Church-Based Training :: Stories

Pastor Tom Starkjohn
Harvest Community Church Plant - Winsted, Minnesota
 
Tom contrasts his excellent seminary education, which he states was “academic & grade-focused,” with church based training: practical training while in the trenches of pastoral ministry, “immediate implementation, done in community.”
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Pastor John McCosh
Rock Haven Church Plant - Granite Falls, Minnesota
 
When called to ministry from banking, John thought he’d have to uproot his family, but was advised by district leadership to consider church based training. He put his training into practice, first as an elder in an existing church plant, later as a church planter himself.
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