Residency

Overview

The Apostolos Leadership Residency is a hands-on leadership development experience designed to identify, form, and send emerging leaders into meaningful ministry. Residents will be immersed in a healthy church environment where they will grow spiritually, develop leadership capacity, and gain real-world ministry experience.

This residency is built for individuals who sense a calling to ministry and are ready to be stretched, equipped, and deployed.

Purpose of the Residency

To develop leaders who are:

• Spiritually formed (deepening their relationship with Jesus)
• Practically equipped (able to lead in real ministry environments)
• Missionally sent (ready to serve where God calls them)

Core Components

1. Spiritual Formation

• Develop a consistent life with God (Scripture, prayer, rhythms)
• Participate in guided spiritual formation environments
• Engage in personal reflection and growth practices
• Receive pastoral care and mentorship

2. Leadership Development

• Participate in structured leadership training
• Learn principles of healthy church culture
• Develop communication, decision-making, and team leadership skills
• Build a personal leadership philosophy

3. Real-World Ministry Experience

• Serve in a specific ministry area under a Ministry Mentor
• Lead teams, environments, or initiatives
• Execute ministry assignments including:
  • Leading a team meeting
  • Recruiting and developing volunteers
  • Teaching or leading devotionals
  • Planning and executing a ministry event
  • Designing ministry systems or processes

4. Coaching & Feedback

• Weekly check-ins with a Ministry Mentor
• Ongoing evaluation and developmental feedback
• Health tracking across key areas:
  • Relational
  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Spiritual (RPMS)

Key Responsibilities

• Fully engage in all residency environments and assignments
• Demonstrate initiative, ownership, and teachability
• Lead within assigned ministry area with excellence
• Build and invest in volunteer teams
• Participate in all required trainings, gatherings, and evaluations
• Maintain a posture of humility, growth, and alignment with church leadership

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a clear and growing faith in Jesus Christ
• Senses a calling toward ministry within the Church
• Teachable, humble, and willing to receive feedback
• Relationally healthy and able to work within teams
• Strong work ethic and willingness to take initiative
• Prior and consistent ministry involvement within the Church
• Participation in a Calling Lab/Discovery Weekend Experience

Time Commitment

• Part-Time or Full-Time pathways available
• Includes evenings and weekends (ministry environments)
• Participation in all scheduled residency gatherings and trainings is required

Program Elements

• Residency Launch Retreat
• Weekly Ministry Engagement
• Leadership Development Gatherings
• Biblical Foundations Cohorts
• Spiritual Formation Environments
• Ministry Mentor Coaching
• Midpoint and Final Evaluations