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Equipping Student Ministers

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  • Come be a part of being equipped and empowered with a community of leaders that all have the same passion — reaching and mobilizing students with the gospel!

    Shane Pruitt

    Adjunct Faculty

  • The Lord’s desire to use students, combined with many unique challenges related to their developmental age and contemporary culture, make specialized training in student ministry crucial for today.

    Scott Pace

    Provost, Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Ministry

  • Now more than ever we must think deeply about how the church can partner with parents in leading students to know and treasure Jesus as lifelong disciples.

    Jason Engle

    Associate Director of EdD Studies

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Student Ministry Degrees

DMin Student Ministry

This track is designed for those ministering to students in middle and high school. The curriculum aims to challenge student ministry leaders in the following ways:

  1. To establish a ministry philosophy that bears a Great Commission DNA throughout student ministry structure and practice.
  2. To obtain a holistic awareness of adolescent identity that integrates physical, psychological, and emotional development with a robust biblical anthropology, for the purpose of ministering well to students in their unique season of life.
  3. To distinguish the proper role of student ministry within the local church’s pursuit of the Great Commission and the parents’ role as the primary disciple-makers for their own children, and to equip parents to embody their crucial role while partnering with them in leading students to know and treasure Jesus in their lives.
  4. To identify and pursue ministry objectives that align with God’s grand plan of redemption and that lead students toward spiritual maturity in Christ.
  5. To develop and apply biblically faithful frameworks for cultural discernment that help students and parents cultivate spiritual wisdom and understanding and that generate a missional culture fueled by authentic, faithful, and meaningful gospel expression in the world.
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Dr. Tate Cockrell

“I cannot imagine attempting to do student ministry today without advanced training in understanding the challenges facing today’s youth. The new DMin in Student Ministry is gospel focused, biblically sound, theologically rich, missionally driven, and culturally relevant. It will prepare student ministers to meet the challenges facing students today. The program will take advantage of the latest research on adolescent development in combination with practitioners with decades of ministry experience.”

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Charles B. Keesee Educational Fund

Qualifying Southeastern students receive between $4,150 to $7,750 per year towards their tuition from the Charles B. Keesee Educational Fund. The Keesee fund benefits Baptist students who are residents of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, or West Virginia and who are enrolled on campus as students of many ministry-related degree programs, including the Master of Divinity. Click the links below to find out if your degree qualifies!

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Mercy Scholarship

The Mercy Scholarship provides tuition funding for Southeastern students enrolled in the Master of Divinity in the following specializations: Preaching and Pastoral Ministry, International Church Planting, Missiology, North American Church Planting, Pastoral Ministry with Biblical Counseling, Christian Ministry, Church Revitalization, and the Advanced MDiv. Certain specializations can receive up to $6,000 a year! Apply for Southeastern’s Institutional Aid to see if you qualify for the Mercy Scholarship.

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