Ministerial Candidate Recommendation Forms
due 1/26/26
Pastoral Recommendation Form
A confidential response to the District Superintendent and Ministerial Studies & Credentials Boards for exclusive use in the granting and/or renewal of a District License Candidate. If the candidate is currently a Senior/Lead Pastor, please skip to number 12. (The District Superintendent provides recommendation for Senior/Lead Pastors)
Name of Candidate:
First Name
Last Name
Candidate's local church:
Name of Pastor/Mentor completing this form:
First Name
Last Name
How long have you served with this candidate?
Choose One:
I DO recommend this candidate at this time (please complete the remainder of this form)
I DO NOT recommend this candidate at this time (skip to question #9)
1. Please describe this candidate's current ministry/leadership roles.
2. In what areas of ministry do you affirm this candidate's gifting and effectiveness?
3. In what areas of life and ministry does this candidate need to develop and mature?
4. In what ways does this candidate have a significant impact in your church and local city/community?
5. Please indicate the frequency with which you met and mentored this candidate during the past 12 months.
Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
Other
6. If this candidate is married, please indicate the level at which you believe their spouse is both supportive and compatible with a call to credentialed ministry in the Church of the Nazarene.
Fully committed
Mild concerns
Significant concerns
7. Other comments:
8. Please indicate the level of your recommendation for this candidate:
With complete confidence
With growing confidence
With significant concerns
9. Digital Signature of Pastor/Mentor:
10. Church Name of Pastor/Mentor:
11. Date of submission:
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Month
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Day
Year
Date
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Church Board Recommendation - due 1/27/25
A confidential response to the District Superintendent and Ministerial Studies & Credentials Boards for exclusive use in the granting and/or renewal of a District License Candidate. Per Manual paragraph 814, this Recommendation is to be completed for the Ministerial Candidate by the Church Board.
12. Name of Candidate being considered:
First Name
Last Name
13. Name of Candidate's church:
14. We certify that this candidate has fulfilled all the requirements for District License and/or Ordination.
Yes
No (please skip to question #18)
15. This candidate is being recommended for:
First District Minister's License
Renewal of District Minister's License
Renewal of District Minister's License AND Ordination
16. Please mark one of the following Ministry Role Certifications for this Applicant (see Manual paragraph 503-528).
CED - Christian Education Minister (employed by a local church school)
CHP - Chaplain (hospital, law enforcement, military as verified by the District)
EDU - Education (employed to serve on the administrative staff or faculty of one of the educational institutions of the Church of the Nazarene)
EVR - Evangelist, Registered - is devoted to traveling and preaching the gospel as his or her primary ministry.
GA - General Assignment, Missionary (appointed by the General Board)
PAC - Senior/Lead or Associate Pastor of Parent Affiliated Congregation (elder or district licensed minister leading a PAC church designated by the District)
PAS - Lead/Senior Pastor
PSV-FT - Pastoral Service Full-Time (associate pastor in connection with the local church, serving at least 30 hrs/wk and 51% livelihood from church)
PSV-PT - Pastoral Service Part-Time (associate pastor in connection with a the local church, serving less than 30 hrs/wk and less than 51% livelihood from church)
SER - Song Evangelist, Registered (devotes the major portion of his or her time to the ministry of evangelism through music as his or her primary assignment)
SPC - Special Service/Interdenominational (in active service in a manner not otherwise provided for, which must be approved by the District Assembly upon recommendation by the District Advisory Board. Required to maintain relationship with the Church of the Nazarene)
STU - Student
U - Unassigned
17. If STU or U was marked in the previous question, please describe the formal relationship that exists with the candidate, as approved by the church board and district superintendent.
18. Action to approve by majority vote of the Church Board
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Yes
No
19. Action on this date:
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Year
Date
20. Digital Signature of Church Board Chairperson (Senior/Lead Pastor)
21. Digital Signature of Church Board Secretary
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