Church Family and Medical Leave Policy and Practice
This document describes the Covenant Ministerium’s recommendations for Church Family and Medical Leave Policy and Practice.
May 6, 2010
This document describes the Covenant Ministerium’s recommendations for Church Family and Medical Leave Policy and Practice.
Sustaining Pastoral Excellence (SPE), a grant program funded in part by the Lilly Endowment, provides funding for credentialed Covenant pastors, missionaries and chaplains to participate in experiences that help build and refine character, remain sharp in the core pastoral arts, and renew their personal relationships with Christ.
This brochure outlines the requirements for receiving a ministerial license in the Evangelical Covenant Church and explains the steps involved in receiving a first-time license.
This brochure is as a brief guide to obtaining a permanent credential (ordination, commissioning, transfer of credential) in the Evangelical Covenant Church.
This pamphlet reaffirms the biblical basis for the full participation of women in the ministries of the church.
Churches may use these documents when calling a pastor or staff member.
This document is meant to be used as a guideline for a local church to set up a Pastoral Relations Committee (PRC)
In June 2007, the Board of the Ordered Ministry released this paper (Human Sexuality & the Marriage Ethic: Towards a Biblical & Theological Discernment of God in Human Sexuality), which serves as a study guide for teaching and conversation for Covenant churches.
This eight-page paper was written ten years after the Evangelical Covenant Church voted to ordain women (in 1976), in order to put the arguments on paper.
The Constitution and Bylaws of the Covenant Ministerium were most recently revised at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Covenant Ministerium.
