Pastor aide officers provide financial monitoring services to the pastor, giving him more time to undertake his preaching and duties as the church's spiritual leader. The financial management duties include bookkeeping, filing of receipts and coming up with innovative and cost-cutting measures that enable the church to meet its obligations efficiently.
A pastor aide officer collects views and suggestions from the congregation to improve church programs, such as prayer services or the choir. He also organizes meetings between the pastor and members of the church in cases where a member has a personal problem that he would like to discuss with the pastor for moral and spiritual guidance. This promotes interaction between the pastor and the members, leading to a unification process that makes the pastor more accessible to the congregation.
Most pastor aides have the duty of sponsoring fundraising events to raise the money a pastor needs to attend the meetings, conventions or seminars necessary for the church's growth and development. Events attended by a pastor using the funds raised by a pastor aide are aimed at increasing the church's membership by winning over new converts, often in different cities or countries. Pastor aide officers carry out the fundraising activities by encouraging the congregation to donate generously to the church, or through the sale of evangelical materials like spiritual books and rosaries.
Pastor aide officers' duties include making arrangements for the celebrations of anniversaries touching on the pastor's line of work, or his life in general. This includes birthdays and wedding anniversaries. These anniversaries are avenues through which a pastor aide organizes prayer meetings dedicated to the pastor and his family. They are meant to encourage him spiritually in his role as the leader of the church.