Frontline Ministry Network
Taking biblical higher education to the front lines of ministry and leadership.
Taking biblical higher education to the front lines of ministry and leadership.
We believe the ideal setting to learn ministry is on the frontline, mentored by experienced professionals. ACU partners strategically with frontline Christian organizations committed to investing in emerging leaders to deliver powerful learning on the frontline. Is that your organization?
Want to improve recruiting, add revenue and more?
Why Join the Network?
The ideal platform for training future ministry leaders is in actual ministry organizations committed to strategically mentor developing leaders. That’s you. What if you could add all of the essential tools and resources to blend your efforts with university-level course delivery while driving that process from your core DNA… and it would add revenue to your budget?
Anchor Christian University was designed, from its inception, to strategically network with frontline ministry organizations as a platform for delivering effective courses and degree programs. Our vision is to take biblical higher education to the front lines of ministry and leadership using a distance education model to produce graduates who are biblically grounded, faith-driven, relevantly experienced, and highly competent Kingdom citizens. And we network strategically through our partnership with Eleven:6.
Ministry Partner Highlight
Train on the front lines with Ethnos Mission Academy. Explore what God is doing in missions around the world. Are you ready for your journey?
The partnership with Anchor Christian University continues to push us to new levels of impact on quality, consistency, and value for our students. Their team helped us inject university-level academic delivery tools, curriculum, program design, instructional coaching, and accountability into Compassion Corp while retaining our organizational culture and call as driving forces in how we execute. It’s Compassion Corp accelerated… not a university program squeezed into an awkward box in a foreign environment."
Dan O'Deens, Executive Director
Breathe Partners
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Seven Ways We Add Value
1. Amplify Recruiting
Whether you fish in your own pond or recruit globally, you are one of several options competing for quality interns. Integrating quality portable academic courses and programs will differentiate your program and land more and better interns. Plus, we actively push students that fit your program to investigate your program as a learning platform. Oh… and we automatically apply a $100/credit discount in your organization's name to the accounts of students learning in your program.
2. DNA-Driven Accountability
Academics come with accountability. For distance students, that often equals distraction or divided attention. Our courses and programs intentionally align student academic efforts with your missional investment, adding focus, gravity, and accountability to your program, along with tangible ministry outcomes.
3. Operational Revenue
For most ministry partners, our instructor compensation model injects significant revenue into the budget that can be used to defray program costs, pay stipends or improve recruiting through scholarship offerings.
4. Accredited Degree Endpoints
Most potential interns are asking big questions about their future. We designed degree completion plans and transfer agreements with Anchor Christian University and accredited partner schools that leverage one or many courses interns will complete toward accredited degrees in line with their God-directed path.
5. Big School Tools and Resources -- On Us
Anchor Christian University deploys an enterprise-level cloud Learning Management System (LMS) to bring our core instruction framework, content, and grade book into your context. Our administrative team, admissions staff, academic advisors, etc., serve your team and your interns… for free.
6. Program Design and Coaching
Our team is there for your team. Leverage our decades of experience designing and deploying discipleship-driven training in frontline ministry contexts.
7. Discounted Access to Staff Training
We train disciple-makers, both directly and through our partner organization, Eleven:6. Gain free or discounted access to the Wilderness Institute for Leadership Development to accelerate your team’s training in multi-level discipleship skill.
“The Springs Ministries has become a classroom for students and interns to participate in the daily function of a dynamic ministry. Anchor Christian University’s distance program inspires students in their chosen academic field to interact with educational resources while participating in a thriving ministry. Students are able to incorporate their learning with the needs of the ministry. Our ministry has seen the benefit of using our site as a classroom allowing students to learn and grow while giving value in many areas of practical ministry.”