This page will seek to layout the process of TKC from start to finish.
A potential student hears about TKC and the Holy Spirit spurs them to checkout the website. There they read all the degree paths, questions, and perhaps watch a few of the videos and read a couple books that they see are included in the classwork. They decide they would like to consider becoming a student.
They click the APPLY NOW button on the top of every page and in less than a minute are clicking “SUBMIT.”
Within 24 hours a representative in their potential field calls them back and discusses any questions they might have and talk through some potential options for them. The advisors encourage them to pray over it and seek wise counsel. They follow up the conversation with and email and text message and commit to praying for the decision.
Typically, the potential students reach back out to the advisor within a day or two, but if not, the advisor will contact the potential student within the week.
After much prayer, a plan is created for the student. Let’s say in this case it is a Master of Ministry based on 15 core credit classes (5 classes) and an additional 15 credits of electives in their filed which will be Theology. They agree to earn a Master of Ministry with an emphasis in Theology. The advisor reviews their transcripts and other material and is able to give them transfer credit for 6 credits of the electives from a handful of Bible classes they took through Jordan Peterson on Daily Wire. The advisor sends them an agreement to sign and return. The program will be 15 core credits and 9 Theology Credits and will total $3600 + the $500 Graduation fee.
The student prints the agreement, signs it, takes a photo of it with their phone and emails it to the advisor. After that they visit the TKC website, and she uses her grandfather’s credit card who has agreed to gift the first $1000 of her Seminary experience.
Her advisor reaches back out to her and makes sure she understands the first class. He connects her with another student that is also starting the class right now that lives an hour away. They decide to spur each other on.
Within the first week they read the first book. The second and third week they write a paper on it and send it to the advisor. The advisor plans a zoom meeting with both of them and goes over the paper being very encouraging and showing them what they did well and where they can improve next time. All grades are pass or fail and they both easily passed. Sometimes an advisor might ask a student to do a little more, but they always will pass.
They spend the next couple of weeks listening to podcasts and writing 1-page reviews on their phone (probably voice dictated as these are not scholarly reviews.) The advisor reads them and gives them feedback. He suggests they are getting close to the end of the class and should order the books for the next class.
By week 6 they are reading their last book and getting ready to write a 6-8 page review on it. They will be comparing the opposing views on the subject from the two books and formulating their own theological stance on the subject. The first papers don’t need much citation but by the end of the program we are expecting works to be cited.
Once they are finished, they email their reports. The advisor schedules a time with each of them to talk over the phone and review their work. This is the most excited they have ever been for things of the Bible and are now opened up to a great new passion. They can’t wait to start the next class! This class took them casually 8 weeks to complete, however some students have approached these classes full time and finished them in 2-3 weeks.
Their first class is finished.
They hear (through the newsletter announcements) there is a core class being offered 2 hours away at a church – 2x in person and 2x on zoom so they sign up for it. The class is more discussion oriented in person but actually seems like a bit more work because you’re still doing your own work and adding classroom time to it. Over the course of the next 8 weeks, they do an interactive project where each person teaches or preaches the content of the class and the advisor then accesses their knowledge form the captured video. Sometimes classes are a bit different. They meet a bunch of new friends and decide to form a formal cohort and meet quarterly.
The next week one of the doctoral students invites them to a zoom meeting where he pitches his dissertation topic. The class listens intently and then asks questions. Two of them offer to help him as research assistants and the advisor agrees to allow them a 3-credit independent study as part of it. They plan another zoom cohort meeting for 3 months at which time the doctoral student will send them all the first chapter for review. They will also hear testimony from two other students and another individual has asked to help her understand proper citation. An MDiv student offers to have lunch with her instead and work through it. This group continues to meet quarterly for many years.
The student has really enjoyed these first two classes but now she is ready to go! She takes 3 weeks off from her job and rents an AIR BNB with here husband in the Bahamas to crank out some seminary work. In 3 weeks she gets two more classes done working around the clock!
She has one more core class left! She orders the books and signs up for a Brian Zahnd prayer class in Missouri for a weekend. She completes the class, it spiritually transformed and in an amazing state. She has never felt so connected to God. She is renewed. She finishes a book and asks her advisor if she can do a video instead of a paper. He approves. She makes a YouTube video of her experience and ends up starting a channel. It gets 2000 views the first week.
She has now completed her first year or 15 credits of core classes in about 6 months. This was fast! Not everyone can do that! She has never felt more alive and can’t wait to learn more. Her pastor picks up on her enthusiasm and meets her in the fellowship hall for a cup of coffee. She knows way more about the Bible then anyone else in their church now. He is blown away by their conversation and then he visits the TKC website and ends up signing up for the TKC Doctoral program! Eventually their church will become a TKC satellite site, and the pastor will join the TKC remote staff.
The church now has her teaching Wednesday nights regularly and offers to pay her next $1000. She has 3 more classes to take that she works out with her advisor. One of them will be an independent study with a cohort to Israel for a week. The other two are topics she has wanted to understand her entire life. She takes the first class and teaches on the subject as she is taking it at her church. She makes another YouTube video and now her channel has 5000 subscribers. She is also speaking at women’s bible studies all over the county. God is really using her. Her pastor asks her if she would preach in 3 months. She switches gears slightly with her advisor and does a session with John Bevere to preach a sermon on the “AWE OF GOD.” The church is blown away. It is like they all read the book and spent personal time with John. The church ends up becoming a patron sponsor of TKC and starts offering college credit for students who take her Wednesday night classes.
Her total program was $4100 with the graduation fee, and she has paid $2000. The church passes a special offering and collects more than enough to pay the rest. She didn’t have to pay anything from her pocket, so she just made a gift donation to TKC to show her appreciation. She is now done with here requirements and can’t decide if she wants to simply receive the diploma in the mail, attend a local graduation event, or have a TKC ambassador come to her church and do a mini ceremony at the end of a church service. She opts to fly to San Bernadino California and join ISOM for a graduation ceremony in March. It will be sunny, and she has always wanted to see California. Her robe arrives and they travel to the ceremony. It is amazing! Over 100 graduates and 500 other pastors in various fields at a three-day ministry conference that culminates with graduation. The testimonies are unreal! This has been the best 18 months of her life. God is so alive in her and the fruit is everywhere.
She receives an invitation from the large church in town to preach on a Sunday morning. “Are women aloud to do that?” there she wonders? She accepts the invitation. She preaches again on the AWE OF GOD. She humbly invites some to pray and 100 people come to the front. The spirit is moving. People are praying, testifying, being healed. She has never been a part of something so powerful.
She goes home and her pastor asks if she would consider coming on the church staff part time as the Women’s Director. She accepts and decides to apply at TKC for the DMin Program. She is accepted but this time doesn’t have to take core classes. She signs up for a cohort with AWKNG and flies down to Florida for a conference. Her mind is blown by the supernatural. Her YouTube channel is now rounding 25,000 subscribers and she is being contacted every week to come share what God is doing. In less than 5 years she will have a Masters and Doctoral degree and likely hardly spend any money as her church family partners with her. This is the life she was destined for! Now her and her husband have decided to be full time missionaries.
Parts of this story were fabricated slightly in efforts to explain the TKC process, but it is based on a real-life story.
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