Equip Your Leaders.
Strengthen Your Ministry.
Build for the Future.
Leadership development that fits
the rhythms of real church life.
Why Churches Need a Partnership Path
Church leaders carry heavy ministry loads. With weekly preaching, counseling, meetings, and community engagement, structured leadership development often gets overshadowed.
Redemption Seminary provides a simple, sustainable solution—a way for volunteers, staff, and emerging leaders to grow theologically without adding new burdens to pastors or administrators.
And for those called to go further, this same training builds seamlessly into an accredited master’s degree.
What Makes This Path Work for Real Churches
🕒 Start Anytime
No waiting for semesters. Begin when ministry rhythms allow.
📚 A Track for Everyone
Scalable options: small discussion groups, single courses, certificate programs, and degree programs. Great for future pastors, continuing education for elders and deacons, elder and deacon training, curious members, and members considering leadership.
Enrichment (non-graded)
Individual for-credit courses
Certificate programs
Accredited master’s degrees (Work with the administration to develop a custom ordination track for your denomination.)
🧭 Minimal Work for Pastors
You meet quarterly with learners to help them apply what they’re studying.
No prep. No grading. Curriculum & workbook provided.
🛠️ Equip Your Leadership and Staff
Top theological research tools and training to make the most of your team’s time and help them drill deeply into the Word.
🌿 Honors Your Church’s Tradition
A multi-denominational approach that strengthens your heritage while teaching students how Christian traditions sharpen one another.
🎓 Your Church Can Build Its Own Leadership Training Program/Graduate School
Build your own program and embed a Redemption degree so your leaders can complete a graduate degree while working through it.
How the Partnership Works
This program establishes a formal relationship between Redemption and the church, so the church has access to Redemption leadership and a voice in the strategic planning of Redemption. The partnership contribution is intended to provide the church with more benefits than the church would receive by supporting (reimbursing) its interns or future leaders for a portion of their tuition costs.
Your Annual Partnership Contribution
$2,500 — Small churches (under 250 weekly adult attendance) — saving $188 on 4 graded courses plus other benefits
$5,000 — Large churches (250+ weekly adult attendance) — saving $376 on 8 graded courses plus other benefits
Includes substantial benefits for learner development and congregational training.
Partnership Benefits
1. Discounted Training for Everyone
50% off ALL non-graded courses for any church member who wants to learn without pursuing a degree.
Perfect for volunteers, lay leaders, and teachers. Small-group watch events are welcome, where one person has access to a course through the non-graded track and invites others to watch short lecture segments and discuss.
2. Accredited Course Discounts
50%-off codes for graded courses (4 codes for small churches, 8 for large churches)
Distribute to one student or several. Codes may be used outside the congregation to support other churches, missionaries, ministries, etc.
Need more?
Add a pack of 4 discounts for $2,500 each. Each pack saves $2,688 with these tuition discounts, so there is a net benefit ($188) with this benefit alone, in addition to the other benefits of the non-graded course discounts.
Churches are welcome to contribute more than 50% of a course for a student. Each student has a QR code associated with their student account that others can use to contribute to their tuition costs.
3. Premium Digital Library & Logos MAX
Every enrolled student receives:
Redemption’s extensive digital theological library
Logos MAX subscription ($240 annual value per student)
AI-enhanced study tools for interacting with theological authors & texts
This becomes your church’s best annual library investment.
4. Shared Educational Resources
Help build a growing library of short-form trainings available to congregations within the Redemption network.
Ideal for:
Elder & deacon training
Counseling basics
Sunday School teacher development
Adult Bible studies
General enrichment
5. Visibility & Mutual Encouragement
If your church produces public resources (blog posts, videos, teaching), Redemption features them in its newsletter to encourage the wider body of Christ.
6. A Voice in Redemption’s Future
Appoint a representative to the Redemption Advisory Council, shaping the Seminary’s direction with real church input.
We provide structured learning to support your efforts and goals for your congregation.
Learning Model
Our local model allows leaders and interns to remain in the congregation.
This apprenticeship approach allows for work to be accomplished for the church as part of courses and learning to be more firmly rooted in students.
Reduces costs (vs. travel and lost income for moving away from home community)
Learning within study groups (small groups or learning pods)
Improves peer encouragement and improves peer-to-peer learning
Allows local church leadership to guide and oversee the learning
Raise Up Pastors and Leaders from
within Your Own Congregation
Ready to Grow Leaders in Your Church?
We’d love to build a partnership with you.
Action List
Start the church partnership program
Set up monthly or bi-monthly meetings to plan how to make the most of the program for your church.
Develop what local pastoral meetings with the interns will look like: frequency, goals, and look at example content for discussions.
Determine the date for interns to start working through the coursework, having regular meetings to work together and receive pastoral guidance, and schedule when they will start meeting with a Redemption mentor. (This is "Registering for a Course") See steps here: https://redemption.edu/educational-methodology
Feel free to have other members (perhaps future interns) join the group with the non-graded track -- or graded if they want to. They can always have their non-graded work graded later.
Preserving Church Control
The church (or ministry) maintains doctrinal control over the program and can direct student growth within their ministry context. The church chooses what mentors (perhaps their own staff) meet the standards of their overarching church program. If a new member joins the church who has taken some Redemption courses previously with mentors outside of the church’s approved list, they may still earn their Redemption degree, and it is up to the church to determine what they will allow to count toward completing their training program. The church program may require students in this situation to retake such courses with one of their approved mentors. In this circumstance, the student may be able to use the opportunity to improve their course grade.
Since the church designs its own overarching program, it may require other activities and requirements (pillars) such as weekly peer group meetings or additional meetings with their mentor professor to complete their program.
Churches are limited to embedding predefined Redemption degree programs since Redemption maintains accreditation compliance standards in such a way that optimizes cost savings for churches and students. However, mentors are responsible for helping students personalize their work to suit their gifting and their ministerial contexts. So a church that provides mentors for its members can tailor the student work to the needs and focus of the church’s ministry.