Credentialed Delegate Process

The credentialing process for voting delegates to the Business Session is described in Article II of the EFCA Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and provides information about the number of delegates to which each church is entitled. 

Church delegates are appointed by each EFCA church. In order to expedite the credentialing approval process, please have a church official (pastor, elder or staff person) send names of appointed church delegates and church name and city/state to officeofthepresident@efca.org. Credentialing approvals must be completed by 5:00 p.m. CT on Thursday, June 5, 2025. 

If you have questions related the credentialing process, please contact officeofthepresident@efca.org or call (800) 745-2202. 

Membership

1. Composition. The following persons shall be voting members of the Conference, provided in each case that that person is a member in good standing of an Evangelical Free church:

[a] Delegates appointed by each Evangelical Free church, consisting of two delegates for the first one hundred (or fraction of one hundred) members of that church plus one additional delegate for each additional one hundred (or fraction of one hundred) members of that church.

[b] The lead or senior pastor of each Evangelical Free church provided that the lead or senior pastor holds ministerial credentials in good standing with the EFCA. For the purposes of these Bylaws, the term “ministerial credentials” refers to a Certificate of Ordination, Certificate of Christian Ministry or Ministry License.

[c] Members of the EFCA Network who hold a ministerial credential in good standing with the EFCA or have been granted life membership in the EFCA Network.

[d] Missionaries commissioned by the EFCA, church planters approved by the districts of the EFCA who hold ministerial credentials in good standing with the EFCA, and chaplains who hold ministerial credentials in good standing with the EFCA and are endorsed by the EFCA.

[e] Members of the General Board.

[f] Members of the faculties of Trinity International University who have been granted tenure by the EFCA.

2. Duration. Members of the Conference shall retain their membership in the Conference from one Conference to the convening of the next Conference.