For Licensed Members Desiring Ordination:
Welcome to the Licensed to Ordained information page. The process listed below is ONLY for Licensed ECA Members who desire to be Ordained.
Please follow the instructions below after determining if you meet the academic and experience requirements for Ordination. As detailed on our Apply Today Page, Ordained Ministers must have met the minimum Academics of either a degree in Biblical or Ministerial studies, or have completed the 16 required courses listed on our Bible Extension Institute Page. The experience qualifications require that one being considered for Ordination have been a Licensed Minister for a period of two years.
If you have met these requirements, we will be glad to assist you with the process of amending your membership status
from a Licensed Minister, to an Ordained Minister with the ECA.
Complete the Request for Ordination Form which is available below. Submit this form along with an updated resume of your ministry career, and and arrange to have any additional educational transcripts sent directly to the ECA from the institution.
Arrange to have your supervisor complete the Referral for Ordination Form which is attached below. As with the transcripts, this document must be sent directly to the ECA from the supervisor.
Our clarification of a supervisor:
- If you are
employed by a para-church organization, your immediate supervisor must
provide these documents. If you are the senior employee of the
organization, the senior pastor of the church which you attend regularly,
or one of your organization’s board members may submit these documents.
- If you serve on staff with a church, your senior pastor must provide these documents. If you are the senior pastor of your church, please have one of your church elders or board members submit these documents.
Both of these documents require Adobe Reader 6.0 or newer in
order to be completed. If you do not have Adobe Reader, you may download a
free copy from this sight: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Upon approval for completion, your final steps will include include an Examination Interview by a committee and an Ordination Ceremony. These events are best held at a regularly scheduled ECA conference, however, upon a candidate's request for consideration, an attempt will be made to form a committee to convene at another time and location which may be more suitable for the candidate.
Please submit all documents to ECA, PO Box 9, Bradley, IL 60915 or by Email: info@ecainternational.org or Fax: 815-937-0001.
