A new or recent church plant is the setting for the apprenticeship. The student serves as a part of the core or leadership team of the plant, commensurate with experience and ability. This serves as the student's leadership in ministry practicum experience. Serves as the field supervisor. The purpose is to give students personal direction in the development of the strategy and plans for their own church plants.
Mentors are persons who have had personal experience in the type of plant the student is planning.
Mentorship for the M.Div. With Off-Campus Internship and the M.A.I.M. with Domestic Church Planting tracks take place in the field phases of those programs. A Wide Community of Cooperation Looking at an opportunity of world-size dimension we must together help a new generation of churches find creative expressions to impact our world for Christ. Because the purpose of the CPI program is to prepare students to be effective church planters, it works in cooperation with the church planting strategies of local churches, associations, state conventions and the mission boards of our Convention. Iseeks to connect students with sponsoring churches and denominational support structures while in the program so that they will have a seamless transition from the seminary to the field upon graduation.