Church Planting is the Extreme Sport of Christian ministry. It’s challenging, often gut wrenching and requires a new set skills that go beyond conventional pastoral ministry. This major is designed to take you there.

The track is designed for the church planting student who is serious in succeeding with his or her church plant. It is a very comprehensive program, devoted to preparing the student through exposure to contemporary methodology, textbooks and successful church practitioners.

This track requires 18 hours from the courses listed below:

• LEAD 5103 Leadership: Theory and Principles …Or…
  PMIN 5723 Church Revitalization and Renewal
  PMIN 5613 Small Groups & Community
• PMIN 5423 Church Planter’s School. Or...
  PMIN 5323 Becoming a Missional Church
• PMIN 5913 Church Stewardship and Management
• Elective

^{Requires 6 hours from Research Curriculum}

• ^{RES 5803 Research Methods}
• RES 6913 Ministry Application Project

 ^{Requires 18 hours of Core Curriculum}

The church of this generation needs to look so much different than the church of our fathers. Today’s church must move outside the walls of the building and invade its community.

Ron Sylvia, Starting New Churches on Purpose