About the Degree

The MA focused on a Missiology of Movements equips leaders to effectively engage their culture with ministry skills, Christlike character, and a biblically informed worldview in order to make disciples and catalyze movements around the world. The degree is designed for those seeking the academic and ministry expertise for work as church planters, movement catalysts and strategy coordinators, missionaries, cross-cultural consultants, as well as cultural researchers. The robust nature of the degree may serve as a step toward doctoral studies in related areas.

Join a learning community to explore not simply the study of movements, but the practical application of movement dynamics to your ministry context. Here's what to expect:

  • Rooted in the New Testament: Students explore the foundations of movement thinking through deep engagement with Scripture, particularly the Book of Acts and the Pauline epistles, grounding movement strategy in biblical theology​.

  • Integrated Christology–Missiology–Ecclesiology: The program emphasizes a proper sequence of theological study: Christology first, which shapes missiology, which in turn leads to a biblically grounded and culturally relevant ecclesiology​.

  • Movement Catalyst Training: Designed for church planters, movement strategists, missionaries, and disciple-makers who want to multiply leaders and churches that reflect New Testament models​.

  • Interdisciplinary Missiological Reflection: Students are equipped to think missionally across cultures and disciplines, integrating insights from archaeology, history, theology, and contemporary sociological trends​​.

  • Scholarly Yet Practical: Coursework and assessments are oriented around real-world ministry application, encouraging students to test ideas in their own mission fields while developing academic rigor​.

Who studies with us?

Participants in the MA program are not simply students enrolled in a self-paced course. They join a learning community of like-minded experts and other explorers. We would love to welcome you into a creative and innovative global community.

Our typical student is . . .

  • A prospective missionary preparing to go to the field

  • A deployed missionary looking to sharpen cross-cultural effectiveness to successfully equip movement leaders

  • A co-vocational pastor focused on equipping others to multiplying disciples

  • A lead pastor transitioning a church to a movement orientation

  • A church or lay leader desiring to learn what the New Testament church looked like and apply it to their ministry

12 Learning Experiences Designed to Provide a Foundation for Movemental Dynamics

Come study with some of the world's leading experts on missiology and movements including Alan Hirsch, Emanuel Prinz, and Wes Watkins

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What our students are saying

My desire to pursue theological education and specifically why I am interested in the MA Missiology of Movements degree has to do specifically with the opportunity to study the missiology of movements. 

Missionary to South East Asia

 

Honestly speaking, I feel wholly inadequate in my responsibility to help train up future leaders, disciple-makers, church planters, and pastors of our church. As a pastor, that weighs heavy on my heart and greatly concerns me. . . . What excites me most about pursuing the MA in Missiology of Movements is that it appears to provide exactly what I'm looking for - learning how to better train and equip future leaders so they can reproduce as disciple-making disciples and gospel-centered church planters.

Pastor, USA

 

I believe that this degree in the Missiology of Movement will help me continue on this journey. I believe I’m supposed to spend the remaining portion of my life focusing on researching and developing different biblical models of church multiplication, as well as training, equipping, and supporting future practitioners of those models. I want to become a catalyst in making disciples in my community and around this world and I strongly feel that this degree will equip me and fill in any gaps that I may have, in order to bring about change in my life and the lives of others.

Pastor, USA

 

I am pursuing a MA in Missiology of Movements because I want to continue to grow in wisdom, understanding, and passion for God’s Word and his mission and be faithful to steward the gifts God has given me for his glory among the nations . . . . I am incredibly excited to continue to be equipped and blessed by great instructors that I may pass on what I learn and teach/equip others for ministry as well!

Missionary Trainer focused on Unreached People Groups

 

As a pastor and church planter I desire to grow in my knowledge of how to expand my missional understanding. Our church desires to multiply other churches, leaders, and missionaries. This degree program seems perfectly suited to provide a combination of biblical, theological, missional, and practical insights on being more effective in these pursuits.

Pastor, USA

 

This degree thoroughly aligns with our church and our affiliation with the Acts29 church-planting network. Our church's mission is to "Make disciples, Equip the Saints, and Plant Churches." I am interested in this degree not only for myself, but also for many of the young men we are discipling in the church. We hope to promote this Master's degree in our church and in our region.

Pastor, USA

 

I pursuing the MA in Missiology of Movements to deepen my biblical foundation and practical understanding of how God is advancing his Kingdom through movements. I serve as a cross cultural worker in the Middle East, and this degree directly applies to what we are wanting God to do here. I believe this degree will equip me to better discern the specific role I have in God's unfolding Kingdom work, become a more effective disciple-maker, and sharpen my missiological thinking as a cultural outsider seeking to establish new, multiplying churches in a hard field. I don't think there is a degree that is better suited to my current time constraints or more relevant for the work God has called me too.

Missionary to the Middle East

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