Learn How to Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth and Young Adults
This 60-credit-hour online program equips you with the skills and knowledge to minister effectively to children, adolescents, and young adults within your community. Emphasizing evangelism, pastoral counseling, and strategic outreach, the NextGen ministry degree teaches you to design age-appropriate spiritual formation programs, utilize in-person and digital discipleship tools, and address generational and developmental needs. The program also focuses on global and digital discipleship along with options to tailor coursework and field experience to your career objectives.
Here’s How We’ll Prepare You for Ministry
Your Career Paths and Ministry Opportunities
The valuable insight and practical skills you’ll gain through our Associate in NextGen Ministry will allow you to serve as a:
- Children’s ministry director
- Digital evangelism coordinator
- NextGen pastoral counselor
- Community outreach coordinator
- Christian education director
- Youth pastor
- Young adults pastor
Life at Moody Online
Moody Online will welcome you into a diverse online community of fellow students from around the world, encouraging you to build relationships as you learn online. You’ll also:
- Deepen your biblical knowledge in every class.
- Apply what you learn in your real-life ministry.
- Grow spiritually as you pursue God’s calling on your life.
- Watch chapel online.
- Access library services.
Meet Our Faculty
Andrew Beaty
Sample Core Classes
- Theology and Philosophy of Children, Youth, and Family Ministry
- Missional Media Strategies
- NextGen Counseling Skills and Issues
- Strategic NextGen Outreach and Discipleship
- Child Development
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