CENTER FOR LATINO STUDIES

Certificate in Wesleyan-Pentecostal Ministry

(90 credit hours)

Wilfredo Estrada-Adorno, Director

Pentecostal Theological Seminary (PTS) has developed a Certificate in Wesleyan Pentecostal Ministry (CWPM) to engage students in an integrated course of study that qualifies them to do seminary academic work. This program ensures the development of core knowledge and learning competencies in eight key areas. This program has been designed following the guidelines provided by a Joint Commission of the Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH) and the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), which seeks to provide students who have successfully completed Bible institutes or denominational education a pathway to continue to graduate level training.

The content of theCWPM is designed to help students develop a biblical theology that enables them to appropriate the redemptive message of the Christian faith and serve with the spirit of the servant leader to their communities. All this ministerial formation is provided within the context of Wesleyan-Pentecostal theology.

Both the Center and Certificate emphasize academic quality, social and cultural sensitivity for students, and the unequivocal commitment to the church and society as servant/leaders. The program is part of the non-graduate credit certificate curriculum of PTS and helps students complete the necessary requirements for admission into the Master Programs of PTS.   

Certificate in Wesleyan-Pentecostal Ministry Outcomes

• 1. To help ministers within and outside the Church of God, whether full-time, part-time, or volunteer, to bring their academic development to seminary entrance qualification level.

  2. To offer a seminary qualifying academic program in order to train and equip biblical, theological, and in the area of general studies, ministers in the USA and around the world.

  3. To equip students for entrance into and completion of Master's Degree Programs of the Pentecostal Theological Seminary of the Church of God.

  4. To provide ministry training for that promotes Wesleyan-Pentecostal praxis that is committed to the mission of the Church.

Program Structure and Mobility

The CWPM consists of 90 credits hours which are divided as follows:

Area I: Biblical Studies, 24 credits;

Area II: Theological and Historical Studies, 24 credits;

Area III: Life and Ministry of the Church and Pastoral Formation, 24 credits

Area IV: Personal Formation for Ministry Studies 3 credits; and

Area V: Studies Related to Ministry Training, 15 credits

The total credit hours to complete this program are 90. The program combines on-campus, synchronous, hybrid, and online delivery methods.

For a full description of the Center and the CWMP see the Center’s “Student Handbook”.