 
| Description of a Bi-vocational Minister |
| Bi-vocational Ministry is performed by an individual who is partially supported in a ministerial role by a church. |
Usually the person described as bi-vocational has at least two paying jobs concurrently.
One or more of those is church-related.
The non-church responsibility often provides the individual’s major income.
The following scenarios are given for clarification:
- A person who works at a paid secular job from the home, or is a fulltime student and receives partial salary from church-related work is seen as bi-vocational.
- A person such as a military, hospital, or institutional chaplain who carries a second non-church job for which there is remuneration is considered bi-vocational.
- If a second source of income is from a denominational role, and partial salary is from church-related work, that person is seen as a bi-vocational.
- If that second job is in a ministerial role within the same church, the person would not be considered bi-vocational.
- Some financial support for the church-related responsibility constitutes bi-vocational, as distinguished from volunteer.
- The person who has support from another source and serves in some paid church-related capacity is seen as bi-vocational.
- The person who has support from another source and serves in some church-related capacity with no remuneration is seen as a volunteer.
- Some may call a minister who is not fully supported by a church “part-time,” but that is not usually accurate or fair.
- The bi-vocational pastor who serves “full-time” in both the ministerial & secular role, has a “dual ministry. [Ministry in the Church Field and Ministry in the Secular Work Field].
- They certainly are not Part-time.
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| Description of a Smaller Church |
- For clarification, A Smaller Church is defined as having 125 or less average attendance in Sunday School
- In the absense of a Sunday School, 125 or less in the Primary Worship Service
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