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We're excited you're considering a credential in the Alliance, whether it's ordination, licensing (where you retain your ordination elsewhere), or doing your five-year renewal.  Ordination is a declaration of trust, and Pathways is a way of making sure that you are trusted by congregation, network, and the national Alliance.

Whatever your situation, please have these things in place:

1. Be familiar with the basics of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, including its core values and beliefs (https://arc21.org/who-we-are)

2. Be familiar with the basics of Pathways (pathways.arc21.org), the Alliance's competency-based framework for ordination. 

3. Have your resume ready. 

4. Notify your consistory that you are applying to Pathways and wish to become (or are actively discerning whether to become, or are renewing your status as) an ordained pastor.  Have them fill out the Congregational Affirmation form at their earliest convenience.

Ready to begin?  Please choose the correct application form below.