Certificate in Christian Foundations (CBTE) – Northwest Seminary & College

Certificate in Christian Foundations - CBTE

Overview

The CBTE Certificate in Christian Foundations (CCF) is a one-year program that not only helps you discover where God is taking you in life, it also helps you get there. Mentors, instructional seminars, and learning experiences guide you as you develop the knowledge, skill, and character competencies essential for service and leadership in and outside church ministry contexts. We partner with churches and missional organizations to mentor students in the program, so you can have a place to apply what you are learning, try new things, meet new people, and figure out what your next step in life will be after you lay foundations for a distinctly Christian life.

Program Type & Languages

10 Outcomes
30 Credit Hours
1-Year Completion Date

> Based on the principles of competency-based theological education

> Mentored-directed learning

> Experience hands-on ministry

> Cohort learning

EN | FR

The CBTE Certificate in Christian Foundations (CCF) is available in English and French.

Discover your next step and be equipped to love God, and love your neighbour as yourself, in your context.

Program Objectives

Purpose:

The CCF focuses on the foundations of Christian faith to give learners solid biblical and theological ground to stand on in an unstable world. Through this program, students are equipped to love God and love their neighbours as themselves in their contexts.

Program Learning Objectives:
Northwest's Certificate in Christian Foundations will equip you to:

Bible: Communicate the meaning of a scriptural passage at a personal and person-to-person level.
Theology: Survey historic and modern Christian thought to describe Christianity’s essential doctrines.
Formation: Define worship and discipleship and be shaped by the ordinances, practices, disciplines, and habits that nurture worship and discipleship.
Ministry: Recognize the church as a primary means by which God speaks to, saves, and shapes people and participate in speaking, saving, and shaping through service in a local church.
Culture: Respectfully differentiate a Christian worldview from other worldviews.
General Studies: Develop cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills.

Requirements

Application Requirements

Inquiry

Interested applicants employed or connected with one of our partner networks must contact their network lead. Those unconnected to a partner organization are asked to contact Northwest.

Assessment

Each partner network operates their own assessment in consultation with the seminary on academic requirements.

Application

Those who successfully complete the assessment process are invited to apply to the program.

Sample Outcomes

Partners

Northwest partners with churches and missional organizations to deliver custom programming through our context-based theological education model. Northwest also offers the CCF to English-language speakers not connected to one of our partners. If you are not connected to, or a member of, any of the following organizations, please contact Northwest. If you are connected to one of the organizations, please follow their link and connect with their listed contact person.