Directions

Licensed Ministers are required to complete an annual service report to the Pursuing the Call team (DBMD). Please complete the report and click on the "Done" button to save your responses. If you are unable to complete your report in a single session, select the "Done" button to save your responses and log back into the report using the same computer. This will allow you to continue completing the report.

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* 1. Last Name,First name, Middle In.,

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* 2. Mailing address

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* 3. Email address

Provide an email address you frequently use as the majority of communication from the District will be through email.

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* 4. Home phone

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* 5. Cell phone

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* 6. Gender

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* 7. Date of Birth

month/day/year

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* 8. Citizenship

If you are not a citizen of the United States or Canada, please provide information regarding your current visa status.

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* 9. Please describe any changes in your marital or family status since the last time you met with the Pursuing the Call (DBMD) team.

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* 10. Have you sent the "Annual Student Recommendation Form" link to your supervising pastor/lay leader and requested that he or she complete it? Link is at the bottom of the form.

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* 11. Name of your supervising pastor/lay leader from your local church

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* 12. Please indicate the area of responsibility to which you were appointed as a Licensed Minister

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* 13. Is this appointment Full Time (30 hours/week or more) or Part Time (10-29 hours/week)?

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* 14. Is this position paid?

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* 15. Read through the Licensed Ministry Experience Expectations at the end of this report and briefly describe how your current experience is providing opportunity for you to meet these expectations.

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* 16. Share a brief description of your spiritual growth this past year. Note any key events which may have challenged your faith or resulted in significant spiritual growth.

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* 17. Describe your current level of support of the church through your attendance, tithing practices and serving in ministry.

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* 18. Wesleyan Church where you are a member or are actively involved.

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* 19. Share any changes that have occurred in your relationship with the Local Church during this past year, including decisions to attend a different church and reasons behind the decision.

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* 20. Share your current practices that help you to maintain a passionate faith in Christ.

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* 21. Briefly describe your current family life. Share the boundaries you have established to distinguish between personal, family and work. What are some of the measures you use as a way to indicate whether your family life is healthy or not.

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* 22. Share some examples of people you have led to faith in Christ and steps you used to help connect them with the local church for ongoing spiritual development

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* 23. Share some examples of people you are mentoring or disciplining in their faith. Please describe how you engage in the process of discipleship or mentoring.

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* 24. What steps are you taking to live a "missional" lifestyle?

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* 25. In what ways are you intentionally practicing diversity in your relationships and ministry?

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* 26. Who are some key mentors in your life and what are some of the ways they have influenced you this past year?

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* 27. What is your current level of indebtedness and how do you plan to repay this debt once you are employed in ministry?

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* 28. Please list the classes you have completed this past year towards the educational requirements for ordination.

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* 29. What classes do you plan to take this next year?

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* 30. Please indicate the format in which you are currently completing your educational requirements for ordination

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* 31. Read through the "Articles of Religion" in the "Discipline of The Wesleyan Church" which can be downloaded at the link at end of this report. Indicate whether you are able to support these statements of faith.

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* 32. Read through the "Membership Commitments" in the "Discipline of The Wesleyan Church" which can be downloaded at the link at the end of this report. Indicate whether you are able to support these statements of faith.

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* 33. Are you able to fully affirm and submit to The Wesleyan Church's conviction regarding the ordination of women?

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* 34. What are some of the current social issues which evoke concern on your part or raise questions regarding the church's position on these issues? Please share any concerns that you may have.

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* 35. How does your conviction of the "Inspiration of Scriptures" align with or depart from The Wesleyan Church's article (V) on "The Sufficiency and Full Authority of the Scriptures for Salvation"?

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* 36. What is your understanding of The Wesleyan Church's doctrine on Entire Sanctification? What questions or conflicts with your own theology do you have regarding this position?

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* 37. What is your understanding of how a person experiences salvation from a Wesleyan perspective?

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* 38. How does Wesleyan teaching speak to such issues as the possibility of complete apostasy and eternal security?

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* 39. Are you striving to live a life that provides a good example of the lifestyle and conduct reflected in the Membership Commitments of The Wesleyan Church?

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* 40. Are you currently involved in a relationship, questionable activity or addiction, which, if not properly addressed will harm or destroy your ministry?

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* 41. Since your last report, have you been accused or found guilty of any criminal activity? If so, please explain:

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* 42. Are there any pending legal actions or allegations which might incriminate you in the future?

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* 43. Since your last report have you participated in, or been accused of, any sexual misconduct (such as fornication, adultery, child abuse (pedophilia), the sexual abuse of adolescent minors, or homosexuality)?

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* 44. Please share any requests for changes in your appointment category or relationship with the West Michigan District for this next year.

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* 45. Licensed Ministry Experience and Expectations:

Personal and professional balance of life and ministry. Licensed Ministers should be learning to establish healthy boundaries between work and personal/family life. They should be maintaining practices that lead to a healthy, growing personal faith. In addition they should be developing plans for ongoing professional development and training once they have completed the educational requirements for ordination or commissioning.

Communication and teaching skills. While not every position may involve regular preaching, every person who serves in a ministerial capacity will be called upon to teach the Word. Opportunity should be provided for teaching and communicating the truth of Scripture. While this may not involve preaching in the main worship services in every church, opportunities should be provided for teaching in class settings, chapel services or other venues that are available for the Licensed Minister to develop his/her communication skills.

Living missionally. Every pastor should be living missionally as he/she engages in some form of personal evangelism. While not everyone will have the gift of evangelism, everyone is responsible for sharing his/her faith and inviting people to consider becoming a follower of Christ. The Licensed Ministry experience should provide opportunity and accountability for the student to be regularly involved in activities in which he/she will engage with the unchurched community and share in some form of personal evangelism.

Leadership and management skills. A key part of every pastor’s experience is working with people. This involves casting vision, recruiting and training leaders and learning to handle conflict in a healthy manner. Licensed Ministers are expected to learn how to deal with the experiences involved in leading and managing people as they prepare for ordination. In addition, Licensed Ministers should be conversant with the process of casting vision, setting goals, achieving buy-in to the goals and being accountable for achieving goals as a part of their ministerial preparation. The Licensed Ministry setting should be designed in such a way as to make the student accountable for some form of goal setting and accountability for the primary ministry in which he/she serves.

Administrative skills. Not everyone is gifted in the area of administration, but every position of ministry will have some form of administrative detail to be maintained. It is important that during the Licensed Ministry training, the student is exposed to the various levels of administrative work that takes place in the church and is responsible for overseeing some segment of administrative work as a part of his/ her assignment. In addition Licensed Ministers should learn to be conversant with standard principles of financial management for non- profit organizations as well as gain experience in budgeting and raising funds for ministry.

Mentoring and Counseling. Many pastors will experience different levels of responsibility when it comes to shepherding people in their care. For some, they will primarily serve as a spiritual shepherd to their immediate staff or leadership board, while others may have the ministry of spiritual shepherding and counseling to the entire congregation as their primary focus. It is expected that a part of the Licensed Ministry experience will involve some form of working with individuals to help them grow in their journey of faith. Experience in being mentored and serving as a spiritual mentor for others is expected as a part of being a Licensed Ministry.

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Please click the link for a version of the Discipline of the Wesleyan Church:
The Discipline of the Wesleyan Church
"Articles of Religion" and "Membership Commitments" are on pages 13-27, paragraphs 210-268.

Please click the link for a version of the Discipline of the Wesleyan Church:<br><a href="https://www.wesleyan.org/286/the-discipline-of-the-wesleyan-church" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Discipline of the Wesleyan Church</a><br>"Articles of Religion" and "Membership Commitments" are on pages 13-27, paragraphs 210-268.

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Please copy the link and email to your Supervising Pastor or Lay Leader requesting that he or she complete it on your behalf:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AnnualStudRecommendation

Please copy the link and email to your Supervising Pastor or Lay Leader requesting that he or she complete it on your behalf:<br>https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AnnualStudRecommendation

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