Ministerial Association

The Pacific Northwest Conference Ministerial Association is all the active clergy, missionaries and retired ministers who are ordained, commissioned or hold ministerial license in The Evangelical Covenant Church, and who are serving and/or living within the geographic boundaries of the Pacific Northwest Conference. Currently, there are around 200 members in the Association. Said members pay annual dues which are divided between the Conference Association and the denominational Covenant Ministerium.

Leadership:

Chair: Carmen Bensink Lewis
Vice-Chair: Nathan Daniels – Cannon Beach Community Church, Cannon Beach, OR
Treasurer: David J Sim – Renew Covenant Church, Seattle, WA
Secretary: Sally Carlson – Shoreline Covenant Church, Shorline, WA
Pastor Connection & Growth Coordinator: Kurt Notehelfer – Faith Covenant Church, Sumner, WA

Dues: $135 which can be paid by clicking the “Add to Cart” button (+ $4.34 processing fee). Please pay before April 24. [Click Here to Pay dues] You may also mail a check to:

Pacific Northwest Conference Ministerial Association
Treasurer PacNWC Ministerium
11349 20th Ave NE
Seattle, WA

What your dues pay for:

Support for the denomination Covenant Ministerium *your inclusion with this association allows you to help strengthen and encourage pastors across the country and to claim clergy status on your federal taxes, to be eligible for Sustaining Pastoral Excellence grants, to request scholarships to Midwinter, or help in times of financial need.
Crisis fund
Pastoral Care
Spiritual Direction
Committee on Ministerial Standing
Admin & other expenses

Exempt from paying dues: Military chaplains, Retired/Inactive, Licensed Theological Student, and Non-Covenant credentialed ministers. If you would like to claim financial hardship, you must contact the President of the denomination’s Covenant Ministerium for an exemption. If you are Active – Not Serving you may also request an exemption.

Denominational Resources:

Covenant Ministerium:

[Click Here] to see the bios of the Ministerium Nominees for Gather 2023

[Click Here] to go to the national Covenant Ministerium web page.

Who Are We For? Everyone with ministry credentials or interested in a call to ministry

What Do We Do? Support, connect, resource, represent, & advocate for you as leaders

The Covenant Ministerium is made up of all the women and men who hold ministerial credentials through the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), whether ordained, licensed, commissioned, or consecrated as a Minister, Missionary, or Chaplain. The purpose of the Ministerium is to support, connect, speak into discipline and policy, and to raise/maintain standards common to our leadership and ministry work for our members.

Department of Ordered Ministry

[Click Here] to go to the ECC Vocational Ministry Web page

The Department of the Ordered Ministry exists to strengthen our community of vocational ministers through advocacy, endorsement, care, and formation.