Resources
A library of helpful resources and services for church leaders
Please expand each section below to learn more.
Ministry Guides & Articles
- Church Merger Worksheet
- Writing an Effective Constitution
- Constitution Template
- Elder Qualifications Questionnaire
- Healthy Elder Board Dynamics
- Navigating Politics in the Church
- Effective Annual Leadership Retreats
- Starting a Second Language Service
- Steps to Building a Ministry Team
- Write a Letter to Your Tempted Self
District Video Resources
EFCA Texas-Oklahoma YouTube channel – a variety of helpful video resources and recordings of district events.
EFCA Ministry Resources
- EFCA Helps – an EFCA library of relevant resources for church leaders
- EFCA Blog – helpful perspectives from EFCA leaders
Credentialing
We offer ministry Licensing and Ordination as a way to affirm God’s call on a person’s life, to provide legal status in the exercise of their ministerial duties, and to help ensure the moral and theological integrity of our movement. Click HERE for information about EFCA credentialing or contact our Director of Credentialing, John Watson, at john@efcatxok.org to begin the process of being credentialed.
Ministry Leader Getaways
Employment Opportunities
For District Churches: Do you have an open position that you’d like us to share in our monthly Better Together Brief? Let us know!
EFCA Pastor Search – Connecting churches to pastoral candidates
EFCA Job Board – Find your next role within the EFCA
Insurance
Medical Insurance
To obtain information on our district medical insurance plan with Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, please contact Denese Shrum at denese@efcatxok.org.
Disability Insurance
The FCMM Benefit Plan provides Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), and Life with Accidental Death and Dismemberment (Life/AD&D) Insurance. Churches have the option to choose one of the Benefit Plans (Standard or Plus) for all eligible employees.
Retirement Plan
Since 1971, FCMM has provided retirement plans for EFCA pastors, staff, and missionaries. With a 403(b)(9) church retirement income account plan, they offer a variety of investment options, whereby participants can manage their own account or have others do it for them. FCMM also offers other types of employment benefits to EFCA churches including a Long-Term Disability Insurance Plan.
Partner Ministries
- Be Broken Ministries – helping individuals and families move from sexual brokenness to wholeness in Christ
- Christian Investors Financial – providing faith-based financial solutions that serve Kingdom expansion
- Dallas Theological Seminary – a premier seminary within our district
- FCMM Benefits & Retirement – benefits and retirement for EFCA ministers and missionaries
- GlobalFingerprints – child sponsorship through local churches around the world
- Immigrant Hope – low cost, reliable immigration help in a church setting
- Interim Pastor Ministries (IPM) – provides temporary pastors to strengthen churches during times of pastoral transition
- Pathways for Little Feet – reduces financial barriers and provides support for adoptive families
- ReachGlobal – the global missions arm of the EFCA
- ReachGlobal Crisis Response – mobilizing believers across the country to serve local churches and homeowners after crisis
- ReachNetwork – the church planting arm of the EFCA
- Respite Retreat at the River – an unhurried weekend for couples who are grieving the death of a child
- Trinity Evangelical Divinity School – the official seminary of the EFCA
Want to Learn More?
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Email:
multiply@efcatxok.org
Mailing Address:
EFCA TX-OK District
17424 W Grand Pkwy S #228
Sugar Land, TX 77479