Applications open for 2025 GCF Leadership Experience.

Applications close.

All applicants are notified if they are successful and further information about the Leadership Experience is sent. A non-refundable deposit of $1,000 is due by 1st October 2024.

Final decisions on applications. Applicants are informed of the outcomes.

A non-refundable deposit of $1,000 is paid. Mentors and supervisors are contacted and ready to begin this journey with participants.

• Mentoring begins
• Online meetings begin
• Community research assignments begin

The balance of the full fee ($1,100) is due.

Participants come together in Uganda for a four-week intensive residential where they will learn from one another and expert facilitators. Learning will be biblically-based, interactive and experiential. The elements of the intensive are:

• Biblical foundations: children, family and faith community in the Big Story of God
• The context in which children live: the implications for children’s ministry of the diverse sub-cultures in which a child’s worldview is shaped
• Transformational faith formation in children: bringing hope to children so that they bring hope to those around them
• Godly leadership: the qualities and the skills of a Kingdom leader of children’s ministry

The GCF values of servanthood, generosity, integrity and trust will be the foundation stones of the GCF LE community that is built.

• Regular online course teaching sessions continue
• Regular meetings with mentor and supervisor continue
• Regular online community groups continue with discussions and learning assignments around children’s ministry topics
• Participants complete a Ministry Project as agreed with their supervisor and GCF Leadership Experience Facilitators. This project will intentionally relate Leadership Experience learning to the ministry in which the person is involved
• Plans for online graduation for 15th November 2025

Graduates are awarded a GCF Leadership Experience Certificate endorsed by the Evangelical Theological College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Certificates will be awarded at an online graduation ceremony uniting participants and facilitators from across the globe.