of each pastoral charge.

Response from pastoral charges was enthusiastic, and by 2010, over 300,000 copies had been printed.

In 1860 a house of worship was built for the use of the second church, the two societies being one pastoral charge.

His first act was to go to Rome to learn how best to carry out his pastoral charge.

It does not appear that he undertook any pastoral charge proper until 1713.

Gordon became independent and a self-sustaining pastoral charge in its own right in 1897.