New Wine Training Partnership (NWTP)
Practically focused - Spirit empowered - Academically challenging
The NWTP provides training for Kingdom leadership, ministry and mission. It is a partnership between New Wine, Westminster Theological Centre (WTC) and local churches, delivering University-accredited courses combining practical and formational training with Bible-based theology delivered in the context of New Wine values.
Students attend the course as part of a worshipping and learning community based in local ‘Hubs’ across the UK and the Channel Islands. A Hub is made up of local churches hosting the teaching and providing placements for student interns, and crucially allow an environment in which the classroom teaching is put into practice.
The NWTP is for those from any background seeking to go deeper into God’s Word, and explore their call to leadership, mission or service. It's also for churches interested in the local training of a group of students who will contribute energy, passion and wisdom to church life.
Courses in Kingdom Theology
With classes on weekday evenings, these courses are ideal for those who have busy lives and either work full-time or have an active family life. Offered in nine Hub locations across the country, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, the courses are designed to provide a greater depth of understanding of the practical aspects of theology in an environment of worship, prayer and community with other students.
Courses Available:
- Certificate in Kingdom Theology (leading to BA) Find out more
- Graduate Diploma in Kingdom Theology (leading to MA) Find out more
- MA Degree for theology graduates. Find out more
WTC taster days in 2012
Guernsey - 10 March
Jersey - 17 March
East Anglia - 31 March
Glos & Manchester - 14 April
Hampshire & Lake District - 12 May
The School of Leadership and Mission (SLaM)
SLaM is a new venture bringing together advanced training in biblical mission, leadership and theology with practical real-world experience in an entrepreneurial local church or business.
The course provides essential grounding and training for anyone considering full-time church leadership (pastor, worship pastor, youth or kids pastor), church planting or effective mission in the world of business. The programme lasts for three years and on completion you will receive a Foundation Degree (FdA) in Leadership, Ministry and Mission from the University of Chester (other qualifications are available if you leave the course early).
The Foundation Degree has only become possible through the development of the New Wine Training Partnership that brings together WTC (the academic provider) and local churches in a common effort to find a new form of education that is both highly practical and academically rigorous.
Courses Available:
- School of Leadership & Mission Find out more
A message from WTC:
The Board of Trustees of WTC announces that Crispin Fletcher-Louis has tendered his resignation as Principal of WTC with effect from the end of this academic year (July 2012). His decision was made with much heart searching but Crispin has come to the conclusion that, for personal reasons, he wishes to step down.
We, together with our strategic partner, New Wine, who along with the Hubs and their churches represent the New Wine Training Partnership, would like to record our immense gratitude to Crispin for his dedication and vision in creating high quality Kingdom focussed accredited theological training grounded in the context of worship, teaching and ministry. We are grateful to Crispin for his desire to facilitate an orderly transition and handover with minimum disruption to our students and other key stakeholders.
We will be seeking to appoint a new Principal for WTC who will continue to build on Crispin’s legacy of academic rigour, combined with a practical emphasis and a Spirit empowerment that is critical in serving the New Wine Training Partnership and the wider church.
Crispin, for his part, wishes to thank all those who he has worked with over the last few years—the Hub Church leaders, Hub Directors, the Centre’s Staff, the Faculty team, the students and New Wine, all of whom have contributed so much to every aspect of WTC’s life.
We would welcome your prayers for both Crispin and his family and ourselves at this transition time in WTC’s expansion and development.
Ian Dighe
Chairman, WTC Board
JOHN COLES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THEOLOGICAL TRAINING
Church history suggests that significant moves of God are stimulated by a convergence of theological content, ministry and mission. Often theological exploration has been taken up with concerns removed from the front line of church life in the power of the Spirit. But at times of renewal and revival, theological content and training becomes aligned to the needs and character of God’s kingdom manifestation and church growth.
In the 18th century England was swept by a revival initiated by a group of Oxford-educated evangelists: the Wesleys preached outside the confines of church structures and emptied the gin-halls of the downtrodden working classes who became intoxicated by God’s love and his Spirit.
In the first half of the same century in New England, the Great Awakening was accompanied by many signs of the Spirits presence and was led by the philosopher/theologian Jonathan Edwards.
In our own time, the recovery of Jesus’ message and the experience of God’s kingdom was spearheaded by the late John Wimber, a onetime member of the teaching faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary in California.
At these times of renewal there has been a growth in confidence in God’s power, obedience to his word and, simultaneously, a renewed clarity of theological perception focused on Jesus (his words, deeds and personal presence).
