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Discipleship & Spiritual Formation: Certificate

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Elevate your relationship with Christ. Expand your impact to make disciples.

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Online

Your life. Your career. Your studies. Elevate your future without disrupting your daily life, at NGU.

Credit Hours

Complete your graduate level certificate in as little as four courses. Then, apply your credit hours toward a master’s degree program (if you so choose). That’s a win-win.

Ranked Online College

NGU ranked #3 on EDsmart’s list of “Best Online Colleges in South Carolina” (2020).

Our Christian Calling: Disciples Making Disciples

From church and ministry leaders to everyday Christians, God’s call remains the same–to grow in Christ while discipling younger believers. Elevate your personal discipleship and equip yourself to make disciples.

Engage spiritual formation and personal evangelism. Explore devotional classics, the Psalms, and the theology of Christian life. Examine prayer, spiritual awakenings, discipleship, and leadership development. Elevate your calling to be and make disciples, at NGU.

Ministry Beside Biblically Faithful Leaders

Larry McDonald, PhD
Associate Provost, Graduate Programs

Dallas Vandiver
Assistant Professor, Christian Studies

Study Discipleship & Spiritual Formation as You Design

Core Courses
Elective Courses

Spiritual Formation
Personal Evangelism

*Choose two of the following:

Theology of Christian Life
Psalms and Christian Spirituality
Contemporary Evangelical Spirituality
Devotional Classics of the Christian Faith
Prayer and Spiritual Awakenings
Discipleship
Leadership Development in the Local Congregation

Stories that Started Here

Micheal Pardue, MCM ’10

I currently serve as President of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.

Jason Young DMin ’00 & ’20

The degree was affordable and delivered in a format that worked well for me.

Gretchen Durrell ’12

NGU has always been close to my heart because it’s a family legacy.

More Successes

North Greenville University (NGU) admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.