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Reliant values a diverse workforce with all the unique qualities that individuals of various backgrounds and experiences can offer in ministry. Reliant is committed to providing employees with the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential and to basing employment-related decisions upon valid job/ministry-related factors including the employee's or applicant's demonstrated ability, experience, potential, and commitment to the specific ministry of Reliant. Reliant will not discriminate in employment decisions based on race, color, gender, age, national origin, marital status, veteran status, or disability. This applies to recruitment, hiring, training, selection, promotion, and all other actions and conditions of employment such as compensation, benefits, termination, and disciplinary measures.

As a church-based missions agency, Reliant does hold that all of the staff, volunteers, missionaries and employees we hire are Christians. Reliant staff, volunteers, missionaries and employees must be therefore in agreement with the Reliant Statement of Faith. All Reliant missionaries and must also hold to the Standards of Conduct as listed in the Field Manual including the Reliant Code of Ethics.

As a ministry which partners broadly in the Christian community, we also recognize that the individual churches and ministries we partner with will have different theological viewpoints on leadership. Reliant does leave decisions about women in church leadership positions up to the discretion of the local church. However, Reliant also provides equivalent categories for equal compensation within those churches that hold to a theological position of elders or pastors being a male-specific role. (See Missionary Staff Levels for more information.)