Residency

Overview

The Apostolos Leadership Residency is a hands-on leadership development experience designed to identify, form, and send emerging leaders into meaningful ministry. Residents will be immersed in a healthy church environment where they will grow spiritually, develop leadership capacity, and gain real-world ministry experience.

This residency is built for individuals who sense a calling to ministry and are ready to be stretched, equipped, and deployed.

Purpose of the Residency

To develop leaders who are:

• Spiritually formed (deepening their relationship with Jesus)


• Practically equipped (able to lead in real ministry environments)


• Missionally sent (ready to serve where God calls them)

Core Components

1. Spiritual Formation

• Develop a consistent life with God (Scripture, prayer, rhythms)


• Participate in guided spiritual formation environments


• Engage in personal reflection and growth practices


• Receive pastoral care and mentorship

2. Leadership Development

• Participate in structured leadership training


• Learn principles of healthy church culture


• Develop communication, decision-making, and team leadership skills


• Build a personal leadership philosophy

3. Real-World Ministry Experience

• Serve in a specific ministry area under a Ministry Mentor


• Lead teams, environments, or initiatives


• Execute ministry assignments including:
  
  
  
  • Leading a team meeting
  
  
  • Recruiting and developing volunteers
  
  
  • Teaching or leading devotionals
  
  
  • Planning and executing a ministry event
  
  
  • Designing ministry systems or processes
  
  
  
  

4. Coaching & Feedback

• Weekly check-ins with a Ministry Mentor


• Ongoing evaluation and developmental feedback


• Health tracking across key areas:
  
  
  
  • Relational
  
  
  • Physical
  
  
  • Mental
  
  
  • Spiritual (RPMS)
  
  
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Fully engage in all residency environments and assignments


• Demonstrate initiative, ownership, and teachability


• Lead within assigned ministry area with excellence


• Build and invest in volunteer teams


• Participate in all required trainings, gatherings, and evaluations


• Maintain a posture of humility, growth, and alignment with church leadership

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a clear and growing faith in Jesus Christ


• Senses a calling toward ministry within the Church


• Teachable, humble, and willing to receive feedback


• Relationally healthy and able to work within teams


• Strong work ethic and willingness to take initiative


• Prior and consistent ministry involvement within the Church


• Participation in a Calling Lab/Discovery Weekend Experience

Time Commitment

• Part-Time or Full-Time pathways available


• Includes evenings and weekends (ministry environments)


• Participation in all scheduled residency gatherings and trainings is required

Program Elements

• Residency Launch Retreat


• Weekly Ministry Engagement


• Leadership Development Gatherings


• Biblical Foundations Cohorts


• Spiritual Formation Environments


• Ministry Mentor Coaching


• Midpoint and Final Evaluations