Procedure for Adopting New Members
The application procedure is designed to make possible four rounds of adoptions of new members per year.
An applicant
will normally receive
a response to his or her application not later than three months after submission of all formal application requirements.
Please notice that there are different kinds of membership - if you don't know which one suits you, you should read the
description of the different kinds of membership first -
click here. You can
download the IAMS leaflet here.
An application for individual membership should consist of
Duly filled Application Form
CV
Letter from two sponsors (IAMS members or other missiologists)
An application for
associate membership should consist of
Duly filled Application Form
CV
Letters of Recommendation by doctoral supervisor and a IAMS member
An application for
corporate membership should consist of
Duly filled Application Form
Annual Report or equivalent
Please
submit
application forms to IAMS
together with the necessary documentation for acceptance, either with ordinary
mail
to
IAMS, P. O. Box 9103, NL- 6500 HD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
or or via e-mail
to
iams@missionstudies.org.
You can download the application forms for membership here. The files are available in Word format.
Be sure to check both the
Criteria for membership as well as the above mentioned application requirements.
1. When
the application is received, a letter of confirmation will be sent to the applicant explaining the application procedure and stating when the applicant can expect an answer to the application.
2. When all documentation is received, a recommendation for acceptance or rejection is made by the secretariat.
3. If the applicant clearly does not meet the criteria for membership, the application need not go to the executive, but the secretariat will inform the applicant immediately.
4. Approximately every 3 months the list of recommendations is e-mailed to the executive committee members.
5. Executive members are to respond to the list of recommendations as soon as possible and not later than 30 days upon reception.
6.
7.
In exceptional cases, if any one executive member requests, an application can be put on hold until the next ordinary executive meeting.
8. The executive meetings will normally only deal with disputed applications.
9. The applicants will be informed about the decision of the Executive by the secretariat. If accepted, the applicant will be asked to pay the membership fee within 30 days.
When the membership fee has been paid, an applicant is formally a member of IAMS. Click here to see the IAMS payment policy.