New and continued ministerial membership in Rosedale Network requires a desire for continued membership, holding to a position of theology and doctrine compatible with Rosedale Network position, demonstrating a life-style compatible with Rosedale Network position, and at least one of the following involvements:

1. Serving as a pastor, associate/assistant pastor, overseer, or deacon in a Rosedale Network church.
2. Serving an agency, institution, board, or committee of Rosedale Network.
3. Being of retirement age¹ and having retired from a Rosedale Network church, institution, or agency with continued interest in Rosedale Network.
4. Serving in an active evangelistic or teaching ministry of the Word compatible with Rosedale Network.
5. Attending Rosedale Network functions, such as the annual conference and the Ministers’ Fellowship, regularly or frequently.

Ministers who are not involved² beyond a temporary transition in a ministry represented by ordination in a Rosedale Network context may ask for release³ from ministerial membership and credentials in Rosedale Network. After a five-year period of apparent non-involvement of a minister, the following procedure applies:

1. The Rosedale Network office sends to the minister a questionnaire designed to clarify the involvement or non-involvement of the minister.
2. The Executive Board processes the questionnaire and may present a recommendation to the Rosedale Network business meeting.
3. In the event of the minister failing to respond to the questionnaire or other inquiry, the Executive Board may proceed with a recommendation in the absence of a response.
4. Action may be taken by the Rosedale Network business meeting to discontinue the ministerial membership and credentials of a minister in response to the recommendation of the Executive Board or after other careful and prayerful consideration.

It is generally expected that a three-year period of a non-involvement constitutes cause for release from ministerial membership and credentials.

Rosedale Network ministers who are long-term pastors of non-Rosedale Network churches will automatically relinquish their Rosedale Network credentials after a period of three years (or less, at the discretion of the Executive Board), unless their church applies for Rosedale Network membership. Rosedale Network pastors may serve, however, as interim pastors in non-Rosedale Network churches.

¹Retirement age, for this purpose, is 62 or older. Exceptions can be considered in cases of disability.
²The term involve and its derivatives are used in this document in reference to the five points of involvement listed in the early part of this document.
³The term release, as used in this document, can mean voluntary or involuntary withdrawal of membership and credentials and may be expressed in actions in terms such as dismissal, revocation, or other synonyms.