DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING!! Apply by May 15th!
Are you called to preach to Good News? Do you want to improve your preaching skills?
The Cultivating the Gift of Preaching Initiative (CGPI), a ministry Synod of the Covenant for the training of emergent “lay” preachers, still has openings for the 2025-2026 program year.
There are lots more details about CGPI on the Synod webpage, as well as the application. But here are the basics:
- CGPI is an 18-month, cohort model program (we are currently recruiting for the second year which begins in June 2025 and runs to November 2026).
- Participants meet monthly online (for roughly two hours) with a cohort of 5-8 participants and a mentor (an experienced Teaching Elder from the Synod with extensive experience regularly preaching in a congregational setting).
- The program begins with a 5 day (Thursday evening – Monday morning) conference at Alma College in Alma, MI. This year the conference is June 12-16.
- There are four in-person meetings throughout the program, twice with everyone in CGPI at the Alma Conference each June, and twice with just your cohort.
- The cost of the program is $1,250; $250 to be paid by the individual and $1000 by your home church and/or presbytery. Scholarships are available as well as payment plans for the churches. The actual total cost is $11,000 per participant, the grant pays for the remainder. All travel and housing expenses, books, etc. are paid for by the grant.
- The emphasis of the program is on preaching. Participants will read and discuss various preaching styles and formats, principles of biblical interpretation, the basics of Reformed theology, as well as practice public speaking, reading scripture, and, of course, delivering sermons.
Applications are due by May 15th.
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