Getting Started and Ministry Skills Courses
Getting Started and Ministry Skill Courses
Welcome to the Getting Started and Ministry Skill folder. This folder is a great place for you to start. Scrolling through the courses in this folder, you notice the Multiplying Christian Leaders Course (1 CDS Module). This course is highly recommended because you will learn how to multiply Christianity.
Another popular getting started course is called the Calling and Confidence Course (1 CDS Module)
Are you considering your calling? This one-credit course will help you reflect on your gifts, calling, and temperament for ministry. Click here to review and/or enroll in the class.
Maybe you are here to become an officiant, such as a Wedding Officiant; click here to enroll in the Wedding Officiant Skill Course to get started. We offer an ordination path featuring officiant and minister clergy credentials recognized worldwide. Click here to review the ordination path. Many of these skill courses in this folder can be used as core cores in the clergy credentialing program at Christian Leaders Alliance.
Degree Program?
If you are looking for our degree program, this folder is not the right place for you, but here is a quick link to get you there: Gain Admission to a Degree Program.
If you want to pursue an Associate or Bachelor's degree, please explore the Leadership Excellence School Admissions course. This course serves as your orientation and guide toward enrollment in a degree program. Click here to check out the Degree Program.
We aim to aid your growth as a Christian leader through Christian education, credentialing, and ordination.
Multiplying Christian Leaders will not only get you started at Christian Leaders Institute, but you will also learn what it means to be a Christian Leader and how you can walk a path to become a difference-maker in our world!
This Christian Wedding Officiant Skills class is a one-credit class that gives you the skills needed to officiate a wedding. Included in the training are some teachings about the meaning of marriage from the Christian worldview perspective. After you complete this course, you will be allowed to complete the Licensed Christian Wedding Officiant Recognition Class that grants your credentials.
This course is for those who want to grow in their calling and Christian identity! This course is part 2 of the "Getting Started" experience at Christian Leaders, and this course may change your life!
A Romance Officiant assists unmarried individuals in connecting with the opposite sex for the purpose of exploring potential marital relationships. The primary objective of a romance officiant is to support Christian individuals in establishing healthy dating and courtship relationships, guiding them toward making their commitments official.
The funeral officiant skill course covers the skill necessary to officiate a funeral with confidence and competence. This course is required to become a funeral officiant with the Christian Leaders Alliance.
Dive into an enriching journey covering 8 topics, designed for those called to serve as Ministry Officiants. This course prepares you to become a Ministry Officiant and allows you to be credentialed with the Christian Leaders Alliance as a Licensed Ministry Officiant.
Officiant Ministry skills are the essential ministry skills that clergy need in many settings. Whether you are the volunteer, part-time, or career ministry lane, this two-credit course will teach you ministry skills for various ministry settings.
Maybe you never have studied the Bible or Theology, and you want to learn some essential study techniques. Maybe you struggled with your studies in your earlier days. Maybe English is your second language. Maybe it has been a long time since you did any studies.You will learn how to study ministry and theology in this course.
Pre-Marriage Counseling Skills is a course led by Steve Elzinga with some real life examples from Abby and Mitchell Dominiak. As a branch of life coaching, students will learn how to come along side engaged-to-be-married couples and coach them through life before marriage.
Get empowered for more effective ministry to parents. Many parents are seeking help to raise confident children. Professor Steve Elzinga presents this parenting skill course to help you if you are involved with children or if you minister to parents.
Sexual intimacy is a God-given gift connected to marriage and procreation. This course discusses many vital aspects of sexuality within a Christian Worldview approach, in order to equip Christians and ministers to grow in their personal lives and in their ministry impact.
A match conversations ministry is led by a matchmaker minister. There are many conversations that occur when someone is dating or courting. The matchmaker minister in today's context rarely actually finds the match, but can help clients prepare for and find their match.
How do Christians find their life-long marriage match? This course brings the Biblical worldview to the practical need of matching couples who share a walk with Christ. Professor Kristina Lynn has spent over twenty years developing a matchmaking ministry approach. This one-credit specialization ministry class is designed for those interested in pursuing matchmaking as part of their ministry.
MinistryBiz Skills is a course that focuses on the selected actions needed to start ministry enterprises that focus on ministry and business.
Become a multiplying difference-maker and take another step in your ministry journey. Christian Leaders offers training and programs to advance your calling! Learn more about how to get started with Christian Leaders in this course.