Membership Eligibility

All Christians and Christian organizations are eligible for membership.  FIRST, CFCI IS NOT A RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION.  Since CFCI is not a religious denomination, churches and religious organizations should feel free to join if they believe their mission and goals are the same or similar to those of CFCI.  Since we are not a denomination, our organization will never be in competition with your current organization.  Denominational churches join because they want to have a place to contribute to the establishment and building of churches all over the world, and they just simply believe in what we are doing as we train and assist churches to reach their God-ordained potential.   

If you are a credential holder (license or ordained) in your current organization, receiving credentials from CFCI will make you a dual credential holder.  You will not need to relinquish your current credentials with your current organization.  If you are a current credential holder with your denomination and choose to receive credentials with CFCI, CFCI will honor your past ordination and issue credentials to you.  Credentials are renewed each year to remain in good standing with the organization. 

Why CFCI? 

The primary purpose of CFCI is to function as a central point for Christian fellowship for churches or Christian Organizations; to be a place where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and taught; to provide a setting for mutual fellowship and support between churches; to provide a central point for coordinating the actions and activities for the Fellowship; provide a central responsible source for ordaining ministers; to establish and build churches; to sponsor missionary activities; to provide counsel, guidance and mentoring for churches and ministers within the Fellowship; to provide an avenue for church training; and to host an annual gathering of the Fellowship of Churches for the purpose of worship and to conduct the business of the Fellowship.  The mission of Concord shall be developed through four primary directives of the organization, namely:

1.  Assembling a group of churches and Christian organizations, or establishing churches to become partners in the ministry effort.  By partnering with CFCI, each church maintains its own set of values, traditions, and practices, as long as they are not in conflict with the Core Values of CFCI. 

2.  Establishing a Christian Education Ministry for people of all ages through a Department of Education, and the training of Christian workers in a manner that fulfills their purpose. 

3.  Focus on Missions and Evangelism that is designed to seek and meet the needs of all people regardless of race, color, or gender, in a physical, financial, emotional, and spiritually context.  CFCI will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, or physical disability; however, CFCI reserves the right to make judgment of an interested group’s religious practices in order to ensure that it is a Christian congregation or a Christian Organization and that it abides by Holy Scriptures as interpreted by the organization. 

4.  Establishing a centralized system of management for the purpose of providing assistance; ordinations; establishing new church organizations; discipline; cooperative endeavors; and acting as a “spiritual covering” for ministries and organizations who have none.