Our weekly Scripture Memory Plan for 2010
Prayer Initiative
Pastor Chris Castaldo introduced us to a prayer initiative at College Church. In conjunction with this, we have introduced a section of the website and electronic prayer e-news.
Today's Evangelical Church: A Lay of the Land
If you missed Collin Hansen's informative Foundations Course on the ever changing modern evangelical church, click the files below to access a voice recording of the two sessions from January 2009.
Collin Hansen is an editor at large for Christianity Today and author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists. He is pursuing the MDiv at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is an intern for Pastor Chris Castaldo.
Book List
Looking for a good book on a particular subject? Click here for our our new Book List page!
Coffee and Careers
Join Interim Pastor of Congregational Life Brandon Levering for coversation, Scripture and focused prayer every Tuesday morning (starting September 29) at 9 a.m. in the Narthex. Click here for more Job Transition Events.
Internship Program
The internship program identifies, equips, and utilizes men and women for service in the church, and prepares them for significant and potentially full-time, vocational ministry. Interns are often full or part-time students interested in learning more about the inner workings of the church and in working alongside College Church staff.
Interns gain practical experience in service at a church and first-hand exposure to how a church functions and is structured. They also benefit from the discipleship with their pastoral supervisor. Among other things, interns have opportunities to lead Bible studies, teach in classes, direct ministry areas, and help organize events.
Contact Pastor Jay Thomas for more details.
Ministry Residency
The ministry residency is a two-year, full-time postgraduate course of study and training, intended to prepare pastoral leaders for full-time work in the church. This program is “biblically rooted, rigorous in learning and practice, and highly intentional,” as described by our former Senior Pastor Kent Hughes.
As a church, we are committed to training and mobilizing pastoral leaders for kingdom expansion. That is why we believe that this program is essential: just as a teaching hospital provides medical residents with further clinical training, College Church provides a residency-type ministry training within the context of the local church. The local church provides exposure to the realities of pastoral ministry and in-depth ministry training in a way that formal education cannot. We desire to equip pastoral leaders for the frontlines of the church—whether as pastors to local churches, church-planters, or missionaries—in a distinctive way.
The residency has two program elements: (1) Ministry Training and (2) Mentored Ministry.
Contact Pastor Jay Thomas for more information.