"To train up
Christ-like disciples & church planters to see
the earth
transformed for the glory of His name."
Although the process for becoming a church planter depends a lot on the speed of your personal growth in character and ministry skills, we use a general process to give direction for those wanting to get involved in vocational church planting with Antioch. Its simplified version follows.
1. Get involved in
a LifeGroup
2. Intern as a LifeGroup Leader
3. Lead and Multiply a
LifeGroup
4. Participate in a Short-term Mission Trip
5. Attend
Antioch Training Schools
6. Apply to Join a Church Planting Team with
AMI
7. Attend Antioch Staff Values Training
8. Plant a Church!
This process generally takes two to three years before one is actually ready to set foot in their church planting destination. Again, it can take longer depending on personal sanctification, training requirements, team formation, and developing prayer and financial ministry partners.
Antioch Training School consists of two equipping tracks:
1. Elevate (Discipleship
Track)
2. 24:14 (Church Planting Track)
*students must complete the Elevate Track before taking the 24:14 Track
Class meets Friday evenings 6:30-10:00pm
The Elevate Track will train students to grow in six main areas:
1. Intimacy
with God
2. Knowing the Word of God
3. Making Disciples of
Christ
4. Evangelism
5. Living a Supernatural Lifestyle
6. Prayer & Fasting
The Elevate Track runs from August 2011 – May 2012
The 24:14 Track will also train students in:
1. Leadership
Training
2. Character and competencies needed for
church-planting
3. Cross cultural ministry
The 24:14 Track dates are still yet to be determined for 2012
Elevate: $1,400
24:14: $1,200
Students of the 24:14 track will also raise approximately $3,000 at the end of the semester for an overseas outreach trip
A $100 non-refundable deposit is due within 30 days of acceptance to the school and is applied to your tuition. The rest is due on the first day of class.
Contact Noelle Brison, ATS Administrator at noellebrison@acc-w.org
I am excited about your interest in
going to the next level in your kingdom development through our Antioch
Training Schools. Our schools for discipleship and church-planting will
provide you with an environment for building deep friendships around a shared
passion: becoming healthy, harvesting, disciples of Christ that host the
manifest presence of God. In our day, radical is simply being intentional
about the things that Jesus spent the majority of His time talking about and
doing. Our goal is to help you grow in making disciples as a lifestyle by
daily tapping into the heart of God, intentionally and boldly sharing the
gospel, and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.
I believe that God is turning hungry Christians into wholehearted revivalists at a faster pace than ever before. Our desire is to make revival people who reproduce revival churches all over the planet. If you are willing to bring a heart that is fully His, He will bring you the love, power, creativity, wisdom and compassion you need to bring a lost world face to face with God. Our prayer is that you will fall madly in love with Jesus as you journey on with us.
Antioch Training Schools Director
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