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Central Seminary's Mentoring Partnership is founded on the seminary's commitment to the local church and is designed to strengthen the relationship between its students and area pastors. This mentorship meets the needs of students to learn the ministry from first-hand practitioners in the church while simultaneously learning skills in the classroom.
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- Pastoral Development: Develop our students to be better prepared and more effectively trained pastors and ministry personnel
- Church Assistance: Assist churches in developing and/or fulfilling a burden for training men for the ministry
- Seminary Recruitment: Create and promote another significant reason for students to choose Central Seminary
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The Mentoring Partnership intends to bring pastors and students together in a mentoring relationship designed to enhance the student’s ministry potential while heightening ministry responsibility and accountability.
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The basic vocabulary for this Mentoring Partnership:
A Burden on the part of pastors and churches for training men for the ministry. Participants recognize the necessity for both seminary-level education and local church ministry.
A Conviction in the pastor for the need to invest himself in a ministry that will produce servants for the greater body of Christ. The pastor’s perspective must be: “What can I give to this student?” rather than “What can this student do for this church?”
A Commitment on the part of the pastor, church, and student. This mentorship should not be entered into lightly. The formal mentorship should last through the student’s years in seminary.
The pastor must commit significant time and energy as he makes mentoring a priority in his weekly schedule.
The church must be willing to commit the energies of the pastor to this endeavor as well as the resources of the church where possible.
The student must commit to a pastor and church for ministry development while taking seminary classes
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Any student in any academic program of the seminary may participate in the Mentoring Partnership, but a church may limit participation as they desire (e.g., men only, M.Div. students only, etc.). Non-seminary students may participate at the discretion of the pastor and church.
The M.Div. Pastoral Internship will continue to function as it has in the past. Seniors participate in the Pastoral Internship during the last full calendar year prior to graduating from the M.Div. program. Information on this Pastoral Internship is available upon request.
A church may have Central Seminary students attending who are not in the Mentoring Partnership. All seminary students are currently required to participate in significant Christian service through their local church.
Central Seminary will not try to limit students in their selection of a church, though it might suggest churches that do not have anyone currently in this program.
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