MINISTRY CONCENTRATIONS [MC]
What ministry focus do you feel called to?
While knowing how your organization and roles fit into the global picture, you also need to know where your calling and gifting will best "fit" and get additional personal development and ministry training within that area of focus.
Administration
This ministry concentration is for elders, executive pastors, or ministry directors in churches, church plants, or nonprofits with an interest in management or optimization of governing systems, finances, personnel, or projects.
Church Planting
This ministry concentration is for those with an apostolic or evangelistic calling with a specific interest in bringing the gospel to, and establishing and developing new churches in, areas that are currently unreached.
Church Development
This ministry concentration is for elders, pastors, and church consultants with an interest in church revitalization i.e. helping to restore health, renewal, vitality, unity, vision, and leadership direction to an already existing community.
Discipleship & Groups
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral calling but without interest in management or preaching. The focus is shepherding, teaching, counseling, and mentoring individuals and small discipleship groups.
Evangelism & Missions
This ministry concentration is for those with an evangelistic calling and an interest in being a local or foreign missionary, or in involvement with leading God's people to greater evangelistic efforts locally or abroad.
Ministry Development
This ministry concentration is for pastors, Christian leaders or entrepreneurs looking to launch their own ministry, whether as an independent project, a nonprofit business, or a self-governed ministry within a local church.
Pastoral Care (Counseling)
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral calling, whether pastor, counselor, or life coach, etc. with a specific interest in shepherding, leading, teaching, ministering to, and providing direction to God's people.
Pastoral Care (Deliverance)
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral calling and interest in helping God's people find freedom, inner healing, trauma counseling, spiritual warfare, exorcism, and strategic intervention for the demonically oppressed.
Teaching & Preaching
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral or teaching calling with a specific interest in writing sermons, public speaking, expositional preaching, leading Bible studies, and encouraging God's people to action.