It offers a week of concentrated classroom study coupled with additional assignments at home to equip congregational leaders for ministry without uprooting them from current responsibilities.
Students can begin the program with any of the three modules of courses.
A long with the week of concentrated study on the RBI campus each year and the additional personal study, students are mentored in a supervised ministry experience in their local settings. This generally takes place between the second and third years in the program. Additional reading and writing assignments are spread throughout the school year. An outline will be given by each instructor indicating when assignments are due, and some reading assignments may be completed before arriving on campus. IPS is not available on an audit-only basis.