Ministry is enabled educationally in many ways-one of which is seminary education. Within our tradition we also have a strong belief in preparation for ministry. As a people, we have evolved ways of nurturing, examining, preparing and validating the calls to ministry people feel. The Region provides nurture and oversight to those preparing for a seminary education and entry into lifelong service as an ordained minister for the whole Body of Christ. This process of oversight and nurture is vital for this is where we begin the accountability of ministry to God.
Ministers continue to be accountable for behavior and for the ministry to which they are called.
The church must be accountable for how it responds to the needs for nurture and oversight. But the fact is God continues to call people into God's service. The church responds. The list of activities that take place every day that requires of us a leap of faith is almost impossible to complete. Yet there are many who do not take the time to think about their faith or to be thankful for those we trust and for the God who makes that trust possible.