Church Planting Residencies
The Church Planting Residencies prepare men and women for inner city church planting with NEU Church Planting. For the planting pastor, the program is two-years long. For women’s and men’s disciplers, the program is one year long and coincides with their first year of ministry.
Are you equipped to start and stay as a planter in the inner city, rather than to start and fade? Have you struggled to find the right training that fits the urban neighborhood you want to reach?
Who This is For
Haynes School of Ministry offers three distinct residency tracks for men and women who are interested in joining a church planting team with New England Urban Church Planting
Planting Pastor Residency
A 2-year residency starting with one year in Providence, followed by a second year in the New England community that you are aiming to plant a church in.
Women’s Discipler Residency
A 1-year residency in the context of a planned church plant for women looking to join a church plant team as a Women’s Discipler.
Men’s Discipler Residency
A 1-year residency in the context of a planned church plant for men who would join the church plant team as a lay member, deacon, or elder.
Planting Pastor Residency
The Planting Pastor Residency is a 2-year process of training and assessment with the goal of planting a church with NEU Church Planting in New England.
Overview
Pastoral Training in Local Church
Since we believe churches plant churches, NEU works closely with mentoring churches who play a crucial role in your preparation. In the first year, you will focus on ecclesiology. It's critical to know what a church is and does and to see a healthy church in practice. In this first year of pastoral training you will read and discuss your reading with the pastoral instructors and mentors, engage in evangelism, discipleship, elders meetings, small groups, service reviews, and other tasks.
Thorough Assessment
During your two year residency, we will be seeking to develop and prepare you for inner city pastoral ministry. We will simultaneously be assessing you for that ministry. There will be a initial assessment at the end of the first year and final assessment in your second year. Both of these assessments will also give you an opportunity for you to judge how well you fit with NEU and the context in which you are planning to plant a church.
Live Where You Will Plant
In the second year you will move into or near the community you will plant in. You will continue to work closely with NEU, as in the first year, but you will partner now with one of our church partners near your planting community. This church will officially be your planting church. You will begin to develop relationships in the community, meeting pastors, civic leaders, and residents. This second year will enable you to learn about the community, do a lot of listening, and to begin the work of evangelism, discipleship, and counseling. You will in essence begin pastoring the people God brings you before you have a church.
The Planting Pastor’s Pathway
The two-year pathway starts when a Planting Pastor Resident moves to Providence, RI after being accepted to the residency program. You will spend your first year at our training church in Providence. Your second year will be with the local planting church near your target neighborhood. Haynes School of Ministry will work closely with both churches throughout your residency. The pathway culminates in your church plant.
Join us and be prepared when you plant
Women’s Discipler Residency
Communities marked by poverty are places where women are struggling. Fatherlessness means women are working full-time, often at multiple jobs, while also caring for their children. Their homes and their their neighborhoods are often unsafe places. We consider the role of a women's discipler on our planting teams to be essential. Our one-year residency is designed to provide on-the-job training for this important work.
Track Overview
Exploration
Unlike the pastoral residency, the women's residency does not include year-end assessment. Therefore we want you to have a good idea of the work before you come. Exploring this position will include meetings with our staff (in-person or online), a vision trip to Providence, RI, a tour of the location you are interested in, and most of all, meetings with the planting pastor and any existing team members.
Preparation
Ideally you will join your church planting team in the second year of the planting pastor's residency, in the location of the church plant. You and the NEU staff will construct a learning pathway that reflects the experience and education you already have. A strong part of your preparation will include ecclesiology, a biblical philosophy of evangelism and discipleship, biblical counseling, and teaching the Word. You will likely become a deacon in the church. NEU partners with The Charles Simeon Trust to help train our women's disciplers. All of this will be balanced with the work you will begin doing with your planting team.
Planting and Sustaining
Your work of evangelism and discipleship will help establish the church as a disciple-making church from the outset. As women mature, you will have the opportunity to multiply disciple-makers among these women. As you continue to nurture the church's health with your fellow leaders, the NEU staff will continue to care for you and your sustainability in the ministry.
The Women's Discipler Pathway
The one-year residency for the Women's Discipler is designed to join a team for a planned church plant led by a second year Planting Pastor Resident. The year is spent near the eventual location of the church so that you can begin getting to know the communities near by and establishing relationships.
Get the preparation you need for cross-cultural ministry
Men’s Discipler Residency
Our church planting teams need capable, godly men whose service to the team may be as a full-time NEU staff member, or as a bi-vocational elder or deacon. In either case, we want you to be prepared for the challenging work of evangelism, discipleship, counseling, and other forms of service.
Track Overview
Exploration
Unlike the pastoral residency, the men's residency does not include year-end assessment. Therefore we want you to have a good idea of the work before you come. Exploring this position will include meetings with our staff (in-person or online), a vision trip to Providence, RI, a tour of the location you are interested in, and most of all, meetings with the planting pastor and any existing team members.
Preparation
Ideally you will join your church planting team in the second year of the planting pastor's residency, in the location of the church plant. You and the NEU staff will construct a learning pathway that reflects the experience and education you already have. A strong part of your preparation will include ecclesiology, a biblical philosophy of evangelism and discipleship, biblical counseling, and teaching the Word. NEU partners with The Charles Simeon Trust to help train our men's disciplers. All of this will be balanced with the work you will begin doing with your planting team.
Planting and Sustaining
Your work of evangelism and discipleship will help establish the church as a disciple-making church from the outset. As men mature, you will have the opportunity to multiply elders, deacons and disciple-makers among these men. As you continue to nurture the church's health with your fellow leaders, the NEU staff will continue to care for you and your sustainability in the ministry.
The Men's Discipler Pathway
The one-year residency for the Men's Discipler is designed to join a team for a planned church plant led by a second year Planting Pastor Resident. The year is spent near the eventual location of the church so that you can begin getting to know the communities near by and establishing relationships.
Get the training and experience to be a part of a church plant
The Process
Apply Today
Fill out our application for the One-Year Application. We respond within a week.
Video Interview with Staff and Board Members
After the interview, you will hear a final decision regarding your application within two days.
Offer Letter
The final step of the application process is an offer letter with a request for your decision about joining.
Next Steps: Get trained to raise funds
Once accepted, you will join a three day fundraising bootcamp and prepare to move to Providence.
The only ministry training programs that offer training, experience, and assessment for inner city church planting in the US.
We help men and women in the US who want guided, hands on training to prepare for inner city church planting.
Training
Learn through guided training in and through the local church.
Experience
Hands on experience of church life in inner city neighborhoods
Assessment
Better understand God’s call on your life through staff and church leadership assessments.
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