Candidacy is run by your conference.
The universal path is the same; the door is local.
Everything else on this site is true across the United Methodist Church. But the formal process — the summit, the forms, the people — belongs to your annual conference. Here are the ones we've mapped so far.
Rio Texas Annual Conference
Rio Texas is the United Methodist annual conference covering much of central and south Texas, from the Hill Country to the border.
See the on-rampNorth Georgia Annual Conference
North Georgia's discernment is coordinated through the Center for Clergy Excellence, which frames the call broadly: we are all called by God — some to ordained ministry, others to lay ministry, and some to other service to God and the world.
See the on-rampThe door is the same everywhere.
Even if your conference isn't mapped here yet, the way in is consistent across the church: talk with your pastor, and ask who your district superintendent is. That one question opens the candidacy process anywhere in The United Methodist Church.