Sponsored by Southeastern University and overseen and authored by the Leadership Network’s Director of Research Warren Bird, Ph.D., a new national study has revealed that Seventy-four percent of large churches offer their budding future leaders or pastors-in-training an internship or residency,
The study examined the leader training process of over 300 churches.
The findings have been detailed in a report titled Leaders in Training: Internships and Residencies Help Churches Shape Future Leaders.
Their findings include the fact that churches demonstrate a high level of confidence in the success of their programs, and the most important measure of that success is the maturity of the intern. Most churches offer multiple programs and specialties and the number of intern and resident programs has recently seen a brisk increase, the study finds.
The Leadership Network study also finds that the best interns and residents come from within the congregation itself, and after completing a program more than one-third of participants become church staff.
Serving over 200,000 leaders worldwide, the Leadership Network is a nonprofit organization that acts as a catalyst for innovation movements that enable the church to have greater impact for the glory of God, says the organization’s website.
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