June 3 – July 26, 2024

The Kingdom Practicum Intensive is an 8-week training program in Minneapolis, Minnesota that focuses on being an abiding disciple of Christ and an effective disciple-maker.

Overview

The Intensive provides a life-changing opportunity for personal and ministry development with a concentrated focus on being an abiding disciple of Christ and an effective disciple-maker. You will gain cross-cultural understanding in a cross-cultural setting and the beginnings of how to learning a new language. The Intensive offers a variety of effective ministry tools and will give trainees confidence in God’s working through them to reach and disciple the lost. You will be exposed to and participate in laying the foundations for a gospel movement. The Intensive will prepare trainees to serve as disciple-making champions and potential catalysts for movement in the community of their sending church, among a least-reached immigrant / diaspora community in N. America, or in a least-reached nation.

Here…Near...and Far. (Acts 1:8)

Next Available Intensive: June 3 - July 26, 2024

What Should I Expect?

Discover

  • God’s heart for the Nations and His eternal plan for worshippers from every Tribe, Tongue, & People

  • How God is at work among the Global Church where multiplication of disciples and churches is creating gospel movements

  • Your identity in Christ and how Transformational Prayer brings inner healing

  • What makes a God-honoring functioning team

  • A redemptive method of how to learn a language

Develop

  • Your character, prayer life, and abiding in Christ

  • Habits of a disciple and a disciple-maker

  • Confidence to have spiritual conversations in cross-cultural settings

  • An understanding of ministry to Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus.

  • Skills to serve on a healthy, fruitful team

Deploy

  • To be consistently sent out into the community to engage UPG’s (Unreached People Groups)

  • To be commissioned and sent out on a trajectory to be a catalyst for a Disciple-Making Movement

  • Released to your sending fellowship to potentially serve as a Movement Champion

Engage in Community Life

Trainees will do life together – learning, serving, growing, and worshipping together.  Housing will be together at a central location among UPGs.  Daily and weekly huddles keep the cohort united.  Retreats and all-team activities will challenge and inspire. Mentoring and serving together is a priority.

Family Friendly

The Intensive is family friendly. We desire and work to accommodate each family situation! We offer an age appropriate TCK (Third Culture Kid) program. Contact us for more details.

How Much Will it Cost?

$5,000

This total cost includes tuition, lodging, meals, local transportation, and ministry expenses. It does not include transportation to and from Minneapolis, medical insurance, personal vehicle costs, and student loans. Fundraising coaching is offered available upon request.

Want to Apply?

Download and complete the application below, then email it to kptwincities@gmail.com

FAQ

  • Community is an important value of the Kingdom Practicum. To maximize classroom interaction, team dynamics, and mentoring opportunities, the maximum number of trainees accepted into the program is 12.

  • Trainees are required to attend each class session, participate in the weekly team meeting, engage in their ministry outreach, and attend the occasional team retreat.

    While each trainee may have different ministry outreach situations and opportunities, the general schedule would follow this pattern: Classroom learning Monday - Friday from 9am - 12pm + A once a week evening team meeting. Any available time after this will be for study preparation, ministry outreach, and inner healing sessions.

    Note: Ministry outreach will be a minimum of 6 hours weekly depending on the relationships made and the opportunities that each intern is offered.

    Weekends will be very flexible with occasional ministry or retreats. Interns will be part of a missional, simple-church model.

  • Yes. We desire and work to accommodate each family situation! We offer an age appropriate TCK (Third Culture Kid) program.

  • Most trainees raise the necessary funds for the Intensive through Partnership Development. As potential future cross-cultural workers, it is expected that trainees will build a support team to partner with them (both financially and in prayer support) to empower them to receive this strategic training.

    Partnership Development coaching is offered from experienced Kingdom Practicum staff.

    Each trainee will set up a “Ministry Account” to handle the funds raised for the Intensive. The funds raised will be put into the trainee’s Ministry Account. Donors will receive a tax-deductible receipt from the account administrator. Each month trainees will turn in their ministry and living expenses to the account administrator to be reimbursed. This Ministry Account can be set up through the sending church, sending agency, or other appropriate organizations. This process is great training for future ministry.

  • Community is an important value of the Kingdom Practicum. Therefore, most trainees will be required to live in the housing arrangements provided. Requests for other housing options will be considered; for example, someone who already lives in Minneapolis or St. Paul and would commute to the classes and activities.