Dinner Church School of Leadership - 2024-2025 Registration

With traditional approaches becoming less and less effective in reaching secular populations, leaders are now reaching out for different sociologies of “doing church”. Interestingly, rebirthing a common ecclesial form from the Apostolic Era is proving to be highly effective again in creating great commission environments for unchurched people.

Dinner Church is not an innovation – it is a recovery project! And that historic recovery is at the heart of this program. Any leader who desires to recapture a very rich sociology of church from the first 600 years of Christian history soon realizes there is a lot to be embraced. Planting a Dinner Church is not as simple as doing church as we know it, except around tables. That would be akin to the proverbial iceberg being measured by what is visible on the surface and excluding the large mass residing under the water. Any serious student of the dinner church would do well to embrace some extraordinary and intrinsic differences in the areas of preaching, discipleship, evangelism, and the familial sociology that constituted a Jesus table. That historic ecclesial form drew its meaning from the New Passover that Christ himself practiced and handed over to the first disciples.

Simply stated, the depths of understanding to be mined in the dinner church theology is significant, and warrants graduate-level instruction and theological reflection. That need has prompted an academic response – the Dinner Church School of Leadership.

• Learn how to select and train a core team and train volunteers for a Dinner Church.
• Learn how to select a neighborhood and a site for a Dinner Church.
• Learn how to take pastoral responsibility for a new Dinner Church congregation.
• Learn how to prepare and deliver a kerygmatic sermon and how to disciple people in the likeness of Christ around tables.
• Learn how to develop prayer strategies that will keep you on the front-lines of the Gospel.
• Learn how to grow a New Dinner Church Organizationally from inmfancy into adolescence, and finally to a sustainable Adult Congregation

Five Courses (18 credits) over a 9-month period

Weekly Lectures will be every Tuesday Evening from 4pm-5:50pm PACIFIC
September 3, 2024 thru June 3, 2025

This a digital / on-line course. All students will be engaged in a live lecture each week.

For Credit: There is a non-refundable Registration Fee (Eventbrite Ticket) of $50. You then have a choice - If you pay in full it is a $2700 Tuition (a $300 discount) If you choose to pay monthly it is a $3000 Tuition (10 months at $300). We will setup an electronic invoice to bill you either for the full payment of $2700 or 10 monthly payments of $300 each. At the end of the course there is a $500 Matriculation Fee paid to Sioux Falls Seminary. Total Credit cost (registration + tuition + matriculation fee) is $3250 paid in full / $3550 paid monthly. All payments must be completed before Sioux Falls Seminary will begin the graduate certificate process.

For Audit: There is a non-refundable Registration Fee (Eventbrite Ticket) of $25. You have a choice - If you pay in full it is a $1800 Tuition (a $200 discount) - If you choose to pay monthly its is a $2000 Tuition (10 months at $200) We will setup an electronic invoice to bill you either for the full payment of $1800 or 10 monthly payments of $200 each. Total Audit cost (registration + tuition) is $1825 paid in full / $2025 paid monthly.

Any student enrolled in a Masters Program (for credit) will be paired with an Academic Advisor chosen from the faculty of Sioux Falls Seminary. Any student pursuing the Dinner Church Graduate Certificate will be paired with an Academic Advisor (holding at least a Masters Degree) chosen by DCLS.

More information is at: https://www.dinnerchurch.com/graduate-course

Event Venue

Online