Est. Weekly Committment - 20+ hoursChurch Planter/Pastor

(2-Year Residency)

This residency is designed with the planter in mind. Others desiring to serve as a pastor will be required to understand and embrace church multiplication but will also receive a customized track to accommodate identified areas of focus such as Biblical Living, Worship, Executive, etc.

Tentative dates: September through June.

Materials cost for residency: $750.00
(Scholarships available as needed)

Application & Preparation

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Timeline

YEAR ONE: First Half

BILD Courses:
  • Interpreting the Word
Additional Texts:
  • Lectures to My Students by Spurgeon
  • God’s Big Picture by Roberts
Gospel Community:
  • Engage In A Specific Gospel Community
  • Identities: Learner, Missionary, Servant, Family
Local Church:
  • Participate In Corporate Gatherings
  • Begin To Identify Specific Areas Of Service Within The Church
  • Always Reforming, Always Replanting: Mission
  • Love Your Local Church: True. False. Pure. Impure.

YEAR ONE: Second half

BILD Courses:
  • Acts: Keys to the Establishment & Expansion of the First-Century Church
Additional Texts:
  • Center Church (Gospel and City Sections) by Keller
  • Preaching to the Heart by Keller
Gospel Community:
  • Statements And Strategies
  • Developing Leaders That Develop Leaders
  • Multiple Ways To Multiply
Local Church
  • Legal Issues
  • Always Reforming, Always Replanting: Strategy
  • You And: How The Gospel Makes And Multiplies Disciples
  • Preaching: Gospel Centered, One Sermon For Every Audience
Preparing To Plant:
  • The Hidden Life (Word And Prayer, Part 1)
  • Marriage And Family (Part 1: Marriage)
  • Assess Call, Evaluate Gifts
  • Possible Locations
  • Visioning: Formulating, Casting, Recruiting
  • Theological And Pastoral Questionnaire (Complete Over Summer)
  • Carefully read Church Planter by Darrin Patrick (Complete Over Summer)

    YEAR TWO: First Half

BILD Courses:
  • Pauline Epistles: Strategies for Establishing Churches
Additional Texts:
  • Church Planter by Patrick
  • Dangerous Calling by Tripp
  • You Can Change by Chester
Gospel Community:
  • Preparing Leaders: Call. Competency. Character. Chemistry.
  • Training Emerging Leaders With PDP’s
Local Church:
  • Always Reforming, Always Replanting: Systems And Process, Metrics And Celebration
  • Preaching: The Greatest Story Ever Told (The Redemptive Historical Method)
  • Preaching: Motivation Without Moralizing (Jesus Is The Hero)
  • Teach BILD Course
Preparing To Plant:
  • The Hidden Life (Word And Prayer, Part 2)
  • Marriage And Family (Part 2: Family)
  • Churches Planting Churches (Prep, Plant, Provide, Pace, Place)
  • Confirm Call
  • Confirm Location
  • Funding Strategies (Full, Partial, Bi-Vocational, And How)
  • Attend Acts 29 Bootcamp

YEAR TWO: Second Half

BILD Courses:
  • Essentials: Understanding the Essentials of Sound Doctrine
Additional Texts:
  • Center Church (Movement Section) by Keller
  • Harvard Business Review on Strategy
Gospel Community:
  • Keeping The Mission Central With Monthly Checks
  • Church Planting Through Multiplying GC’s
Local Church:
  • Mission And Metrics (Setting, Tracking And Celebrating Mission Priorities)
  • Always Reforming, Always Replanting: Family And Culture
Preparing To Plant
  • Complete Acts29 Application Process
  • Assessment Preparation And Assessment
  • Finalize Funding Strategy
  • Commissioning, Sending, Supporting