NACC Credentialing
Credentialing Interviews twice a year
- Spring: March 2-3, 2012, Friday-Saturday: Deadline for material submission is a January 20, 2012 postmark or email date. All materials must be typed. Hand written materials will be returned.
- Fall: 2012, Friday-Saturday: Dates will be set at the Spring NACC meeting.
- Contact the district office for the necessary paperwork by email or phone 909-392-4049
- All interviews are at Hillcrest in La Verne, CA (see maps below)
Maintaining your License
- Reports are due mid-Summer each year: Please type your answers. Hand written reports will be returned for typing. The PDF form boxes will expand when you advance to the next box. Or copy the entire form into your word processing program and email the result to the district office.
- Licenses expire at the end of each calendar year
- In order for the Licensed Minister(s) in your congregation to continue in licensed ministry for the next year, your church must have a minuted item from the church council or the church board that the congregation wants the license to be continued. Please mail a copy of this minuted action, by mid-September, to the district office.
- Relicensing at District Conference
- Everyone's licensing renewal service will take place at District Conference during Sunday Morning Worship. Email questions about this required attendance to Ministry Commission Chair John Jackson.
- Resources
- A wide variety of denominational Ministry Papers
- Sign up for your required "Ministerial Ethics Seminar"
- Ministry Readiness Evaluation for ordination and licensing: The Ministry Commission is coordinating this process through District Executive Minister Don Booz.
PSWD Nurturing & Credentialing Committee
- NACC Members:
- Janet Ober, chair (La Verne)
- Jerry Davis (Pomona Fellowship)
- Erin Matteson (Modesto)
- Elizabeth Rowan (Pasadena)
- Don Shankster (Papago Buttes)
- NACC Ex Officio with vote:
- District Executive Minister Don Booz
- Ministry Commission Chair John Jackson (Glendale)
- District Moderator Jack Storne (Live Oak)
- District Board Chair Don Fancher (South Bay)
- Duties of the NACC are in: PSWD Addendum to the Ministerial Leadership paper
- NACC is appointed by, and reportable to, the Ministry Commission of the Pacific Southwest District of the Church of the Brethren.
- Related Ministry Commission appointees:
- Mentor Overseer: John Price (Empire)
- TRIM & SeBAH Coordinator: Jim Martinez (Modesto)
NACC Meetings for Interviews at Hillcrest in La Verne, CA
Green=District Office — Yellow=Interviews in Mt View Conference Room (old board room)
