Turn your cohort classwork into credits

The MLI instructional model includes 300 hours of practical, applicable learning and over 100 hours of mentoring. This is relevant education that exceeds all other extended instructional training options in the Midwest region.

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Ministry Leadership Initiative offers a pathway which provides for a seamless transition from the MLI Instructional Cohort Program to an undergraduate degree at our partner schools.

MLI partner schools may elect to offer undergraduate credits to youth and children’s ministers who complete the MLI Instructional Cohort Program. The degree pathway is an added benefit, although pursuing a degree is not a requirement to participate in the Cohort Program.

about the curriculum

MLI developed the two-year curriculum track in partnership with faculty from Tabor College, a religious institution in Hillsboro, Kansas.

Requirements for credit transfer

  • The MLI participant shall have fully completed the two-year MLI Instructional Cohort Program, which includes instruction and coaching.

  • The MLI participant shall complete a project, paper, or artifact each semester; this documentation shall be furnished to the partner school (these assignments are part of the two-year program and most are designed to be practical in nature, suitable to be used as lessons for youth and children’s ministry programming in the local church).

  • Those who complete the MLI program will be eligible to receive transfer, elective undergraduate credits at a partner school, which either cover the ministry course requirements in an associate of arts degree or provide ministry electives for a bachelor of arts degree.

  • Those who wish to transfer MLI completion credit into academic credit shall submit an application for admission and official transcripts to the partner school. There are nominal admission and credit transfer costs assessed by the partner school in this process; those fees are not included in the enrollment cost from MLI and are the responsibility of the student admitted to the partner school.