Additional Information

What do Prepare Network Residency Partnerships Offer?
Prepare Network Residency partnerships offer seminary credit for residential training to fulfill the requirements of NOBTS and Leavell College Applied Ministry courses.  In Applied Ministry courses, students  study  and  hone  practical skills in disciplines such as preaching, evangelism, and pastoral  ministry, etc. While taking  Applied Ministry courses through their residency program, students will enroll in courses in other disciplines (Old and New Testament, Systematic Theology, etc.) through NOBTS’s various distance education modalities.  

What Does a Residency Meeting Look Like?
Residency meetings are typically  discussion- based meetings on topic-specific course content. Students will read, complete assignments, and prepare for meetings as specified by the residency director course syllabus. In addition to the Residency meetings, students will gain practical experience serving in their local ministry context.

What About Curriculum?
Through the Prepare Network, NOBTS and Leavell College can partner with both pre-existing and new residency programs.  If you have a pre-existing residency and curriculum,  we can evaluate your syllabi and establish an agreement to confer seminary credit to your students for that training. If you do not have curriculum or would like to cultivate the academic component of a preexisting residency, we offer faculty-produced resource packs for each course which include everything a Residency Director would need.

What Courses Can Be Offered Through a Prepare Network Residency?

NOBTS Course	Leavell College
*Discipleship and Spiritual Formation	Intro to Discipleship
*Pastoral Ministry	Intro to Church Ministry
*Proclaiming the Bible	Intro to Preaching
*Preaching Practicum	Preaching Practicum
*Evangelism	Intro to Evangelism
*Christian Missions	Intro to Missions
*Church Leadership and Administration	Church Leadership and Organization
Teaching the Bible	Intro to Teaching
Teaching Practicum	Teaching Practicum
Women in Ministry Leadership	Intro to Ministry to Women
Mentoring in Gospel Ministry	Church Ministry Practicum
Leading Team-Based Ministry	Church Ministry Practicum
Church Business Administration	Church Ministry Practicum

*Courses marked with an asterisk are recommended as they are required by most degrees.

Residency Guidelines
- Students must apply and be accepted as NOBTS/LC students to earn credit.
- Prepare Network Residency students will pay a discounted tuition rate of $300/credit hour plus registration fees. Students will not pay online fees.
- Student grades are determined by the Residency Director and submitted to the Director of the Prepare Network no later than 2 weeks after the end of the semester or, in the case of graduating students, on the last day of exam week in the semester the student graduates.
- Students will register for residency courses through a unique link provided by the Prepare Network. Students will register for non-residency courses through the NOBTS/LC student portal.