Leadership Spring 2025 Class
Time: Tuesdays at 7 pm (PST)
Duration: A 7-week class meeting once a week starting 2/4/25.
Class Format: This course is delivered entirely online using Zoom. This class contains synchronous (live) and asynchronous (anytime) components. Classes will meet live for weekly, 90-minute online sessions.
Brandon O’Sullivan
Class Description: Our world is experiencing an ongoing leadership crisis - from politics to business, to religious institutions, leadership is often used for personal gain and to the detriment of others. Jesus Christ has a different vision for leadership, one that blesses people by empowering and equipping them to serve God with all they have. This class will examine the theological and biblical foundations for leadership and provide practical insights for leadership in the church and in all of life.
Teacher: Brandon O’Sullivan has been in full-time ministry (and a Santa Cruz local) since 2008 - he has led teams in children, student, and young adult ministries. In 2018 he and his wife Laura planted Gospel Community Church in Santa Cruz, a thriving young church with a heart to reach the city, equip leaders, and plant churches. Brandon has degrees from The Master's University and Reformed Theological Seminary and is currently finishing a doctorate in leadership from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Register for the Leadership Spring 2024 Class
OUR VISION
Great Commission Training Institute (GCTI) is the equipping component of Operation Great Commission with the premise that leadership development is essential to church health and gospel impact. The goal is to equip reproducible disciple-makers and provide quality training accessible and affordable to pastors, church lay leaders, ministry wives, and bi-vocational leaders.
OUR MISSION
Provide an online model of certificate or non-certificate programs for church leaders to attain a higher level of ministry skills, knowledge, and grow as reproducible disciple-makers.
Also:
Provide opportunities to serve as teachers/workshop leaders.
Provide relational & practical internship and field training.
Provide ministry opportunities at GCA churches, church plants, replants, revitalization programs, and pulpit supply.
CURRICULUM
We use the pastors to pastors (P2P) curriculum to train potential leaders, lay leaders, pastors, and pastors’ wives to become reproducible disciple-makers who abide in Christ. The 12 class P2P curriculum includes discipleship, missions, and church planting, evangelism, hermeneutics, Old Testament survey, New Testament survey, applied church history, leadership (pastoral/lay ministry), teaching/preaching, theology of the church, theology of God, and theology of Salvation.
We offer a Spanish class on Mondays from 7-8:30pm and an English class on Tuesdays from 7-8:30pm. We have different English and Spanish classes to encourage bilingual students who wish to take two classes during the same term.
COST
$25/course (plus online transaction fees) for GCA churches & GCA employees.
$50/course (plus online transaction fees) for non-GCA churches.
Payment can be made on the GCTI registration form or via check.
Please mail checks payable to GCA to 17705 Hale Ave., Building H, Suite 4, Morgan Hill, CA 95037.
If you are paying for a group, please list the students' first and last names on the registration form. Each student will need to fill out this registration form individually and indicate that your church will make a group payment.
PROGRAM
General Program Brochure
Certificate Program
All students apply to the program (pastoral endorsement required)
Will be presented a certificate of completion at GCA annual meeting
Pastor Endorsement Form for GCTI Certificate Program
Open Program (Non-Certificate)
Open to all GCA churches and SBC churches
Any Time Option
Our GCTI classes are also available through an any time asynchronous format. Contact Chris Smith for more information.
Languages
English and Spanish
Other languages as needed
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
Summer 2021 (May-June)
Hermeneutics
Fall 2021 (Aug - Sept)
Missions/Church Planting
Winter 2021 (Oct - Dec)
Leadership
Spring 2022 (Feb - March)
Teaching/Preaching
Summer 2022 (May - June)
Old Testament
Fall 2022 (Aug - Sept)
Theology of the Church
Winter 2022 (Oct-Dec)
Evangelism
2023 Classes
Theology of God, Discipleship, Theology of Salvation, Church History
2024 Classes
Old Testament, Hermeneutics, New Testament, Evangelism
CONTACT
Dr. Chris Smith
CHRIS.SMITH@GCASBC.ORG