Church and tasked with getting positive social utility from church property. Kindred Works aims to renovate existing United Church properties by adding rental units sufficient to house 34,000 people over 15 years. One-third of the new company's projects are planned as below-market rental properties partially financed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. All projects will have KPMB Architects as lead designers. At it launch, it had eight projects in progress, four of which, including the St. Luke's United Church are in Toronto, with twenty projected to be started by the end of the year. Governance and structure The rules for governance are set out in The Manual, first written in 1925, and updated on a regular basis. Moderator The voice and face of the church is the Moderator, who is elected to a three-year term at each General Council. The duties of the Moderator include: giving leadership to the church, "quickening in the hearts of the people a sense of God as revealed in Christ, and heartening and strengthening the whole United Church". visiting communities of faith across the country, "giving sympathetic guidance and counsel in all its affairs". being the primary spokesperson for the United Church presiding at the meetings of the denominational council, its Executive, and its Sub-Executive. Currently, the Carmen Lansdowne holds the position following her election at the 44th General Council in August 2022. Governance structure For the first 92 years of its existence, administration was shared among four courts, or levels: pastoral charges, the primary ministry unit of the United Church, were composed of one or more congregations or preaching points. pastoral charges were members of local area presbyteries or districts, of which there were 88. presbyteries were gathered into regional conferences, of which there were 13. General Council, the church's highest legislative court, was elected and met every three years. In 2019 the church moved to a three-council model: communities of faith, which will include all pastoral charges, congregations, and other groups who gather regularly for worship. regional councils, of which there will be 16. denominational council, which will continue to be referred to as the General Council. Ministry The clergy of the United Church are called "ministers". There are two "streams", ordered ministry and lay ministry. Ordered ministry includes ordained ministers and diaconal ministers. Lay ministry refers to licensed lay worship leaders, designated lay ministers (DLM), sacraments elders and congregational designated ministers