Colloquy for Comissioned Church Workers
If you are serving in ministry and want to become a rostered minister of religion, this process offers participants training to achieve the theological and professional standards of LCMS membership.
The word “colloquy,” from the Latin “colloquium,” means “a conversation.” As used in the LCMS, the word in its narrow sense refers specifically to the theological examination which is the culmination of the colloquy process and which also touches on the applicant’s background, history, etc. in order to determine his or her fitness for ministry and whether or not to certify him or her to receive a call and initial placement into the commissioned ministry of the LCMS. In its wider sense, the term colloquy refers to the entire colloquy process, delineated in the policy manual, by which a person may be called and rostered as a Minister of Religion—Commissioned in the LCMS.