NNU's 36-credit Master of Arts in Leadership and Formation with specialization in Missional Leadership is geared to help leaders like you take your ministry outside your walls and into the neighborhood. As a Missional Leadership student, you'll engage with NNU's experienced faculty and leading-edge practitioners in discovering what it means to participate in the extension of God's reign, both across the street and around the world. Participate in an optional field trip to meet with the writers of your texts and visit leading-edge missional ministries. Grounded in a strong Wesleyan foundation, your studies are designed to have direct application in your ministry context. 

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Graduates from our Master of Arts in Leadership & Formation specializations assume leadership in various ministry venues, including pastoral leadership; staff ministry; church planting; university student development; military, healthcare, hospice, institutional and marketplace chaplaincy; non-profit leadership; cross-cultural ministry; district and general church administration; and other innovative settings. Additionally, many of our graduates have advanced to doctoral studies at a variety of other educational institutions, including Drew Divinity School, Boston University, Regent, Claremont, Portland Seminary, Fuller, Perkins and Nazarene Theological Seminary, to name just a few.