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Calvin Seminary offers a Competency-Based Masters Level Program: Flexible, Customizable, and Experience-Focused

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Through CBTE, you’ll have the opportunity to pursue a Master of Arts or Certificate in Christian Leadership within your ministry context. Our CBTE format offers a rigorous customizable learning plan, regular meeting with mentors, and in-context ministry activities designed for whole-person formation. CBTE is self-paced and flexible, able to adapt to a student’s experience and life’s commitments and demands. Graduates of our CBTE program have demonstrated competency in key areas of Christian leadership and are equipped to flourish in life and ministry.

Learn how CBTE is:

Collaborative and Contextual

Work with a team of three mentors - faculty, vocational, and personal - to grow in competencies for ministry. Your team will coach you through a designed learning path, taking into account your prior experience, strengths and growth areas, ministry context, vocational goals, and more.

Integrated and Practical

Develop interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and integrated competencies. Each of these competencies encapsulates a combination of content, character, and craft. Grow holistically through a robust process of feedback and assessment with the mentor team.

Flexible and Adaptable

Learn through a combination of media, instruction, interaction, and the context of your ministry practice. Our Learning Paths are approved by the Calvin Seminary Next Steps Faculty Committee and can be tailored to a student’s development needs as guided by the mentor team.

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BE EMPOWERED TO: MULTIPLY THE CHRUCH AND FLOURISH THROUGH WHOLE-PERSON FORMATION

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Interested in applying for a Master of Arts or Certificate in Christian Leadership offered in the CBTE model? Use the button below to learn more about our Christian Leadership options and apply.

interested in facilitating a competency-based learning cohort?

Learn About Empower:

What is an Empower cohort?

A small group of students in your area who engage the competency-based learning paths together. Each student has a three-person mentor team and also participates in facilitated peer learning by the partnering organization. Empower cohorts bring meaningful collaboration between the seminary, local ministry leaders, churches, and organizations - all to benefit the students’ competency development and whole-person formation.

How does an Empower cohort function?

Students are enrolled at CTS and use faculty-developed learning paths.The learning paths provide rigorous Masters-level education and integration of content, character, and craft.  Partnering organizations can shape learning experiences to resonate even more deeply with their local context. Mentor teams include a faculty mentor from CTS and local mentors who know both the community and the student. Student learning remains self-paced with the support of an embodied community.

Flexible and Adaptable

Learn through a combination of media, instruction, interaction, and the context of your ministry practice. Our Learning Paths are approved by the Calvin Seminary Next Steps Faculty Committee and can be tailored to a student’s development needs as guided by the mentor team.

Do you have a group of students who are interested in being further equipped for ministry through Empower? Please reach out to empower@calvinseminary.edu to learn more!