Training for Ministry in your local Church

Carey's Christian Ministry Training courses (CMT) are aimed at people training for ministry in a local church or organisation and provide:

• Hands on ministry experience and skill development
• Degree level study in Bible, theology, mission and ministry
• Supervision by an experienced practitioner in a ministry context
• Support by Carey’s Coordinator of Field Education Andrew Picard
  
• Personal evaluation
• A connection with other interns
• Full-time or part-time options, onsite in Auckland or by Distance study anywhere

What do I need?

• A relationship with a local church or organisation
• An experienced and theologically qualified practitioner as a supervisor
• Approval of your intended ministry and supervisor from the Coordinator of Field Education
  
• Enrolment in a Carey academic programme
• A desire for skill and personal development

Carey Provides:

• A structure to fit practical ministry work within the local church or organisation context. Click here to see examples showing how this structure is put together...
• A degree level academic course of study to suit the intern’s ministry training objectives.
• An internship can be undertaken in a number of ministry settings. Examples include pastoral and youth ministry, cross cultural mission, child and family, workplace, and creative ministries, or a mixture of these things - click here to see how certain courses in the Carey curriculum can fit into the training within these certain ministry areas...
• Full-time students may be eligible for the government student allowance and loans - click here to go to the government Studylink website...
• The academic component can be anything from 9 to 27 hours per week, while the practical ministry work is normally 10 hours per week for a full-time student, to see diagrams showing how Carey courses fit into both full-time or part-time internship structures click here...

A full-time internship weekly workload would look like this:

Quotes from our Interns

What do I do now?

Get in touch with the Coordinator of Field Education Andrew Picard.  He will be able to discuss with you your options and advise you about enroling for study.  You cannot enrol for the internship without the coordinator's prior approval. Approval is gained by submitting a Christian Ministry Training Ministry Proposal Form (Available from the course coordinator).   This should be done as early as possible before the start of the academic year.