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Intercessor church is a TUMI satelite

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Intercessor Church is a TUMI Satelite

The church of the Intercessor is a TUMI Satellite.  You can take the courses in the evenings once a week.  Affordable: The cost of attending TUMI is about $100 per module. Recognizing that many of our students may have a limited income, we plan on offsetting the costs by sharing supplemental reading materials with other TUMI programs and also offering scholarships.

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The Essence of TUMI

TUMI is Real Christian Leadership Training

Church-based Seminary

Since 1995, The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) has trained urban church leaders with seminary-level education geared towards urban life. By building partnerships with churches, organizations, and denominations, TUMI sites are established. These centers allow for emerging leaders to be trained with affordable and accessible gospel-centered leadership development, church renewal, and spiritual formation.

TUMI is wholly committed to retrieving the Great Tradition for the revitalization of the urban church to empower and impact urban neighborhoods for Christ. Check out the TUMI website to look further into partnerships and initiatives to see how we can partner together for the expansion of the Kingdom of God.

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Capstone Curriculum is a 16-module training program, taught at a seminary level, which we specifically designed to serve as the most essential knowledge and skill learning necessary for effective urban ministry and church leadership.

Each module (course) comes with a Mentor’s Guide, a Student Workbook and two DVD’s (four hours of video). Each module also has required supplemental textbooks. This curriculum is designed to be used in a variety of formats, time frames, and venues. As a complete training curriculum, it may be accessed through The Urban Ministry Institute’s Satellite Certificate program. With this curriculum, you will have everything you need to equip yourself and your leaders for effective ministry in your church and community.

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An Overview of the Capstone Curriculum

The Capstone Curriculum is a 16-module training program, taught at a seminary level, which we specifically designed to serve as the most essential knowledge and skill learning necessary for effective urban ministry and church leadership.  Although each module contains its own specific list of objectives to guide mentors and students through the material, below you will find our eight overall objectives we seek to implement across our Capstone Curriculum:

To ground emerging urban leaders in the Gospel of Christ, enabling them to know the basics of conversion and their own calling to salvation and leadership

To root our students in the indispensability of the Church to serve as both agent and locus of the Kingdom, and for them to serve the church practically and specifically in the local assembly

To equip urban leaders with the necessary study skills to study, apply, teach, preach, and minister the Word of God in the urban context, applying their learning in the context of their own personal lives and church ministries

To challenge urban leaders to regularly memorize select portions of Scripture, and develop the discipline of review to retain and utilize texts both devotionally and in ministry

To establish urban leaders in a Christ-centered vision of Scripture, and equip them in a Nicene-based, biblical theology that is congruent with the historic orthodox faith of the Great Tradition

To provide a biblical foundation for both understanding and practicing Christian leadership in the context of the Church, with a special emphasis and appreciation for spiritual formation in urban communities, especially among the poor.

To train urban leaders to evangelize, disciple, plant, pastor, and minister within evangelical urban churches which will be spiritually vital, culturally conducive, and aggressively reproductive within the various people groups needing Christ in the city

To encourage urban leaders to find practical, meaningful ways to promote justice and demonstrate mercy with the broken and needy in urban communities, and discover ways to display hospitality, generosity, and compassion in the places where they live and minister

Each module (course) comes with a Mentor’s Guide, a Student Workbook and two DVD’s (four hours of video). Each module also has required supplemental textbooks. This curriculum is designed to be used in a variety of formats, time frames, and venues. As a complete training curriculum, it may be accessed through The Urban Ministry Institute’s Satellite Certificate program. With this curriculum you will have everything you need to equip yourself and your leaders for effective ministry in your church and community.

Accreditation and Capstone:

An Overview of the Capstone Curriculum with all of the Module Descriptions and Lesson Objectives.

Here is a very helpful document that will give you information on Capstone for your review. This document will help you get a thorough understanding of the overall schema of Capstone as well as each particular module’s content and objectives. This is the document that our partners have used to determine their level of accreditation for our resource and their institution of higher education. This is a great resource for your mentors!