Session clerks & moderators
Your minutes in minutes.

Your minutes deserve better than final‑final.pdf.

Agenda prep, minutes, attendance, and Review of Session Records (RSR) submission — all in one place. No version chaos. No ZIP files. No “sorry, resending.” Good order doesn’t have to mean late nights.

35-day free trial. No credit card required. Built by a Presbyterian clerk.

Sound familiar?

Every clerk knows.

You didn’t sign up to manage files. You signed up to serve your church. Here’s what Orderly Meetings replaces.

minutes-june-FINAL-FINAL-send-this-one.pdf
One change after sending = another round of emails to every elder. Again.
OM: one URL, always current. No resends.
agenda-template-copy-of-copy-v3.docx
Every meeting starts with copy-paste from last month’s document. Manual attendance table. Again.
OM: templates in one click. Agenda becomes minutes automatically.
motion-history-2024.xlsx (last updated ???)
Your motion log lives in a spreadsheet nobody else knows how to find or update.
OM: motion history built in. coming soon
clerk-records/ (personal OneDrive)
When your clerk leaves, your church’s records go with them. That’s a problem.
OM: records owned by the church, not the person.
RSR-records.zip (fingers crossed)
RSR time means hunting two years of minutes and hoping the upload actually works.
OM: submit in one click the moment minutes are approved.
Elder-A-cant-open-the-link.eml
Half your session can’t open the Google Doc link. The other half can’t find the SharePoint folder.
OM: one URL, view-only mode, works for everyone.
5–10 hrs
per month on document management alone
That’s 60–120 hours a year on work that shouldn’t exist. Orderly Meetings gives it back.
What’s inside

Everything you need.
Nothing you don’t.

Agenda builder
Build your agenda, coordinate with your moderator, distribute to session. One place, no email chain.
One-click to minutes
Your agenda becomes your minutes the moment the meeting opens. No copy-paste, no starting over.
Templates for every meeting
Stated, called, congregational, officer elections — right template, one click.
Built-in attendance
Members, guests, quorum — no attendance tables in Word. Tracked automatically.
Commenting threads
Feedback on agendas and minutes lives in OM, not scattered across email and ChMS chat.
PDF packet builder
One packet: minutes, attachments, reports — auto-footnoted with file and page details.
RSR pre-check
Know if your minutes pass review before the committee ever sees them. No surprise citations.
Motion history coming soon
Every motion logged automatically. No separate spreadsheet. Find anything instantly.
Sign and seal coming soon
Approve and sign minutes without chasing a physical signature.
The workflow

From docket to done.

Here’s what a meeting cycle looks like in Orderly Meetings — from agenda prep to RSR submission.

01
Build the agenda
Start from your meeting template. Add items, attach reports, notify session members with an email from Orderly Meetings. Your moderator can review and comment before the meeting.
Days before the meeting
02
Open the meeting
One click transitions the agenda to minutes mode. Take attendance — the clerk marks attendance, quorum is tracked automatically. Record motions as they happen.
During the meeting
03
Review & approve
Share minutes with session for review. Comments come back in OM, not email. Run the RSR pre-check — know if anything needs fixing before you submit.
After the meeting
04
Submit for review
Once approved, submit to your presbytery in one click — no ZIP file, no email, no hunting for the upload form. If your presbytery uses OM, review can begin whenever the review team is ready — no chasing, no waiting on submissions.
Minutes after approval
For moderators

Your clerk is carrying more than you know.

The average session clerk spends 5–10 hours a month on document management before they’ve written a single word of minutes. Version chaos, email chains, RSR scrambles, and a motion log nobody else can find.

And when they leave? If your records live in their personal cloud account, your church has a problem that takes months to fix.

Orderly Meetings gives your clerk their time back — and gives your church a permanent, organized home for every agenda, minutes, and motion your session has ever recorded.

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What moderators tell us
“I had no idea how much time our clerk was spending just getting files to the right people.”
Good order doesn’t have to mean late nights for the one person holding it all together.
The bonus

When your presbytery uses it too

If your presbytery is on Orderly Meetings, RSR submission happens automatically the moment your minutes are approved. No ZIP file. No email. No “did you get my records?” Your committee can start reviewing the same day.

You
Minutes approved
in Orderly Meetings
→
Instant
Auto-submitted
no ZIP, no email
→
Your presbytery
Review begins
same day

Ask your presbytery clerk if they’re on Orderly Meetings — or share this page with them.

Free resource
So, You’re the Clerk…
The guide every new clerk wishes they’d had. Responsibilities, records, RSR, and how to not lose your mind in the first year.

“If you can bring redemption to the brokenness of session minutes and agendas, it should be great evidence of God’s promise of making all things new.”

— Church Executive Director  ·  Presbyterian

Coming soon

Your records. Secured. Searchable. AI-assisted.

We're building AI that's designed from the ground up for Presbyterian governance — secure, opt-in, and always keeping the clerk in control.

Coming soon
File Cabinet + AI Parliamentarian
One place for all your governing documents — bylaws, constitutions, agendas, minutes, and reports. Searchable and synthesized with secure AI. Ask a question, get a sourced answer.
How OM AI is different
Secure. Opt-in. Yours.
OM AI is private by design — it doesn't train any shared model with your records. Unlike general AI notetakers, you decide how your minutes are recorded. Clerks and moderators stay in control.
Good order, made easy

Minutes done.
Meeting closed.

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