Credentialing Interviews twice a year

• Fall 2018: Friday-Saturday, September 21-22, 2018: Deadline for material submission is a August 28, 2018 postmark or email date. All materials must be typed. Hand written materials will be returned.
• Spring 2019: Friday-Saturday, March or April 2019: Deadline for material submission is a postmark or email date 4 weeks before the interview. All materials must be typed. Hand written materials will be returned.
• Contact the district office for the necessary paperwork by email or phone 909-406-5367
• 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.
  • Licensee’s 2017 Progress Report Form (Opens On-Line GoogleForm)
  • Covenant of Accountability (fillable PDF) (right click, then choose “save link as…”)
    • Email to Licensee
  • Mentor /Cohort 2017 Report Form (Opens On-Line GoogleForm)
    • Email to Mentor
  • Mentor / Licensee Guidelines Paper
• 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 October 1, 2017 to the district office.
    • Email to Church
• Licensed Ministers with a church position (such as pastor, associate pastor, chaplain, youth leader . . .)
  • Each year, to continue in this position (paid or unpaid) for the next year, your church must return these two forms to the district office.
    • (1) Approval for Employment of the Licensed Minister – om340 (signed by Church & Ministry Commission)
    • (2) The appropriate Renewal or Start-Up Agreement
• 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 Tom Hostetler.
    • 2017 email to Churches
• 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 the District Executive Minister.

PSWD Nurturing & Credentialing Committee

• NACC Members:
  • Chair, John Price (Empire)
  • Don Shankster (Papago Buttes)
  • John Katonah (Modesto)
  • Peggy Redman (Pomona Fellowship)
  • Susan Boyer (La Verne)
• NACC Ex Officio with vote:
  • District Executive Minister Russ Matteson
  • Ministry Commission Chair Tom Hostetler (La Verne)
  • District Moderator Karen B. Pierson (Living Savior, McFarland)
  • District Board Chair Nelda Clarke (Tucson)
• 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:
  • TRIM, SeBAH, & EFSM Coordinator

NACC Meetings for Interviews at Hillcrest in La Verne, CA

Galen Walker Board Room