NOTE: This program is not admitting students at this time.

Director, Michael Hakmin Lee

Our mission for this degree track is to develop people for effective work in planting and building reproducing missional churches, ministries, and movements that reflect a critical engagement with the nature of the gospel, Christian life and thought, and the cultures of the contemporary world. The Great Commission is a call for all followers of Christ to be engaged in the process of leading people to a relationship with Christ, nurturing them in discipleship and Christian growth, and involving them in expressions of God’s people on God’s mission. This can only be done through the power of the Holy Spirit and sensitive engagement with contemporary cultural, philosophical, historical, contextual, and lifestyle realities.

Master of Arts, Missional Church Movements

The program leading to a Master of Arts degree requires 40 credit hours of course work.

Biblical and Theological Studies Requirement
EVAN 526Gospel: Theological Perspectives on Evangelism and Renewal4
BITH 565Christian Theology (TSR)4
Additional Courses
MISS 562Launching Apostolic Movements4
MISS 564Planting and Growing Reproducing Churches2
MISS 565Incarnational Ministry for Missional Churches2
MISS 568Organic and Simple Church2
EVAN 542Church: Movements & Models4
EVAN 545Culture: Emerging & Global4
EVAN 559Organizational and Change Leadership4
EVAN 573Evangelism Research Methods2
MML 512Leadership and Spiritual Formation4
MISS 692Comprehensive Exam0
Electives
Select 4 credits4
Total Credits40

Fitting the professional nature of the degree, learning in many of the courses will be done through directed field work, field trips, and other experiential methodologies. The degree must be completed within five years.

NewThing Partner Program

Students who are completed the NewThing Residency program may choose to enter the NewThing Partner Program at Wheaton Graduate School. Through an arrangement between Wheaton College and NewThing, upon:

  1. Successful completion of the NewThing Residency, as documented by report from the NewThing Director, and
  2. Successful completion of EVAN 542 ,

Qualified students are granted a total of 12 semester hours of credit (8 for their NewThing work and 4 for EVAN 542 ) towards the completion of the M.A. in Missional Church Movements degree. The 8 credits awarded for their NewThing work will be MISS 564 , MISS 565 , and 4 credits of electives.

In order to receive the Masters in Missional Church Movements, students take 28 semester hours of additional courses, including:

Program Requirements
EVAN 526Gospel: Theological Perspectives on Evangelism and Renewal4
EVAN 545Culture: Emerging & Global4
EVAN 559Organizational and Change Leadership4
MISS 562Launching Apostolic Movements4
MISS 568Organic and Simple Church2
MISS 692Comprehensive Exam0
EVAN 573Evangelism Research Methods2
MML 512Leadership and Spiritual Formation4
BITH 565Christian Theology (TSR)4
Total Credits28

 Students meet the graduate six-hour Biblical and Theological Studies requirement by taking BITH 565 and EVAN 526 .

If students are part of a cohort of ten NewThing partner program students or more, they may be able to take some of their approved courses at a NewThing training site with Wheaton College approved faculty.