Credentials at this level permit applicants to minister locally and abroad including the performing of marriages.

 

• Applicants must be 19 years of age or older.

• Applicants must show the evidential fruit of being “Call of God”  and have held their local church license for at least 1 year.

• Applicants should be a ministry leader in some capacity or working in harmony with a ministry leader who is overseeing an active ministry.

• Applicants shall be required to attend the “Impartation with Bishop” meetings twice per year.

• Applicants are required to have completed through level 3 of the continuing education online courses.

• There is no time requirement to advance to Full-Time Ordination, after completing at least 1 year of Local ministry. Full-time ordination is for those who derive their full-time livelihood from a ministry capacity.

• The acceptance, deferral, or denial of any applicant shall be the prerogative of the ICMA committee.