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Certified Lay Servant

What is a Certified Lay Servant?

A Certified Lay Servant serves the local church or charge and provides additional church leadership.

  • Provides program leadership, assistance, and support.
  • Leads meetings for prayer, training, study, and discussion.
  • Conducts, or assists in conducting, services of worship, preaches the Word, or gives addresses.
  • Provides congregational and community leadership and fosters caring ministries.
  • Assists in the distribution of the elements of Holy Communion.
  • Teaches the Scriptures, doctrine, organization, and ministries in The United Methodist Church.

Certified Lay Servants may develop their skills further on the tracks of “Certified Lay Speaker” and “Certified Lay Minister.”

To become a Certified Lay Servant:

  1. Courses – all taken through the Cal-Pac Conference
    a) The Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course
    b) One of the following Lay Servant Ministries Advanced Course:
    • LSM Leading Worship
    • LSM Leading Prayer
    • LSM Discovering Spiritual Gifts
    • LSM Preaching
    • LSM UM Heritage
    • LSM UM Polity
  2. Pastor and Church Council or Charge Conference recommendation.
  3. District committee on Lay Servant Ministries, or equivalent structure approval. (See ¶668.3)
  4.  

To Renew Certification as a Lay Servant:

  • Courses – One Advanced Lay Servant Ministries Course in the United Methodist Church in the last 3 years that the Lay Servant has not taken before either through the California-Pacific Conference or through BeADiciple.com.
  • Annual report of Certified Lay Servant found in the Charge Conference Forms #14.
  • Pastor and Church Council or Charge Conference recommendation.
  • District Committee on Lay Servant Ministries, or equivalent structure approval. (See ¶668.3)

 

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