Incorporate Your Ministry

The next step to becoming an EFCA church is to incorporate your plant.  In most districts this is done very early in the process.  Check with your EFCA district office.

Filing the Articles of Incorporation is a fairly simple, straight forward process that only takes a couple of hours if you use an incorporation template.  It has been our experience that a church plant does not need to secure the services of a lawyer when they follow the incorporation template.  Nor do they need a constitution and bylaws.  They need district approval, three officers, and an address.

The one area the government is concerned about in incorporation is a dissolution clause.  The concern is if a church has tax exempt status, gathers assets and would dissolve, no individual or groups should personally profit.  Every state has laws governing this process. Every incorporation template should include a dissolution clause where assets are directed to the EFCA district.  To get an incorporation template, contact:

Your district office (template is free)

Or, if they do not have a template, contact:

www.startchurch.com (template is $27).  They have all 50 states.