Are you interested in finishing a Master's Degree or working on a Doctor of Ministry?

Two schools grant graduate credits for students who complete the Certificate in Strategic Pastoral Leadership.  Please contact the graduate school of your choice for more information.

          Evansville, Indiana

          http://www.mdivs.edu/

          Northwest Graduate School

          Seattle, Washington

          http://www.nwgs.edu/

For those pastors who may wish to enter a graduate school program the following is suggested.

            The reading volume approximates four credit hours in a doctoral program.  Assigned to each participant are 1,016 pages of reading from the required book list and another 214 pages of hand-out material.  A graduate student would need to supplement the above with another 200 pages of reading for four graduate school credits.  If he or she wished eight graduate school credits, another 1,400 pages should be selected from the “recommended” list.

            A one page book review, using a “template” supplied by the graduate school, should be prepared for each book and submitted when the course is finished.  Additionally, a brief evaluation of the hand-out material should be submitted.

            In addition to the above written reports, each participant is asked to submit the following written projects:

            1.  A “Personal Constitution” stating one’s life calling and purpose, personal mission statement, and a plan for personal growth in five areas:  spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual and relational.

            2.  A summary of one’s giftedness, preferred leadership style, stress inducers, and mentoring requirements.  A statement of one’s current job description should be submitted along with a clear vision of a “preferred” job description based on giftedness and strengths.

            3.  A strategic plan for the local church which accounts for the strategic plans of the other churches in the city and seeks collaborative efforts for city reaching.

            Additional tuitions and fees shall be established by the graduate school.