Graduate Studies

Build a strong ministry network, unlock new leadership skills, and engage with professors who are invested in your success. With a strong biblical foundation and practical application, the graduate degree program offers two primary types of learning experiences:

• 8 week online classes
• 1 in-person week-long intensive course per semester on a CCCB campus or remotely.

Upgrade Your Ministry

Russell School of Ministry is dedicated to excellence in and out of the classroom. Classes are taught by professors who are both scholars with a high view of scripture and professional leaders in church and parachurch organizations. The program is accredited by the Association of Biblical Higher Education (www.abhe.org).

Unlock New Skills

Graduate classes are taught by professors with educational expertise and a passion for ministry. Practical assignments are emphasized in all classes. The assignments are designed to apply classroom knowledge to real-world application in your ministry context and leadership development.

Balance and Build

Graduate courses are designed for flexibility and minimal time away from your ministry. With only five days of on-campus time each semester, multiple locations to choose from, and additional options for missionaries and students outside the US, it has never been easier to continue your education while continuing to serve right where you are.

Afford Your Ambition

Central Christian College of the Bible is committed to providing innovative ministry education in multiple locations for the Christian Church. By studying with Russell School of Ministry, there is no need to choose between cost and quality. With a low cost per credit hour and multiple payment options available, you can get quality training at an affordable cost.

Program Overview

• Cost: $7,500 per year
• Credits: 36
• Format: Full-time
• Time to Completion: 2 years

Potential Career Outcomes

• Leader in a church, community, or social service agency
• Executive, Manager, or Director in nonprofit and for-profit organizations
• Leader of a parachurch organization or missions agency
• Missionary serving in country

Program Information

• The MA in Ministry Leadership is a 36-hour program designed to build upon your prior education by advancing your leadership capacity and helping you gain new skills to lead your team, grow your community, and sharpen your focus.
• Leadership Core: 18 hours
• Ministry Electives: 15 hours
• Capstone: 3 hours
• Students can take all 15 ministry elective courses in one area to earn a concentration.
• Available Concentrations: Preaching

Program Outcomes

1. Foundational Knowledge: The ability to identify and articulate the essential content of various academic disciplines.
2. Analytical Thinking: The ability to analyze carefully and critically information and ideas from multiple sources and perspectives.
3. Application of Knowledge: The ability to use information and concepts from studies in multiple disciplines in academic, personal, and ministry contexts.
4. Cultural and Social Understanding: The ability to recognize and appreciate one’s own cultural and social traditions as well as the ability to understand and appreciate cultural, religious, and political diversity within the human experience, both locally and globally
5. Effective Communication: The ability to make effective use of language and other symbolic systems essential to academic, personal, and ministry success.
6. Ethical Decision-Making: The ability to make judgments with respect to values and conduct and to evaluate the effects of these choices.
7. Servant Leadership: The ability to understand and apply the principle that leadership emerges from those whose primary motivation is a deep desire to serve others.

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