ICAS-Accredited Degree Program
Master of Divinity in Global Mission
M.Div. credential
Pursue a professional ministry degree focused on sharing the gospel across cultures and helping new churches take root.
Master of Divinity in Global Mission: Your Grant Price
Applications are free. Eligible applicants receive their admission and Grant decision before any one-time program fee is requested.
Published tuition
$14,900.00
$599.00 Registry & Assessment Fee
$99
Master's Degree
2026 Life in Christ Grant is active
Ministry Experience, Evaluated Against Academic Standards.
Documented prior learning may be considered when it aligns with program outcomes; every credit decision follows academic review.
Program Overview
About this program
The Master of Divinity in global mission carries the full professional core with concentrated cross-cultural preparation. Cross-cultural ministry needs the full theological core and then a set of skills nobody uses at home: language acquisition, contextual judgement, and the discipline of handing leadership over. This ICAS-accredited Kingdom of Life University pathway carries the M.Div. core and concentrates it on service among people whose assumptions differ from yours at the root.
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Recognition of demonstrated learning in theology and ministry
Experienced ministry practitioners demonstrate competencies developed through years of service, theological study, and continuing learning. The assessment connects that learning with the published outcomes of the Master of Divinity in Global Mission through biblical understanding, theological reflection, research, and ministry judgment.
70
Audited questions in this pathway bank
30
Questions drawn for each sitting
60 minutes
Time available for the knowledge component
24 hours
Interval before reassessment
Theological knowledge and degree outcomes
- Published bank title
- Master of Divinity: Global Mission - Master Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
- Credential
- Master of Divinity (M.Div.) in Global Mission
- Question construction
- 14 pathway subject-bank sources contribute 5 questions each, producing the complete 70-question bank.
How completion is reported
- The knowledge component contributes 40% and assessed ministry experience contributes 60% to one weighted result.
- The reported result is no lower than 80%, matching the 80% degree pass mark.
- Reassessment draws a fresh question set and is included in program access, with no additional fee or limit on sittings.
- The integrated assessment covers the published degree plan; separate course assessments, a capstone paper, and a dissertation defense are not required.
Program Objectives
What you will achieve
Integrate advanced theological study, spiritual maturity, and ministry wisdom for Christian leadership
Ground mission in the whole biblical narrative
Communicate accurately across cultural distance
Plant with indigenous leadership and self-support in view from the start
Sustain cross-cultural service and care for those sent
Learning Outcomes
Skills and competencies you will develop
Synthesize advanced biblical and theological evidence for clear teaching, leadership, and ministry judgment
Produce a biblical theology of mission that goes beyond commission texts
Analyse a cultural context and adapt communication accordingly
Design a church planting plan with a stated handover timeline
Build a member care plan covering preparation, field, crisis, and re-entry
Career Opportunities
Where this degree can take you
Missionary
Cross-cultural church planter
Missions pastor
Agency field leader
Major Subject Areas
The fourteen subjects you study, and the ones the ministry assessment draws on
Foundational and Major-Core Subjects
Four foundations every pathway shares, then four that belong to this field.
Advanced Biblical Interpretation
Exegesis done with translation and cross-cultural communication in view, where ambiguity cannot always be preserved.
Advanced Old Testament Theology
The Old Testament's account of the nations, and the texts that make sense of a God who elects one people for the sake of all.
Advanced New Testament Theology
The New Testament's own cross-cultural crisis, and the decisions in Acts and Galatians that still govern contextualisation.
Advanced Christian Doctrine
Doctrine that has to survive translation into a culture with different assumptions about guilt, honour, community and the dead.
Advanced Biblical Exegesis for Ministry
Exegesis for ministry, covering method and tools, and the preparation of Scripture for communication across linguistic and cultural distance.
Advanced Theology of Mission
A theology of mission drawn from the whole biblical narrative rather than from the commission texts alone.
Advanced Intercultural Communication
Intercultural communication, covering worldview, high and low context, honour and shame, and the misreadings that recur in cross-cultural work.
Advanced Language and Culture Acquisition
Acquiring language and culture, covering learning method, plateau, the humility the process requires, and the years it actually takes.
Specialization Subjects
Six more that take the field into the places it actually gets used.
Advanced Contextual Theology and Practice
Contextual theology in practice, covering the models, the criteria for faithfulness, and the judgement calls that cannot be deferred to a manual.
Advanced Cross-Cultural Church Planting
Church planting across cultures, covering indigenous leadership, self-support, local forms, and the handover that is too often postponed.
Advanced Member Care and Endurance
Member care and endurance, covering preparation, field support, crisis, re-entry, and the avoidable causes of attrition.
Advanced Partnership With the Global Church
Partnership with the global church, covering funding asymmetry, accountability, and mission understood as multi-directional.
Advanced Spiritual Formation and Christian Vocation
Formation for a life of language failure, isolation and slow results, and the practices that sustain it.
Advanced Integrative Theology and Ministry
A cross-cultural project with contextual analysis, intervention and evaluation, including a stated handover plan.
Admission Requirements
What you need to apply
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited or recognized institution
- Official transcripts showing preparation appropriate to graduate theological study
- Statement of theological, academic, and ministry goals
- Current resume or curriculum vitae
- Two ministry, professional, or academic recommendations
Degree Completion Requirements
Requirements for the Master of Divinity
Graduation Requirements
- Complete at least 36 graduate semester credits in the approved degree plan
- Pass the Competency-Based Ministry Assessment for the degree
- Satisfy every graduate-core, specialization, elective, and comprehensive requirement group
- Integrate theological knowledge with assessed ministry experience under the published result-weighting policy
- Recognize demonstrated learning against every published degree-plan requirement
Culminating Experience
Demonstrate graduate theological understanding and ministry judgment through Competency-Based Ministry Assessment, recognizing advanced learning developed through prior study and service.
Credit Distribution
| Requirement Area | Credits | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Graduate Core | 21 | 7 courses. Required advanced theory, methods, and professional competencies of the discipline. |
| Graduate Specialization | 9 | 3 courses. Focused graduate study in an approved concentration or practice area. |
| Graduate Elective | 3 | 1 course. Any master-level major course from any school that is not already part of this degree plan. |
| Competency-Based Ministry Assessment | 3 | 1 course. Integrated graduate theological knowledge and assessed ministry experience, recognizing demonstrated learning across the published degree plan. |
| Total Degree Credits | 36 | All requirements must be completed within the approved degree plan. |
Program Details
Program Length
Self-Paced
Self-Paced Learning
Total Credits
36 credit hours
Up to 18 Transfer Credits
Published Degree Plan
12 courses
Across 4 required curriculum groups
Format
Flexible Study
Assessment Format
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Selected Degree
Master
School
School of Theology and Ministry
Institutional Status
ICAS Accredited
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