Overview of conventional courses for CREs not required by the Book of Order, offered by many programs.
Establishing and maintaining a relationship between an inquirers and candidates and a Committee on Preparation for Ministry through the use of covenants depends on two basic assumptions about the preparation for ministry process. The first is that inquirer or candidate grows and develops as a person with skills for ministry during the period of inquiry/candidacy. The second is that it is the business of the Committee on Preparation for Ministry to be deliberately and creatively involved in fostering that growth.
A sample covenant with a commissioned lay pastor.
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From Organization for Mission appendices
From Organization for Mission appendices
The dependent care policy for the 226th General Assembly has been updated to take into account the GA226 docket and hybrid configuration of online and in-person sessions.
The following comments are intended as helpful advice from the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee to candidates preparing to take the Open Book Biblical Exegesis Exam. These are not the specific instructions for the examination; those are found on the examination itself.
The purpose of this resource is to assist Committees on Preparation for Ministry to be able to identify and determine competency criteria for ordination, to establish indicators of competence for inquirers and candidates at the major stages of the process, to decide what resources outside the presbytery will be used to determine the competency and to identify sources of information for determining the competency of inquirers and candidates in the covenant relationship with that presbytery.
Discusses different areas of development in the areas of education, spiritual development, interpersonal relationships, personal growth and professional development at different stages in the preparation for ministry process from admission to inquiry to the final interview before ordination. From the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta.