Executive Minister
You need to complete 8 more courses and 15 more credits to mark this activity complete.
🧭 Executive Minister Specialization
Leading Ministries with Strategic Vision, Organizational Excellence, and Spiritual Integrity
The Executive Minister Specialization prepares clergy to serve in high-level leadership roles within churches, ministries, and nonprofit organizations. This specialization equips you with the theological foundation, administrative skill, and relational wisdom needed to lead teams, steward resources, cast vision, and ensure that ministries operate effectively and missionally.
Ideal for senior staff members, church administrators, or ministry founders, this credential is designed for leaders who oversee both the spiritual direction and operational execution of ministry work.
💬 Why It Matters
Executive ministry leadership is not only about making decisions—it’s about serving with clarity, humility, and excellence. Ministries thrive when executive leaders bring vision, biblical grounding, and organizational skills together to empower others, guard integrity, and advance the mission.
This specialization matters because it prepares leaders who can handle the complex responsibilities of modern ministry—staff oversight, board relations, budgeting, program development, and strategic planning—while staying rooted in their calling to serve God and His people.
🧰 What You’ll Learn
To receive this specialization, you must complete your core clergy credential and maintain a 2.0 GPA, along with these eight key courses:
Multiplying Christian Leaders – Equips you to develop and empower leadership teams within your ministry.
New Testament Survey – Lays the biblical foundation for servant leadership in the church.
Old Testament Survey – Highlights leadership and organizational models found throughout God’s redemptive history.
People Smart for Ministry – Develops relational skills critical for leading staff, volunteers, and church members with wisdom and grace.
Management by the Book – Applies Proverbs-based business and leadership principles to ministry management.
Leadership – Trains you to lead with vision, humility, and impact in church and organizational settings.
How to Be a Productive Board Member – Prepares you to serve on or work with ministry boards with excellence.
How to Form a Ministry Board – Equips you to build strong governance structures that support healthy and accountable ministry leadership.
🛠️ How This Specialization Equips You
With the Executive Minister credential, you will be ready to:
Lead church or ministry operations with spiritual and administrative strength
Manage staff, volunteers, finances, and programs with excellence
Collaborate with boards and stakeholders to shape long-term strategy
Mentor and multiply leaders across your organization
Model Christlike leadership while ensuring ministry integrity and effectiveness
To receive the
Executive Minister
You must have the credential
Christian Wedding Officiant or
Field Minister (Commended) or
Licensed Life Coach Minister or
Licensed Minister or
Ordained Minister
Requires a 2.00 GPA and to
complete the following :
Level 1 Endorsement
0 of 16 Minimum Units Completed
Executive Minister
You must have the credential
Christian Wedding Officiant or
Field Minister (Commended) or
Licensed Life Coach Minister or
Licensed Minister or
Ordained Minister
Requires a 2.00 GPA and to
complete the following :
Level 1 Endorsement8 courses required
-
Multiplying Christian Leaders (1 Module) - New Testament Survey (3 Units)
- Old Testament Survey (3 Units)
- People Smart for Ministry (3 Units)
- Management by the Book (3 Units)
- Leadership (3 Units)
- How to be a Productive Board Member (0 Modules)
- How to Form a Ministry Board (0 Modules)