2024-2025 Catalog

 

Specialization in Church Planting and Multiplication

Wesley Seminary’s specialization in Church Planting and Multiplication is designed to equip pastors, church leaders, and current or future church planters with the training needed to start a new church, campus, or fresh expression of incarnational ministry, and/or to strengthen established churches or reinvigorate struggling churches by infusing them with a biblical vision for a healthy multiplying church.

In addition to the Master of Divinity learning outcomes, students with a specialization in Church Planting and Multiplication should, with graduate-level competency, be able to:

  • Analyze cultural and contextual trends to maximize missional effectiveness.
  • Create strategies for developing fresh expressions of church.

 

Specializations

Specialization in Church Planting and Multiplication (15 credits)

This specialization consists of four courses: one required course and three courses from Church Planting and Multiplication electives.

Required Course

Must take this course.
MISS-550Foundations of Church Planting and Multiplication

3

Church Planting and Multiplication Electives

Must take at least 9 hours.
MISS-530Preparing Leaders to Plant Churches

6

MISS-540Evangelism in Context

3

MISS-552The Calling, Character, and Competency of a Church Multiplier

3

MISS-553Initiating New Church Plants, Sites, and Fresh Expressions

3

MISS-554Maximizing the Post-Launch Phase

3

CONG-525Newcomer Integration

3

LEAD-558Missional Growth and Multiplication

3

LEAD-565Emerging Trends in Church Multiplication

3

MIN-559Staying Power: Leading a Church Through Change

3

Electives

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Elective

3

Total Credit Hours:75

Indiana Weselayan