How do Hubs Work?

Pastors and ministry leaders:

Fill out the application to start a Church Hub.
Once approved, your building can serve as a church-based learning centre for local students.
Eligible students can begin to integrate their studies with ministry and hands-on learning right in your church.

Students who are accepted students at either Horizon College & Seminary or Master’s College & Seminary are eligible to join the Church Hub in their local area.

We provide the education, the Church Hub provides the community, opportunity to serve, mentorship, and physical space.

With different Hub types, you’ve got options!

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Hub Types

Our different types of Hubs accommodate unique situations for both students and churches. (No “one-size-fits-all” approach here!)

Single Student Hub

A church that has one student ready to engage in ministry training at their church. Students will take classes remotely, although they may choose to travel once to four-times a year to take a one-week module on campus.

Multi-Student Hub

A church that has more than one student ready to engage in ministry training at their church and who may be willing to have other students from the area join their students as they engage in courses from Horizon or MCS (students from churches in the local area will typically engage in ministry at their respective home churches). While students will take most classes remotely, they may choose to travel once to four times a year to take a one-week module on campus and some classes may include in-person instruction at the Church Hub.

Destination Church Hub

A church that provides housing for multiple students, enabling them to engage in ministry training at the Church Hub. The cost of housing is to be determined by the Hub Church. Horizon or MCS will promote the hub as a location where students might choose to live and serve while they complete their programs. The church may also be willing to have other students from the local area join their students as they engage in courses from Horizon or MCS (students from churches in the local area will typically engage in ministry at their respective home churches). While students will take most classes remotely, they may choose to travel once to four times a year to take a one-week module on campus and some classes may include in-person instruction at the Church Hub.

Regional Church Hub

A church in a region where multiple churches are working together to establish a location where students from various churches will study together. Students from churches in the region will engage in ministry at their respective home churches. Students from outside the region are also welcome to move to study at the Regional Church Hub and serve at one of the churches in that region. While students will take most classes remotely, some classes may include in-person instruction at the Regional Church Hub.

Churches create a supportive learning environment for students and their peers by providing time and space to watch online class instruction and plugging them in to ministry service.

What’s expected from the Church Hub?

Each Church Hub will identify ministry opportunities for the student(s) and identify a Supervisor-Mentor who will meet periodically with the student(s) and report to the college by filling out an assessment form for each student at the end of each semester. Other requirements will vary depending on how much the church wishes to invest in their students and the desired level of college training.

Some Church Hubs will wish to invest more in students. This could include:

accountability and support for ongoing studies and academic challenges
weekly or bi-weekly mentorship and discipleship meetings
opportunities to engage in pastoral life at the church
officially identifying students as staff interns
planning other discipleship opportunities

“How big does our church need to be to become a Hub?”

Read our FAQs for answers to this and more!

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Additional Considerations

Has your church identified a potential student(s) who would join the Church Hub?
Is your church interested in hosting students who do not currently attend your church?
Do you have someone who can serve as a Supervisor-Mentor for students?
How much, if any, support is the Supervisor-Mentor prepared to give to students with respect to time management, academic challenges, spiritual formation, and ministry growth?
Would you want the college to provide most of the spiritual formation and ministry training for students, or would you desire to provide some of this for students? If so, how much?
In what ways could you integrate students into the life of the church?
How many hours of ministry service can your church provide to students?
Are there any ways that you can support a student(s) to help them reduce the amount of debt that they need to take on to complete their studies?
What tech and tech support, if any, is your church able to provide to facilitate courses?

Ready to start a Church Hub?

Talk to us about setting up a Church Hub in YOUR community by filling out the application form. If you have any other questions, please direct them to Todd Manuel.

Apply to Start a Hub

PAONL Churches: Apply Here