MINISTRY ACADEMY
Ministry Concentration Options [MC]
To earn your Certificate in Christian Ministry (with Concentration) you need to earn 30 CEU total, with 15 CEU coming from required Core Courses and electives, and at least 15 CEU in one Ministry Concentration. Courses are continuously in development and will be added to relevant categories when available.
Administration
This ministry concentration is for elders, executive pastors, or directors in churches, church plants, or nonprofits interested in management or optimization of governing systems, finances, personnel, or projects.
Apostleship & 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 Revitalization
This ministry concentration is for elders, pastors, and church consultants interested in church revitalization i.e. helping to restore health, renewal, vitality, unity, vision, and leadership direction to an existing community.
Deliverance & Inner Healing
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral calling to help God's people find freedom, inner healing, trauma counseling, spiritual warfare, exorcism, and intervention for the spiritually oppressed.
Discipleship & Small Groups
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral calling but no 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 Business Development
This ministry concentration is for pastors, Christian leaders or entrepreneurs looking to launch their own ministry, whether an independent project, nonprofit business, or self-governed ministry within a local church.
Pastoral Care
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral calling, whether pastor, counselor, or life coach, with a specific interest in shepherding, leading, teaching, ministering to, and providing direction to God's people.
Teaching & Preaching
This ministry concentration is for those with a pastoral or teaching calling and interest in writing sermons, public speaking, expositional preaching, leading Bible studies, and encouraging God's people to action.