Associate Minister

Associate Minister (1 Credit) 

The Associate Minister role includes extensive CLI training. The Associate Minister has already been ordained as a deacon minister. This ordained Associate Minister allows students to function in many capacities in ministry.

Such as:

• Associate Minister
• Officiant Minister
• Staff Minister
  
• Visitation Minister
• Associate Missionary
• Pastor's Wife

This class also tests you with comprehensive examines in the area of Old Testament knowledge, New Testament knowledge, and Church History.  If you are seeking to be ordained as an Associate Minister in a denomination other than the Christian Leaders Alliance, the Associate Minister class will prepare you. You must take the following classes before you are allowed to take this Associate Minister class. 

The Christian Leaders Alliance Minister includes 39 credits of ministry training study. This gives you a well-rounded program for Associate Minister.  The classes include:

•  Christian Leaders Connections (3 Cr)
  
• Ministry Foundations (3 Cr)
• Christian Basics (3 Cr)
  
• History of World Christianity (4 Cr)
• Church and Ministry (3 Cr)
• New Testament Survey (3 Cr)
• Old Testament Survey (3 Cr)
• Pastoral Care (3 Cr)
• People Smart for Ministry (3 Cr)
•  PeaceSmart Relationships (3 Cr)
• Developing House Churches (3 Cr)
• Deacon Minister Ordination (1 Cr)
•  Associate Minister Ordination (this course) (1 Cr)

 39 Minimum Credits

Once you are done with this class, you will be recognized as an Ordained Associate Minister in the Christian Leaders Alliance. 

1. Publication in the Christian Leaders Alliance Ordination Directory. 

2. You will have the ministry skills to lead in the following roles:

We will publish those ordained in this network so that governing agencies and the public are aware of your ordination credentials. 

What does ordination for the Christian Leaders Directory look like?

1. This ministry ordination is a primary or secondary ordination. If you already are ordained in a denomination, an association, or a non-denominational church, this ordination is a "secondary ordination." We do not want to usurp any local authority in relation to you. Our goal is to be a blessing. 

If you have no local ordination option, this Christian Leaders Ordination will be recognition that you completed an advanced ministry training course of study. We also consider it a proclamation to the world that you are an agent of the organization of the Church at a local level.  After you are done with this class, we will ask that you have a local leader or mentor or ordaining authority; whether a pastor, elder or deacon sign on the certificate to testify that you are a person of God who is called, who walks with God, who has the qualifications and the temperament of a spiritual leader.  

We also consider this Christian Leaders ordination in the order of "Stephen in Acts 6:5 and Phoebe in Romans 16:1" in the Bible. This way we are not engaged in the headship debates at a local level on the meaning of ordination concerning women in ministry. You will be ordained into ministries like Stephen or Phoebe were in the early church. 

2. You will be published at our website as ordained for ministry in the Christian Leaders Directory. Your bio and contact info will be located there. Your updated ministry profile will also be there. If you are in a persecuting country, you are exempted from participating in this activity. 

3. Your local calling, gifts, and responsibility will determine the ministry title by which you will be called. This ordaining to ministry generally covers the following areas but is not limited to this list.  

This class was developed in our previous ordination track. Some of the lectures may bring a little confusion, please report any major problems.

Required Reading 
All materials for the course are available online. No book purchase is necessary.

Assignments
1. Read the online articles for each topic and study the study guide for the comprehensive test. You may also save these articles to your own computer for further study. 
2. Listen to online video lectures. For some videos, there is also a corresponding article. Slides for each video are posted as a text file in some cases. If you wish, you may save each file on your computer and adapt the slides to use when you teach others.
3. Take tests and quizzes and complete online activities covering the readings and videos. You will have 85 minutes for the comprehensive tests. Once a quiz or test has started, you must finish it, and you can only take the comprehensive test once more if you failed to get 75 percent. If you fail the first time, please study your notes carefully before you take the comprehensive tests again. The topic quizzes can only be taken once.  While taking the quizzes or tests, you may use your notes and refer to articles and other materials.

Once all the quizzes have been taken at least once, you will receive a final grade for the course, which will be recorded on your transcript. If a course allows more than one attempt, but you've completed at least one-attempt on each quiz and finished the last remaining quiz/activity, thus receiving a final grade, you will not be able to update that final grade by attempting a quiz again afterward. Once your final grade is recorded on your transcript, it will not be updated based on additional quiz attempts.