CANDIDATE APPLICATION

To process your application, please send, or have sent, the following items to the Office of the General Secretary/CIO at 500 Eighth Avenue, South, Nashville, TN 37203:

1. Have the Health Department or Department of Vital Statistics from your birth County or State send directly to the Office of the General Secretary/CIO a certified copy of your birth certificate.  Xerox copies that you have on hand are not acceptable.

2. Submit a copy of your Elder’s Ordination Certificate.  Make certain that the Presiding Bishop’s name and the Annual Conference are legible.

3. Request from your present Presiding Bishop a letter to be sent to the Office of the General Secretary indicating your present place of service and stating that you are in good and regular standing in your Annual Conference.

4. Submit a copy of your College and Seminary Diploma(s).

5. Submit a recent photograph (black and white glossy).

Be encouraged in your aspirations.