The mission of the Antioch School is to support church-based theological education by providing academic degree programs utilizing in-service leadership development for ministry in church-based contexts.

The Antioch School is the part of BILD International University that offers academic degree programs based on competencies associated with the use of BILD International resources, a leader in nonformal church-based theological education.

Vision

The vision of the Antioch School is to support the tremendous spontaneous expansion of the Church in the twenty-first century through theological education done in the context of church ministry, which maintains high levels of achievement in character, skills, and knowledge.

Context

Church-planting movements are exploding all around the world in a manner similar to what was known in the Early Church as "the Antioch Tradition."

The Antioch School supports the North American Antioch Initiative of BILD International with a goal of serving 2000 students by Fall 2010. This initiative envisions planting thousands of churches, in this generation, that are serious about growing and equipping the Church.

Anyone paying attention to the state of the Church in the West over the past decade sees that something fresh is occurring. Groups are calling for and constructing new forms of mission and church. Traditional models are no longer seriously meeting the need to grow and equip the Church for effect in its own culture and mission to the world. Renewal is largely unsuccessful. A new generation of churches is needed. The Antioch Initiative will significantly contribute to this new generation and play a lead role in the planting of churches in North America in the way of Christ and His Apostles.

The Antioch School supports BILD International's vision to accelerate global church-planting movements. This initiative sees our global partners training 100,000 leaders by 2010. By adding the Antioch School with its certificate and degree programs to the mix of their existing large-scale BILD grassroots programs, it will enable them to keep their top leaders active in the ministry of planting and shepherding movements of churches while attaining advanced training and academic credentials.