Master of Arts
Our Master of Arts in Ministry is a streamlined 36 hour degree designed to be done “on the run” while you are serving or volunteering in ministry. This highly practical program is designed to challenge you to tune-up your ministry skills and learn effective new ways to serve God and others in just two years. A professor with real ministry experience will guide you in applying your weekly homework assignments to your local ministry context. Seminary classes take place in a cohort model, which means you begin your degree together and then proceed through of the degree until you graduate together. This model not only helps motivate you to keep going; it creates a spiritual and relational bond with fellow pilgrims on the journey with whom you can rejoice, struggle, and to whom you can be accountable. With 18 credits of core courses and 18 credits of elective courses, you are able to craft your perfect degree. Students may choose to take four electives in a given field and receive a specialization in either Children, Youth & Family Ministry, Church Planting and Multiplication, Church Revitalization, Leadership, Pastoral Ministry, Spiritual Formation, Intercultural Studies or Worship Arts. Our specializations are designed to be done “on the run” whether you are already in a parachurch or church ministry, or whether you are sensing God might be calling you to some sort of ministry.
Wesley Seminary is blessed to work with partners in various ways to offer the Master of Arts in Ministry degree.
12Stone Church in the Atlanta, GA, area is known for, among other things, leadership development. Students can begin their MA in Ministry by taking a one-week course at 12Stone Church and through the partnership will return to take a second one year later. Current students can take these courses as electives.
Heartland Church and the Bishop Tom Benjamin are both pillars of the Indianapolis community. Through partnerships with each, Wesley Seminary is offering the MA in Ministry in a multi-cultural ministry learning format.
Prairie Lakes Church in Cedar Falls, Iowa, has committed to raising up leadership that will impact the Kingdom of God in Iowa. Wesley Seminary has partnered with them to offer the MA in Ministry with four courses taught in Iowa.
