Great Lakes Region
Multiplication Residency
Ministry is too important for you to feel unprepared. The world needs people like you to be all you were created to be!
The Great Lakes Region (GLR) church multiplication residency program offers a dynamic, hands-on experience designed to equip participants for a lifetime of effective ministry. Residents will engage in ministry activities that foster growth in key areas such
as evangelism, church multiplication, and leadership development. The program emphasizes practical experience and self-reflection, enabling participants to actively serve within the church while cultivating personal growth and spiritual maturity. This program typically lasts about 2 years.
Interested in becoming a multiplication resident?
Learning Commitments
This learning framework focuses on key areas essential for effective ministry leadership and service. It emphasizes a culture of church multiplication, pastoral responsibilities, and spiritual development and soul care, engagement in GLR initiatives, excellence in preaching and teaching, and growth in organizational leadership are also prioritized. Additionally, it includes a commitment to personal and corporate evangelism, fostering Kingdom Force and cultural diversity, and pursuing licensing and ordination pathways. These commitments serve to develop well-rounded, mission-driven leaders prepared for impactful ministry.
Learning Commitments Required
-Attend the CM Boot Camp at the GLR
-Meet with CM directors to review your new ministry plan
-Interview 2 church planters
Get Started and Apply!
If you feel that God is calling you to take a next step into ministry by becoming a resident with the GLR, we would love to learn more about you and see if this might be a best fit!
Optional Learning Commitments Determined by Resident Leader
-Read Hero Maker
-Read Church Plantology by Peyton Jones
-Attend a launch team meeting of a church plant and interview the planters
-Attend a house church / micro church gathering
-Read becoming a Level 5 Multiplying Church
-Attend Church Planters Assessment Center / Wiring Assessment as determined by Coach
-Sit in on 2 assessment interviews of a potential church planters
-Meet with coach to debrief Assessment process and next steps for development
-Recruit Team to help start a new ministry and provide training for this team
-Attend and serve at Exponential conference
-Create a discipleship pathway for your church plant that includes “calling”
Interested in the pathways to licensing and ordination? Click here!
Scholarship opportunities available for GLR Multiplication Residents!
Location Offerings
Berkley Hills Community Church
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Berkley is more than a building, a program, a worship style, or even an organization. We are a living, moving, and growing body made of uncommon people who together for a common purpose: knowing Jesus and being Jesus. Our vision is to multiply and continue to be a sending church as we equip people to bring the gospel to their world. www.berkleyhills.org
Frontline Community Church
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Frontline Community Church is part of a network of churches called the Zero Collective. Currently, there are three churches in the collective that minister in three different contexts. The vision for the Zero Collective is for zero people to remain unchanged by the love of Jesus.
Red Cedar Church
Rice Lake, Wisconsin
Red Cedar Church is located in the beautiful Northwoods of Wisconsin. Our vision and mission is to lead people to a full life in Jesus Christ through an emphasis on community in small groups, discipleship, and outreach initiatives that show the irrational generosity God first showed us. We believe that God has called us to raise up leaders and multiply in rural communities around us through alternative venues, satellite variations, and church planting. www.redcedarchurch.com
Kentwood Community Church
Kentwood, Michigan
Kentwood Community Church is a church of and for the nations and is a safe space where you will be loved, seen, heard and known, and where the love of Jesus is shared with all. We aspire to live as disciple-making, leader raising, Christ-followers, who multiple healthy multiethnic expressions around the world, as we live out our mission to know Jesus and make Him known! For those who are interested in going into ministry, our residency program presents an alternative to the traditional seminary path.
To learn more about our church, visit kentwoodcommunitychurch.com
or to apply, kccresidencyapp.
Lakeview Community Church
Lakeview, Michigan
Lakeview Community Church is a ten-year-old, mission-minded, and community-engaged church in rural Michigan. Community involvement and outreach are a high priority for Lakeview, as 69% of people in the county have no religious affiliation. We use a multi-faceted strategy to reach into the community that includes participation in schools, community-wide functions, food distribution, and church planting.