Theological Hall

You should consider a Theological Hall if…

• You want pastors and ministry leaders formed in the place they will serve — not abstracted from it.
• You have a local church or network of churches willing to disciple, examine, and place candidates from this Hall.
• You see Faith & Worship as a sector strengthened by pastors who know their congregations before, during, and after their formation.

From sketch to launch.

1. 01
   Demo Your Hall

   10–15 minutes in the sketch tool. Place, sector, Blueprint, programs.
2. 02
   Talk with a Field Guide

   A Field Guide familiar with your region works with you to refine the vision.
3. 03
   Onboard and Launch

   Program selection, Director training, tutor recruitment, and site setup. Typically three to six months.

Theological education has followed the same trajectory as every other form of professional formation: consolidation, credentialization, and geographic concentration. Seminaries cluster in cities and university towns. Their graduates are formed in environments abstracted from the local church — shaped by academic theology, placed by denominational machinery, and often deployed to communities they do not know and have not chosen. The result is a pastoral culture that is theologically educated but relationally thin. The pastor knows his systematics. He does not know his place.

The Theological Hall is a different model. It begins with the local church and the local elder board. The candidate for ministry is known by name — by his pastor, his elders, his congregation — before he is known by a faculty. His formation happens in the community that called him and will receive him back. The theological curriculum is rigorous — biblical languages, church history, systematic and pastoral theology, homiletics — but it is taught within a formation community that is accountable to a real ecclesial body, not an academic institution.

CHI's Theological Halls span the historic Christian confessions. Each tradition — Anglican, Baptist, Reformed, Methodist, Catholic — has its own formation network within the CHI ecosystem, and Theological Halls within each tradition are shaped by that tradition's theological commitments and liturgical practices. The shared conviction is simple: pastors formed in the places they serve are better pastors, and churches that form their own leaders are stronger churches. The Theological Hall is the institutional expression of that conviction.

Master of Divinity

The standard credential for pastoral ordination. Biblical languages, systematic theology, church history, homiletics, and pastoral ministry — completed in the context of the local church.

Master of Arts — Ministry

Focused graduate formation for ministry leaders who are not pursuing parish ordination — children's ministry, worship, and community chaplaincy.