Discover how to create an efficient and effective GAP Year,
Internship or Residency Program for your faith-based
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Many ministry leaders are transitioning their training programs to offer academic credit and degree pathways for their students. If you have a ministry internship, a Christian gap year program, a church residency, or other similar training program, you may be considering doing the same.
A recent survey of over one thousand job seekers showed that 55% of entry level job listings require three or more years of experience. That is a rise of nearly twenty percentage points from just a few years ago.
Emerging leaders have a host of options when it comes to professional training and ministry education. Bible schools and seminaries of all types and sizes have long been a trusted resource for those seeking ministry training. In more recent years, ministry internship, Christian gap-year, and church residency programs have grown in popularity and there is increasing demand for more frontline training programs. But rather than choosing between the academic and ministry training environments, why not offer a model that includes the best of both? Doing this will set you apart as a training program and give your students more complete training to launch them into ministry and leadership.
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Next generation leaders will likely need a degree at some point. You do not have to choose between hands-on training and college credit.
Having your church residency or ministry internship program offer college credit adds even more value to this experience as your program could also count towards a degree.
You are missing out if your church residency or ministry internship program offers resume-quality experience employers are looking for but does not offer college credit or degree pathways. And your students are missing out, as well.
You may discover that you can attract higher quality candidates when they can earn credit or even complete a degree while attending your program.
Your church residency or ministry internship program might produce great leaders, but are those leaders getting the academic credit they could be? There’s a way for your program to keep producing great leaders while also offering undergraduate and/or master’s degree pathways.
We help ministries design, build, and manage custom, academic-grade training programs to successfully launch the next generation of faith driven leaders, and connect them to accredited degree program pathways.
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