LifeSpirit Organization - Ministry
www.lifespirit.org
How
to become a LifeSpirit Minister Practitioner
Ministry
Training is handled by the LifeSpirit Theological
Seminary
Through the Lightwing Ordination Program.
The
Lightwing Ordination Program is here: https://lightwingcenter.org/minister_ordination/
The
Seminary home page is: www.LifeSpiritSeminary.org
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In
1974, after a series
of private Symposia at the University where several of us were or had
been
students, a small group of incipient New Agers formed what has become
the LifeSpirit
Congregational Church (until 1985, Libertarian Congregational
Church)
-- the LifeSpirit Collaborating Congregations, LifeSpirit Church or
LifeSpirit
Organization. Founding Trustee Rev. Ralph Fucetola JD (biogrf.htm),
was, at that time, beginning a law career,
representing small churches, holistic practitioners, alternative
enterprises
and political or social dissidents. Founding Trustee Rev. Kathy A.
Greene (biogkag.htm)
was beginning her exploration of alternative wellness
modalities. These activities continued as the ministry grew. Our exempt
status
was recognized in 1975 and a Group Exemption was issued in 1976.
The LCC currently
includes half dozen active congregations, providing New Age teaching
and
ministerial services, and such religious activities as Marriages,
Memorials,
Namings, Prayer Circles and traditional Solstice and Equinox
celebrations. At
the same time, our personal spiritual quests continue and broaden as
New Age
phenomena evolve.
The
Spirit of Life
quickens as we enter the New Millennium. For more links on the church
congregations and auxiliaries: http://www.lifespirit.org/lifesporgs.html.
By-Law
XXXX, adopted in
1996, provides the procedure for becoming a LifeSpirit Minister.
If you
believe sincerely that you are called by a Higher Power to minister to
the sick
and suffering, it is appropriate to become a "licensed and ordained"
Minister Practitioner under the oversight of a LifeSpirit affiliated
organization.
Lightwing
Center is a
LifeSpirit Local Congregation with a carefully prepared Ordination
Program that
can lead to Minister Practitioner ordination as a privately licensed
and
ordained wellness and spiritual care practitioner.
The
process for Students
of the Ministry:
(1)
Please review the www.LifeSpirit.org
web site, and especially the following pages:
Information for Ministers
Minister Practitioner FAQs
Church
History
(2)
Please consider
carefully whether you are called to the Ministry. The privileges and
immunities
of the ministry are based on long-standing legal practices and are
explained in
the ordination training through Lightwing.
Ordination will be denied to any who seek it for inappropriate
reasons.
(3)
You may email
lightwingcenter@gmail.com with "Ordination" in the subject line
and your background and contact information in the email.
(4)
You will be
contacted with information about the ordination training program.
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1.
Ministers shall always abide by the injunction, "non-aggression against
non-aggressors." 2.
Ministers shall, when acting on behalf of the Church, practice "Retreat
from the Evils of the World" and not seek confrontation with the
instrumentalities of coercion. 3.
Ministers shall be guided by the knowledge that Illumination is the
Goal of the Free; they shall expose illusion, coercion and falsity,
condemning these as violations of the LifeSpirit. 4.
Ministers shall, when ministering to others, always act with informed
consent and shall Do No Harm. |
The
Minister's
Certificate of Ordination provides the following limitations and
guidelines:
"The
Ordained Minister Practitioner is hereby Ordained and Directed by the
local
congregation, under its Rules, and with the approval of the Church
Trustees (who also have the authority to suspend or terminate such
ordinations)
under Church Rules and By-Laws, which limit the use of Church
exemptions by
such Ministers. The Ordained Practitioner is directed and authorized to
act
under the jurisdiction of the local congregation or its approved
auxiliary,
holistically ministering to the sick and suffering by prayer and
spiritual
means, so long as no drug material remedy is used, and so long as such
minister
is active in the local congregation. The practices of such Minister
shall
strictly conform to secular law."
The
Ordained Minister
Practitioner is one level of the Ministry and permits the Minister
Practitioner
to practice as a holistic minister using the healing skills for which
the Minister
Practitioner has been trained. As a professional the Minister
Practitioner is
authorized to oversee ministerial funds (which are strictly separate
from
secular, personal funds) and engage in the sacerdotal functions of the
ministry.
Minister
Practitioners
who exhibit a real commitment to the ministry may apply for the further
religious status of an Established Ministry.
By-Law
XXXX - Codified Process
for Establishing Ministries and New Local Congregations
1.
(a) When, in the opinion of the Local Congregation Pastor(s) a student
of the
ministry has qualified, then pursuant to By-Law XXXVI, such person,
upon
written request of such person and of the Local Congregation Pastor(s),
may be
appointed and ordained as a Minister Practitioner, under the auspices
of that
Local Congregation. The Local Congregation is responsible for
overseeing the
ministerial activities of the Minister Practitioner.
(b)
Any funds pertaining to ministerial activities shall be maintained in
Minister
Practitioner Accounts and expenditures from such accounts shall be made
solely
for proper ministerial expenses, stipends and allowances, pursuant to
rule or
resolution, or authorization of the Local Congregation Pastor(s).
2.
A Minister Practitioner who has demonstrated to the Local Congregation
and the
Church Trustees consistent ministerial activities in conformity with
all
applicable laws, rules and requirements, may be ordained as a full
Minister of
the Church upon written request of the Minister Practitioner and Local
Congregation Pastor(s). Such Minister shall continue to function under
the
oversight of the Local Congregation (and Paragraph 1 hereof), preparing
for the
establishment of a new Local Congregation.
3.
When such Minister has demonstrated the establishment of a local
congregation,
including the establishment of a Local Board of Trustees, upon written
request
of the Minister and local Trustees, the Church Trustees may establish
and
charter a new Local Congregation, with the approval of the Church
Congregation
of Elders, and no objection from any existing, active Local
Congregation,
pursuant to the Church By-Laws and Rules.
Adopted September 28, 1996.
Applications
for
Established Ministries are to be made through the Local Congregation to
the
Trustees of LifeSpirit Congregational Church. LifeSpirit Church teaches
that
forced vaccination and other imposed health care interventions violate
the
fundamental religious principle of Informed Consent and are contrary to
the
LifeSpirit. Ministers are expected to
uphold the Minister’s Code of Conduct.
The
Church Fundamental
Documents are here:
http://www.lifespirit.org/LifeSpiritCongregationalChurch.Fundamental.Documents.pdf
Our
Church Bona
Fides are here: http://www.lifespirit.org/LCC-bonafides.2019.pdf
Blessed
Be!
Kathy
Greene Fucetola,
Church Chair
Ralph Fucetola (Rev. Esnur)
Founders
Rev.
Ralph is President
of the Institute for Health Research: www.InHeRe.org
For further information on Rev. Ralph’s consulting practice:
http://www.lifespirit.org/Ministry%20Practices%20Consulting.html
www.systensprocessingintegration.com
www.professionalsafetydossier.com
rev.06.25.09
and 11
March 2020