Section outline

  • Developing House Churches (3 credits)

    Instructor: Henry Reyenga

    Content Provider: Larry Kreider

    Dove International Founder and Director

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    Overview: This course teaches you how to plant a house church and house church network. You will also learn the leadership operating system that makes house churches strong and thriving.


    Course Outcomes:

    1. Know biblical principles and practical guidelines for leading house churches or cell groups.
    2. Develop personal qualifications and skills to be a house church leader.
    3. Embrace vision for relational ministry, spiritual parenting/mentoring, and every-member mobilization.
    4. Recognize some common problems of house church ministry and know how to deal with them.
    5. Rely on the Holy Spirit in leading others and forming new groups of believers.

    Resources: This course includes two books written by Professor Larry Kreider. The first book is House to House. The second book is The Cry of Spiritual Fathers and Mothers. No book purchases are needed. The books are in the course. If you do want to buy the house church books, click here.


    Assignments: View all online lectures and read all articles on each topic. CLI computer tracks whether you do this. After viewing all lectures for the unit, take the quiz based on the lectures (100% of grade).


    Grading Scale:


    A 95-100%   A- 90-94%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%   C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%


    Your average for the course must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no credit.


    Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.


    Course Forum: Each course forum is at the beginning of the course, right before the first-course content section, and has comments and questions from other students in the class. The forum is a great way to post a question or comment for other students who are currently enrolled in the course to see. Additionally, you can search the forum to see if anyone in the past has addressed or discussed the issue, question, or comment you wanted to post about.