The foundation of our training is our five-day Equipping Seminar for North American Church Planters.  This intensive experience provides a framework for church planters who will use incarnational, attractional or innovative models for their prospective plants.  A sixty-eight page workbook, dynamic interaction and small group projects combine with assigned reading and research to prepare a candidate church planter for the daunting task of birthing a new church.  Available for graduate and doctoral credit, the basis for academic credit for this seminar is a written, comprehensive church planting prospectus tailored to the candidate’s proposed project that includes block schedules, timelines, strategy documents, funding analyses, budgets, marketing and guerilla marketing plans as well as a post-infancy reproduction projections.  

A Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership from Ashland Theological seminary can be tailored to include a significant portion of original study and research on North American church planting for those wishing to pursue study at the doctoral level.  Additional training opportunities are also available for short-term study in workshops and symposiums.