Leadership Development | Licensing & Ordination

Ordination

Ordination is a process for provisionally licensed men and women (provisionally licensed for a minimum of 2 years) that encourages the leader’s character, expands their competencies, and affirms God’s call on their lives to long-term service.

Disclaimer: The following steps are sometimes completed in a different order depending on calendar of events and based on each candidate’s situation.

 Step 1

Start Application Process and Schedule Assessment

At the end of the Assessment Interview, you’ll receive a Personal Development Plan designed to grow your character and competencies for long-term ministry.

 Step 2

Attend all four modules within two years of your Assessment.

Modules are offered twice per year and are each two-days spent with fellow candidates pursuing ordination in the district. The modules exist to expand a leader’s competencies in the key areas listed below and include writing workshops to work on your position papers.

  • The Spirit Filled Leader Module

    • Topics: Fruit of the Spirit, gifts of the Spirit, learning and operating in your gifts, leadership in the power of the Spirit, abiding in Christ (John 15), personal and corporate prayer.

    • Paper Writing Workshop: Healer, Christ’s Body

  • The Missional Leader Module

    • Topics: The Father Heart of God, Exegeting the Culture, Creating a Missional Ministry Culture, One Size Doesn’t Fit All (mission in different contexts).

    • Paper Writing Workshop: Savior, Mission

  • The Formed Leader Module

    • Topics: Pure Desire, Emotional Spiritually Healthy, Soul Care, How God Forms the Leader’s Soul, The Shadow Side of Leadership.

    • Paper Writing Workshop: Sanctifier

  • The Pastoral Leader Module

    • Topics: Peacemaking/church discipline, communication/preaching, making disciples + equipping leaders, leadership, vision casting.

    • Paper Writing Workshop: Coming King

*All topics are subject to change.

Upcoming Modules

Modules will appear below when they go live for registration.

 Step 3

Complete Papers and Required Reading.

You will be provided with a full list explaining the requirements.

READING LIST

National Office Requirement:

  • The Fourfold Gospel (modernized) - A.B. Simpson, Steve Grusendorf

  • Wholly Sanctified - A.B. Simpson

  • The Children’s Bread - Keith Bailey

  • Filled with the Spirit, Then What? - R. Mabel Francis

  • The Pursuit of God - A.W. Tozer

  • All For Jesus - Niklaus, Sawin & Stoesz

  • The Deeper Life - A.W. Tozer

  • The Crisis of the Deeper Life - George P. Pardington

  • Models of Premillenialism - S.W. Chung, D. Methewson

  • Statement on Sanctification - C&MA Manual (H-8), 2023 Edition

Alliance NW Requirement:

  • Canoeing the Mountains - Tod Bolsinger

  • Joy Unspeakable - Martin Lloyd Jones

Four-Fold Gospel Position Papers:

  • Christ our Savior

  • Christ our Sanctifier

  • Christ our Healer

  • Christ our Coming King

  • The Church and Her Mission

 Step 4

Present Ordination Capstone Project to LOC Team.

The Capstone Project will incorporate your ministry philosophy and vision, doctrinal understanding, and personal growth into a single presentation.

The CC Team will interview you about your Project and affirm the work you have done on any Assessment conditions. They will then present your results for ordination.

 Step 5

Ordination Service

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