Your church, your program,
your mentors

Your church can incorporate academic degrees within its own training and adult education programs.

Churches can:

  • Have a small group audit Redemption courses.

  • Incorporate Redemption degrees or certificates as part of their leadership training process.

  • Offer to reimburse their members who they encourage to pursue a Redemption degree.

  • Recommend specific mentors their students should use.

  • Have their own members (or friends) with theological doctorates mentor people in the Redemption program.

If your church is interested in partnering with Redemption Seminary, please contact us to begin discussing the details.

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Church or Ministry Training Program

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Preserving Church Control

The church (or ministry) maintains doctrinal control over the program and can direct student growth within their ministry context. The church chooses what mentors (perhaps their own staff) meet the standards of their overarching church program. If a new member joins the church who has taken some Redemption courses previously with mentors outside of the church’s approved list, they may still earn their Redemption degree, and it is up to the church to determine what they will allow to count toward completing their training program. The church program may require students in this situation to retake such courses with one of their approved mentors. In this circumstance, the student may be able to use the opportunity to improve their course grade.

Since the church designs its own overarching program, it may require other activities and requirements (pillars) such as weekly peer group meetings or additional meetings with their mentor professor to complete their program.

Churches are limited to embedding predefined Redemption degree programs since Redemption maintains accreditation compliance standards in such a way that optimizes cost savings for churches and students. However, mentors are responsible to help students personalize their work to suit their gifting and their ministerial contexts. So a church that provides mentors for its members can tailor the student work to the needs and focus of the church’s ministry. 

Financial Benefit

Churches can bolster compensation for their staff members if they become Redemption Seminary mentors, since they will be paid per student by Redemption Seminary. The church could also choose to subsidize the tuition for their members or charge additionally for training outside of the Redemption degree. For example, a church can offer their own weekly meetings that track with Redemption course mentor sessions but allow peers within the church program to encourage each other and study together. A church could even schedule the terms that they want their parishioners to register for specific courses to ensure specific groups work through the material together. Students will still be able to work ahead, if they desire, since they have all the program materials available (for all their courses) when they enroll in the program.

Staff Benefit

Church employees who are also Redemption mentor professors receive all the benefits of other mentor professors, including access to Logos Library packages corresponding to their program(s), and training by an associate dean.