Deacon Election
Nick Harkness
I have been married to my beautiful wife Anita for 23 years and am looking forward to growing old with her, Lord willing. We have 4 sons together Sam, Seth, Dan, and Jared. Our three older guys were all homeschooled and have now graduated through Logos Online School. Jared is attending Logos school and will be in 6th grade this next year. Sam was recently married to Grace a few month’s back. She has been a great addition. Our family enjoys going on hiking/ Mt. biking trips.
We moved from Michigan to Moscow back in November of 2019. We have been attending Kings Cross since December 2021 and before that we were at Christ Church. I have thoroughly enjoyed serving KC these last two years at a deacon.
I am happily employed at Werkz Holsters as a design engineer and have been there since we arrived in Idaho. I enjoy sports and was the athletic director for LOS for a few years recently. I also enjoyed helping coach Jared’s baseball team.
Ian McManus
I grew up in a small farming town in northeast Colorado. I met my wife, Lyndsay, in 2007 and we married in March of 2010. After a year of marriage, we relocated to Olympia, WA and began attending Mars Hill Church. I can say that this was the first time I legitimately heard the gospel and was baptised a few weeks later. We began attending bible studies, serving at the church, and experienced a radical transformation in our lives and marriage. I then worked at Harbor Church in Olympia for 6 years before moving to Moscow to work at Emsi in March of 2021. Lyndsay and I have been married for 15 years and we have 4 children, ages 10, 8, 6, & 4. We LOVE Moscow and are delighted to be at King's Cross Church.
From our Constitution:
Electors
In church elections, voting is done by household. Those households eligible to vote will be called elector households. For voting purposes, an elector household is defined as a household where the head of that household is a member in good standing. Independant unmarried members are also considered elector households for purposes of voting. Elector households may vote in the elections of elders and deacons. The elders will qualify elector households. Three weeks prior to any church election, a ballot will be provided. Elections will be conducted at appropriate times set by the elders.
Election of Deacons
Once nominated, a candidate for deacon will be included by the deacons in their work in order to prove his fitness for office (1 Tim. 3:10).
When in their judgment, the candidate has demonstrated this, the deacons will make a recommendation, after a four-fifths majority vote, to the elders to place his name on the ballot. If, in the judgment of the elders, the candidate receives the clear and obvious support of the church as represented, the elders will ordain him through laying on of hands and prayer (Acts 6:6).
Once ordained, the deacon will serve an initial two year term, at the end of that first term the diaconate should review his work, and then make a recommendation to the session regarding whether he should be put forward for a congregational election to a five year term. This process should be repeated at the end of the five year term, for election to a life term. At the end of either the two or five year term, if either the deacon or the session determines he should not continue, there is no need to resign, his term as a church officer simply laspes/expires.