The Pastoral Relations and Ordination Commission promotes and facilitates the recruitment, training, placement, approval, retention, and overall development of the most qualified and effective personnel for professional ministry, in accordance with God's call, as well as the most conducive work environment for their development. The main objectives of this commission are the following:

1. 1. To establish and foster means for churches to encourage promising candidates to choose ministerial vocations, to select those they judge to be most suitable for ministries, to guide, mentor, support and supervise candidates during their preparatory period and early years in ministry, and to provide scholarships and other financial assistance;

   2. To formulate the requirements and procedures for the recognition and ordination of personnel in the different ministerial vocations; to advise the churches in the implementation of these requirements and procedures; to guide the candidates throughout the process and to issue the corresponding ordination certificates; to revoke, for just cause, the ordination certificates, after giving the affected person the opportunity to be heard through the procedure established for that purpose;

   3. Advise churches and participate with them in the process of calling pastors and other ministerial personnel;

   4. Establish ethical standards for pastors and ministers that foster better relations among ministers and between ministers and churches;

   5. Establish and develop tools by which churches can be guided in evaluating the effectiveness of ministerial work;

   6. To mediate in disagreements and controversies that arise between ministers, between ministers and churches, and within churches;

   7. Promote the professional development of ministers through continuing education activities or others with similar purposes, in coordination with the Baptist Ministerial Council of Puerto Rico and other organizations related to evangelical work;

   8. To study the economic needs and other aspects related to the welfare of ministerial personnel and make appropriate recommendations to the bodies responsible for addressing these needs; and

   9. Study the needs of the work in terms of workers' salaries to determine the aid that the Baptist Churches of Puerto Rico will offer as a supplement to these salaries and the preparation of the annual budget.