When you are selected to become a member of the CCO staff, you accept the privilege and assume the responsibility of participating in our extensive training program. This program continues throughout your entire time on staff and involves formal study as well as practical implementation. You will be nurtured both personally and professionally throughout your time on staff.
Before you begin your campus work in the fall, you will participate in an intensive five-week new staff training program designed to lay the foundation for your ministry. During that time, you and other incoming staff will participate in courses designed to enhance your theological and theoretical understanding of ministry.
Throughout your first year on staff, you will meet regularly with a Training Team of fellow new staff members, a Trainer and an Area Director. As a team, you will work through a curriculum designed specially to help you excel in your work, applying it to your life and ministry. Four times during the academic year, you will join the entire staff for Staff Seminars—refreshing times of fellowship and teaching which motivate us all for our continued work on campus. At the end of each academic year, the entire staff comes together for Spring Institute, an intensive training time. You will participate in one of several courses taught by various seminary and college professors. Courses are offered in theology, biblical studies, counseling, and other topics related to ministry, higher education and the campus context.
In addition to training events, field-based seminars and workshops are available to you. These seminars span a wide range of topics and seek to equip both you and your students with essential campus ministry skills. Topics include evangelism, vocational discipleship, Bible study, team-building, experiential education, strategic planning, racial reconciliation and gender issues.
You may also choose to begin your master of higher education or seminary degree at a significantly decreased cost while working with us, if you participate in one of our graduate programs .
to develop men and women who live out their Christian faith in every area of life.
