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United States Membership
CMI's
membership consists of both clergy and churches. Clergy members are
either Licensed or Ordained, both of which can be
recognized as well as conferred. Ordination, when conferred, is by
invitation only. Each clergy member is entitled to full ministerial
rights, such as performing and solemnizing marriages, baptism, and
communion. Each clergy member has a vote in the corporation.
Membership is also available to churches and parachurch organizations.
An organizational member must be incorporated and, like a clergy member,
is entitled to a corporate vote. Churches that are members of CMI
are granted three (3) votes.
CMI maintains no Ecclesiastical Hierarchy nor possesses any such
authority over any organizational members, unless granted
constitutionally by such organizational members to CMI and approved by
the general membership of CMI. CMI does not own the property of any
local church or other organizational member of CMI. Each and every
organizational member is autonomous and self-governing.
CMI offers several benefits and programs to the members and friends of
the corporation. Among these beneficial programs are...
Accountability, Annual
Convention, CMI-related Bible Colleges, Camps, Children's
Ministry, Candidature for Clergy and Churches, Church Planting,
Counseling, Fellowship, Group Tax Exemption for Organizations, Local
Church Missions Conferences, Ministerial On-the-Job Training,
Network for Missions, Pulpit Supply, Recommendations for Church
Staff, Seminars for Ministers and Churches, Youth Activities,
and Activities for Ministers and Churches.
CMI is a fellowship of churches and ministers
dedicated to reaching the lost by proclaiming the whole Gospel to the
whole man. As such, CMI wishes to join hands with all those of like
precious faith who share in this greatest of endeavors. Because the
base of this Gospel testimony, both here and abroad, is the Church
(Matthew 16:18), CMI holds as a primary purpose the establishment and
strengthening of the local church.
It is with these goals in mind, and in an effort to promote
accountability, to produce excellence in ministry and to provide
spiritual covering and authority, that our procedures and criteria for
membership credentials exist.
For a clergy application for USA Membership,
click here.
For a church/organization application USA Membership,
click here.
For a clergy renewal application,
click
here.
For a church/organization renewal application,
click here.
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