Dear Pastors and Board Chairs,
According to research from Rick Hiemstra of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, we will need 625 new leaders per year for the next 10 years just to keep up with pastoral retirement attrition1 – and that only accounts for senior leaders.
What does that mean for the future of Kingdom ministries?
We believe we can meet that need – and there are three ways you can help!
Whereas public colleges and universities are funded by governments, and parishes are funded by parishioners, YOU are our congregation.
Your support makes education more affordable for our students and for your future leaders.
We’re closing in on 100 churches in the process of becoming leadership training hubs – places where prospective leaders like those in YOUR congregation can respond to God’s call and serve in their own churches while earning an accredited education.
It’s totally scalable: hubs range from one student to over a dozen in churches large and small, rural and urban, with fully online and accessible undergraduate and master’s degree programs.
When we brought Horizon and MCS together in 2023, we envisioned a pathway to see leaders prepared for real-world ministry. And it’s working.
In our first year, we had over 270 emerging leaders from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. And we’re just getting started.
God is doing something amazing through this ministry – please pray for increase!
Your help prepares future leaders like Victoria, who responded this summer to God’s clear call to vocational ministry, changing her long-laid plans to begin a university business degree this fall to start ministry training at our college instead. Or leaders like Raye, an engineer and construction project coordinator, as he pursues an MA Ministry Leadership while serving co-vocationally as an associate pastor at his church.
Leader by future leader, we are eliminating the pipeline crisis and advancing God’s Kingdom beyond anything we might imagine.
Thank you for your help in this critical moment in our history.
You are making a difference.
To God be the glory,
Jeromey Martini, President
Horizon College & Seminary and Master’s College & Seminary
