Course: Foundations of Children's Ministry

An 8 session course draws from the Bible, history, and psychology to help you lay a good foundation for ministry with children. Begins March 14.  Enrollment now open!

Ministry training for someone just like YOU!

Now is a great time to get out of the church pew (or seat) and into ministry training that makes sense for you! Church Leadership Center provides a high-touch and technology-friendly approach to ministerial education for emerging church leaders.
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Train at a pace that works for you

We combine Zoom and online learning tools to better align with your busy schedule. We understand the value of your family time, that is why our Zoom sessions are short and the balance of course work can be completed around your schedule.

Study from the comfort of your home

We have made it possible for you to receive training from where you live. CLC participants stay rooted in their local church yet are able to interact and learn from fellow students from around the country.

A personal mentor as you are training

We intentionally connect you and your pastor/church leader who will walk with you through the entire CLC training experience. You won’t do this alone!

Financially Possible

Paying for education can get expensive quick! Not with CLC. Due to generous funding and partnerships with local churches you can go through our certified training experience at a fraction of higher education cost!

Seminary Credits

Participants who earn a Certificate of Completion will earn 15 graduate credits to attend an Associate Seminary or 30 credits to complete a Bachelor's degree at a regionally accredited Christian University.

You feel it, don't you?!

Jesus has been nudging you.

The Spirit has been whispering in your heart. Our Father has guided you along a path to growth in your Christian faith, and, more recently, deeper commitments of service and leadership in the church's ministries.

But how do you take next steps in further preparing your heart and mind, and deepening your competencies for ministry leadership? Seminary training is not for you, at least not at this time. Yet there is much you need to learn!

We at CLC are able to help you grow in your abilities for church leadership where you are right now. You can stay at your job. You can carry on with your current volunteer leadership opportunities. And, at the same time, you can take short, focused, helpful courses that will deepen your understanding of the Bible, broaden your knowledge of Jesus' work through the centuries in his church, focus your theological reflections on the central elements of our faith, and assist you in gaining new competencies for ministry leadership.

Whatever the current or future role you know you are being called to by Jesus and his people, we at CLC can partner with you to prepare you more fully.

Let's get started today!

The Christian Leadership Center is a community of lifelong learners who are growing in their abilities to demonstrate integrity of character, biblical knowledge, theological competencies, and quality pastoral and leadership skills for effective ministry. Participants are involved in ministerial vocations, volunteering, lifelong learning, and ministerial experiences that contribute to the preparation of pastoral and lay leaders for certification.
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three training pathways

CLC focuses on three equipping pathways that allow students to grow at their own pace and pursue higher levels of training according to their unique calling or interest.

>MLP

enrollment open

Ministry
Leadership
Program

> MLP is a 10 course program that will offer foundational competencies that will give participants confidence in their ministry leadership development. The experience is focused on well-crated education, intentional mentoring, and helpful accountability.
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>CLP

Christian
Living
Program

> CLP courses are four-week introductory and core courses designed to engage a student, foster lifelong learning, and prepare them to study at a higher level with our facilitated core programs such as MLP. These are personal enrichment courses available to the local church or market community that are affordable.
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>SMP

Specialized
Ministry
Program

> Most of what we do is customized for the church or local organizations, our leadership development work specializes in your needs and the goals of your church or organization. We provide short specialized courses, typically 4 weeks in length, on a number of topics such as evangelism, media management, worship leadership, children and youth ministry, church planting, etc.
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Our Mission

The Christian Leadership Center is a community of lifelong learners who are growing in their abilities to demonstrate integrity of character, biblical knowledge, theological competencies, and quality pastoral and leadership skills for effective ministry.

Participants are involved in ministerial vocations, volunteering, lifelong learning, and ministerial experiences that contribute to the preparation of pastoral and lay leaders for certification. The CLC has developed its core program based on the following concepts in the order in which they are presented:

Doing

Actively Ministers in the Church and/or in Business.

Being

Becoming Imago Dei in person and in practice

Knowing

Develop a central theological foundation

Why Us

The CLC training process is missional, incarnational and transformational.
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Our Mission

To activate the person in the pew to effectively participate in the missional impulse of Jesus Christ in their homes, workplace, and the local church.

Our Vision

To build a community of lifelong learners who will develop through the practice of ministry (Doing), measuring spiritual growth (Becoming) and by deepening core competencies through Biblical, Theological and Practical ministry courses (Knowing) to reinforce and ground the entire learning experience.

Our Commitment

Our commitment is to constantly encourage and posture our CLC Training to help individuals continue to “fan into flame the gift of God” (2 Timothy 1:6) and maintain that fire and passion of Jesus for the lost and the least in our world.