Asbury Theological Seminary
Doctor of Ministry
Church Planting in Evangelical, Sacramental and Pentecostal Perspective
Starting September 2024
Are you ready to the next step in investing in your effectiveness as a missional-leader? Join the next Asbury Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry (DMin) cohort, ‘Church Planting in Evangelical, Sacramental and Pentecostal Perspective’, whexplore church planting, missiology, ecclesiology and leadership.
Develop as a Practitioner-Theologian in Church Planting
Explore mission, leadership and church planting through the lenses of evangelical, sacramental and Pentecostal traditions, under the guidance of leading practitioners and thinkers. Through this programme, you will be equipped as a leader skilled in shaping mission and church planting nationally and across networks. Learning from within a British and European context, and as part of a diverse cohort, you will engage in advanced theological study and field research, designed to cultivate your growth as a practical theologian, writer and expert practitioner.
This cohort will tackle topics including:
the theology and practice of church planting from evangelical, sacramental/liturgical and Pentecostal perspectives;
approaches to mission and evangelism through the church;
leadership dynamics in mission and church planting;
study of the lives of key historic leaders and of significant periods in this field; and
the principals of church growth, church multiplication and the dynamics of church planting movements.
As you complete your degree, you will:
have developed advanced skills for theological study and empirical research;
engaged in structured and self-directed academic study and writing;
cultivated new relationships with peers for ministry connections;
expanded your understanding of ministry methods and perspectives; and
increased your potential for greater local and national ministry.
Sample Cohort Syllabi
Year One
DM911 Core Course – Discovering God’s Missional Heart
DM(CPE)915 Seminar I – Church Planting in Perspectives
Year Two
DM(CPE)916 Seminar II – Missional Leaders and Leadership in Church Planting
DM(CPE)917 Seminar III – Mission and Evangelism through the Church
Year Three
DM(CPE)918 Seminar IV – Church Growth and Multiplication
DM910 Core Course – Habits that Sustain Ministry
Lead professors and tutors
Revd Dr Christian Selvaratnam is an Anglican priest and Dean of Church Planting at St Hild College in the North of England and one of the Ambassadors of the Archbishops’ College of Evangelists in the Church of England. Before this, he was the National Director of Alpha UK, a church planter and a free-church minister.
Maria Boschker is the COO of Exponential Europe where she plays a key role in shaping strategy and vision and developing relationships with churches across Europe. She is experienced in church planting and church consultancy; her previous background is in neuroscientific research.
Revd Alex Harris is a Regional Minister focussed on pioneering and church planting in the Baptist Union of Great Britain. He is Director of Baptist Church Planting at St Hild Centre for Church Planting, where he oversees national planting initiatives including ‘Everyone Everywhere’, and he co-leads the Firestarter network of growing churches.
Rt Revd Dr Ric Thorpe is the Bishop of Islington and Director of the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication. He serves the Church of England nationally, supporting bishops, dioceses, church planters and pioneers to develop church planting strategies and to plant new worshipping communities to reach new people in new places in new ways.
Teaching and partners
The teaching for this cohort will be delivered in England with elements in-person and online. The core courses will be delivered by seminary faculty; the seminar courses will draw on leading theologians and practitioners from diverse traditions. This cohort is delivered in association with St Hild College, Exponential Europe and the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication.
St Hild College (https://sthild.org) is a pioneering theological college in the North of England, equipping people through transformative community life, excellent theological learning and a contagious passion for the kingdom.
Exponential Europe (https://exponential.eu) equips and serves leaders and teams to resource the local church to see reproduction and multiplication becoming the norm in the language and behaviour of the church in Europe.
The Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication (https://ccx.org.uk) equips and resources church leaders, teams and dioceses across the UK and beyond, to multiply disciples and reach new people in new and renewed ways with the good news of Jesus Christ.
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“In the context of a full life of ministry, the Asbury DMin has given me space and opportunity for development and growth, surrounded by a cohort of equally motivated church leaders. I have learned about church planting as part of God’s action in the world, a rich and wonderful subject which is taught here by experienced practitioners and theologians who inspire.”
Revd Hannah Patton, Vicar of St John's Goole. DMin Church Planting in Europe cohort (2021–24).