Guidelines - 1.3 Membership Requirements
2026-07-01
Be a professing Christian living by Biblical principles. Every
adult on the membership must affirm the following member
Statement of Faith:
• Believe in the triune God of the Bible. He is one God Who is
revealed in three distinct Persons—God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit. GENESIS 1:26 | LUKE 1:35, 3:21–22 | 2
CORINTHIANS 13:14 | MATTHEW 28:18–20
• Believe Jesus Christ was God in the flesh and continues to be
such even after His resurrection—fully God and fully man. He
was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross to pay
the penalty for our sins, was bodily resurrected on the third day,
and is now seated in the heavens at the right hand of God the
Father. ISAIAH 7:14, 9:6 | MATTHEW 1:22–23, 26:64 | MARK 16:19 | LUKE
24:38–40 | JOHN 1:1–2, 1:14, 1:29, 2:18–21, 5:18, 8:46 | ACTS 2:32–33 | 1
CORINTHIANS 15:3–4, 15:20–21 | 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 | COLOSSIANS
1:15–20, 2:9 | HEBREWS 1:1–4, 4:14–15, 7:26, 9:11–14, 10:10–12 | 1 PETER
2:22–24 | 1 JOHN 3:5
• Believe that all people have sinned and fallen short of God’s
glory and can be saved from eternal death only through faith in
Jesus Christ, Whose atoning death and resurrection secure for
us eternal life. JEREMIAH 17:9 | JOHN 3:3, 14:6, 20:30–31 | ROMANS
3:9–11, 3:23, 5:12–21, 10:8–13 | EPHESIANS 2:8–9
• As a community of Christians helping other Christians with
their medical bills, every adult on a membership must attend
a Biblical, Christian church regularly (at least three out of four
weeks per month that your health or weather permits). If it is not
possible for you to regularly attend a Biblical, Christian church,
please submit a letter giving the details. HEBREWS 10:25
Note: Fellowships, churches, temples, wards, and denominations
that fall outside of Biblical, Christian faith—such as the Church of
Scientology, Unitarian, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints— do not qualify for the church
attendance requirement.
• Believe you are to bear one another’s burdens.
GALATIANS 6:2 | PHILIPPIANS 2:4
• Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that
abusing any substance is sin. Empowered by the indwelling
Holy Spirit, you are committed to living a holy and consecrated
life in which you abstain from illegal drugs, legal or prescribed
substance abuse, recreational marijuana, and tobacco (the
ministry allows a rare celebratory cigar or pipe).
ROMANS 13:1 | 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12
• Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that
drunkenness is a sin. Empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit,
you are committed to living a holy and consecrated life in which
you limit consumption of alcohol to moderate amounts and do
not drink to drunkenness or cause another brother or sister in
Christ to stumble. EPHESIANS 5:18
• Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that
God gifted you your biological sex, and that manifesting any
identity outside of your God-given biological sex is a sin.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:18
• Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and
any sexual activity outside traditional, historically Biblically
orthodox marriage as designed by God between one biological
man and one biological woman, is a sin. Empowered by the
indwelling Holy Spirit, you are committed to living a holy and
consecrated life in which you live a life in conformity with your
God-given biological sex, and abstain from any sexual activity
outside of traditional, historically orthodox Biblical marriage.
GENESIS 1:27, 2:24 | MATTHEW 19:5
• Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and agree to
practice good health measures in accordance with that belief.
1 COR 6:19-20
• Keep your membership active by fully funding your Share Wallet
and sending your Share each month. If financial difficulty is the
cause of these problems, assistance might be available through
the Sponsorship Program, see section 5.13 Sponsorship.
LUKE 16:10
• Agree that when you have a dispute with a fellow Christian, and
your fellow Christian is willing to submit that dispute to fellow
believers for resolution, you are not to sue each other in the
civil courts or other government agencies. If you initiate a legal
proceeding against REDEEM HealthShare Ministry or Samaritan
Ministries International, you will disqualify yourself from
membership. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-8
• Submit your Membership Continuation Agreement, which
includes the Accountability Verification each year, confirming
that you are still meeting the membership requirements.
PROVERBS 10:9
• During the initial application process, you will forward
your pastor, church officer, or person of accountability the
Accountability Verification form. This individual must complete
and submit the form confirming that you meet the above
requirements. Your membership will be in suspended status until
your pastor, church official, or person of accountability submits
the required Accountability Verification and REDEEM HealthShare
approves it. REDEEM HealthShare may decline to approve your
Accountability Verification if it determines, at its discretion, that
a conflict of interest exists or that approval would undermine the
purpose of member accountability. HEBREWS 13:17
Nationality or Citizenship Requirements:
Any of the following individuals may join REDEEM HealthShare:
• U.S. Citizens
• Those who possess a U.S.-issued Social Security Number and a
valid Identification Card issued by a U.S. government agency
• Those who possess a U.S.-issued Individual Taxpayer
Identification Number (ITIN) and who also have a government-
issued Identification Card issued by Mexico, Canada,
Guatemala, or the United States and who have a United States
mailing address
If at any time you no longer meet all these membership
requirements, you must notify REDEEM HealthShare immediately.
Your health status has no effect on your eligibility for membership.
However, there are limitations on the sharing of Needs for some
conditions that existed before membership or during a waiting
period. For a detailed explanation of the types of Needs that are
eligible or not eligible for sharing, see section 3. Sharing Expenses.
To be eligible to submit Needs for sharing, you must meet all the
requirements of membership including being up to date with all
monthly Shares, and the Need must not result from behavior that
violates membership requirements.