Grants
Sustaining Pastoral Excellence (SPE) offers grants out of three streams:
*Descriptions of all grants and the appropriate application forms to download can be found on each of the three streams listed above.
Pastors, missionaries, and chaplains who are eligible for SPE funding will demonstrate the following qualifications:
- Actively serving in a Covenant church or approved ministry with at least two years of ministry experience
- Currently holding an active Covenant credential (Covenant ministers holding a bi-vocational license, who completed the Vocational Excellence class. Ministers with retired credentials are not eligible.)
- In good standing with the Covenant Ministerium (including the payment of conference and national ministerial dues for at least the last two years, completion of a ministerial profile within the last three years, a current Vocational Growth Tool, in collegial relationships, and membership in an ECC church.
- Grants are available every other year with a lifetime cap of three grants
Completed grant applications must include supporting documentation and materials that describe the desired experience.
Unless otherwise specified, grants are only available for credentialed Covenant clergy. All persons using grant funds for an event must meet this criterion. SPE is not able to provide funding for a non-clergy-person and/or a clergy spouse.
Complete applications for self-selected grant opportunities will be considered as they are received.