*Offered as one cohort  with SENTral House (residency) and  Metro area (non-residency) participants

Apprenticeship

Nine-month training circuit for missional leadership formation.

Training in: Spiritual Formation, Common Community, Missional Living, Leadership Development

Ongoing discipling and training by Brad Brisco and Lance Ford as well as monthly training by guest trainers who are practitioners from around the country.  Every six weeks we will have a key author/thought leader in as our guest trainer. (e.g. Alan Hirsch, Michael Frost, Neil Cole, Reggie McNeal) (we will piggyback this speaker from our quarterly public training seminars--explained below) The interns will experience quality time with these leaders in an exclusive setting.

Missional Intensives-offered to broader public

One day workshop/seminars offered 6 times throughout the year. We will bring in major authors, thought leaders, practitioners and offer these as public sessions. Registration fees from these events should cover the cost for the time these leaders will spend with our interns at SENTral House.

MAIN FEATURES

Thriving

At all levels the 3-fold life of Spiritual Formation, Common Community, and Missional Living is  learned and practiced. 

• Helping to birth and nurture the 21^st Century Church.

• Equipping leaders and churches to multiply, and transform their neighborhoods and communities

• Providing contextualized training and action-learning systems (through active experience by engagement in mission)

• Centered on innovative entrepreneurship in relation to church and mission

• Fivefold ministry and leadership affirmed and developed

• Mission informs everything we do

• Sustained from a Discipling culture

Our training philosophy forms a vital part of our DNA

Missional context is primary 

Interns are placed in edgy learning environments

Action-reflection learning model

 Relational empowerment

Taught primarily by practitioners

Inspiration, then information

We value imagination as a resource for leadership

We aim at leadership development, not just skill development

Multi-dimensional leadership systems

Rigorous intellectual engagement

METHODOLOGY

We will engage our mission…

By creating environments where the Good News of the Kingdom of God will be awakened and developed in His people for the sake of the surrounding community

By raising up and shaping new generations of missional leaders

By focusing on training for a distinctly pioneering type of ministry and leadership

By helping birth and stimulate a distinctive missional understanding and approach to church

By actively stimulating innovation and creativity in any and every way

By coordinating an energetic community/network of leaders and activists focused on the task of mission

PERFORMANCE

We deliver the above by…

Developing and operating internship style training in various population zones.

Operating a dynamic relational network comprising innovative pioneering leaders and practitioners in every region that we operate

Offering ongoing support and consultations to the broader C&MA and on issues relating to pioneering missional practice.

Undertaking active research and development in relation to cultural trends, futurology, issues of church and its context, pioneering leadership, and evangelism.

Services are therefore delivered primarily through the following activities…

Internships

Intensives

Regional networks

Training Days

Hosting active missional experiences

Conferences and think-tanks

Coaching and Mentoring

Consultations

Resource Development