The Kirk Session is made up of a minister and elders and has oversight of the whole life and service of the Church within its parish and for the spiritual and temporal oversight of the Congregation’s affairs.
The minister acts as “Moderator” of the Kirk Session and the elders are those members of a congregation who have been ordained and admitted as members of that particular Kirk Session.
The Kirk Session has responsibility for, as an Act of 1931 lays down, the people of the parish (whether church members or not), the services of the sanctuary and the organisations within the congregation. The Session is responsible for maintaining the Congregational Roll and for arranging the number and timing of Church Services in agreement with the minister. It also arranges for Communion Services.
The Kirk Session is answerable in all that it does to the local Presbytery and thence to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and all the records of the Session are inspected by the Presbytery.