Christian Gap Year Programs
Experience a digital learning journey with our gap year programs designed to build your character and essential leadership skills. Engage in interactive courses, develop practical strategies, and gain valuable insights to grow as a leader. Make the most of your gap year with an immersive, online experience tailored to your goals.
Finding your Purpose
Our Christian gap year program helps you discover your unique calling through faith-based instruction. If you're planning your gap year, this is an opportunity to align your life with the way of Jesus and explore what he is calling you to do in the future.
Accelerated Growth
Experience personal and spiritual development in a supportive environment. Our program offers gap year ideas that foster accelerated growth, preparing you for the challenges of life and faith ahead.
Comprehensive Skills
Gain essential skills in leadership, communication, and service through our Christian gap year program. This college gap year alternative provides a holistic approach to developing your abilities for both personal and professional success.
Transitional Preparation
Seamlessly transition into college or your next chapter with confidence and clarity. Our program offers a structured gap year that equips you with the spirituall, emotional, and practical tools needed for future success.
Gap Year Courses
Our Gap Year courses are the same as all other CLI courses. The only difference is you take two courses per month with the Accelerated Leadership track and four courses per month with the Accelerated Ministry Track so you
In this course, you’ll take an assessment to learn how well you emotionally connect with others, discover your potential blind spots, and learn ways to manage and structure your time and grow in leadership.
In this course, you'll learn how to be an ideal team player and how to become humble, hungry, and smart in your leadership. You will learn how to clothe yourself with humility so you can practice servant leadership.
In this course, you will learn how to understand the five dysfunctions of a team. Once you understand these dysfunctions, you will be able to identify them and change the culture of your team through effective communication tools.
In this course, you will discover the importance of godly character in your leadership. Your skills have the ability to elevate you, but character is what keeps you there.
In this leadership course, you will learn how to manufacture healthy, sustainable habits and priorities, and prioritize your essential responsibilities.
In this course, you will discover that many leaders start, but few finish well. This course is designed to help you identify the ten most common mistakes that leaders make and then learn effective practices to help you avoid these pitfalls in your leadership.
In this course, you’ll understand that it is impossible to become spiritually mature without first becoming emotionally mature. We will discuss how to develop a rule of life to help manage your routines to foster spiritual development.
In this leadership class, you will learn how anxiety, grief, background, and family, affect your mental health and ultimately your leadership. When you understand the source of your anxiety, you can then learn ways to help you in these situations.
In this course, you will learn to identify and set healthy boundaries that are essential for personal life and ministry. Instead of falling into the trap of many leaders, feeling the need to have all the answers, you will learn to identify your core values in order to be empowered to set the boundaries needed to thrive.
In this course, you will gain a basic overview of these complex subjects. As a Christian leader, either in ministry or the marketplace, it is essential for you to have a basic understanding of what the Bible says about life and leadership.
In this course, you will have a safe environment where you can learn to connect with God in real and tangible ways. Spiritual practices are so important, as they allow you to connect with God in new interactive ways, enabling you to become more like him. This will allow you to reflect his character to those you lead.
In this course, you will learn to be empowered by the Holy Spirit through a partnership with God rather than a reliance on independence to produce life changes within and for others.
Lead Year Two Courses
Gain effective models for influential communication and crucial conversations. Relationships are difficult, and conversations can be hard. This course will provide you with tools and communication skills needed to navigate difficult conversations with those you lead.
Explore the art of storytelling as a leader. Jesus was the ultimate example of storytelling in leadership to effectively impact lives. This course will teach you the skills needed for telling great stories; better equipping you to cast vision and create a culture for those you lead.
Learn the power of life's high and low moments in this leadership course. As a leader, you need to understand the importance of strategic moments for individuals and your organization and key concepts of making a meaningful moment to create impactful experiences for those you lead.
Learn how to discover a vision for your leadership context, and how to communicate it to others. Vision is all about hearing God’s voice in your future direction and then painting a picture for those you lead to follow.
Learn to solve problems proactively rather than reactively in this leadership development course. At the completion of this course, you will know effective problem solving skills and processes to tackle the problems you will encounter in your leadership context.
Learn proven processes to help you make wise and strategic decisions; positively impacting every aspect of your leadership and personal life.
Establish essential behaviors that will empower you to thrive in your leadership; gaining skills to help you evaluate your time and energy. You will discover your core responsibilities and what is truly essential.
Learn to create and, most importantly, sustain healthy habits for your life over a long methodical journey; improving incrementally every day. This course is all about building habits at a pace that is consistent and sustainable.
Discover healthy levels of stress and appropriate amount of rest necessary to perform at your peak level, in a fast-paced, stressful culture. This course will help you identify where you are unhealthy and teach you the necessary routines needed for effective leadership.
Study the process of change in the lifespan of an organization in this leadership course. Instead of exclusively viewing change through a logical framework, the course will focus on the emotional framework of change management; better equipping leaders to navigate change in their organization.
Understand the redemptive leadership model and what sets this apart from popular leadership models. Redemptive leaders must move from an external motivation, that is primarily; goal, activity, and accomplishment driven; to internal motivation, unlocking your true purpose and meaning as a leader.
Learn to utilize exemplary leadership practices to make extraordinary things happen, regardless of your position within your organization. You will learn how to model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart.
Ministry Year One Courses
You are going to gain an understanding of the various leadership structures of the local church. This will allow you to identify styles, leadership steps, and leadership roles outlined in Scripture.
Explore how a pastor leads subversively and effectively and learn the biblical job description of a pastor and how it connects to being a shepherd.
We will talk about the difference between discipleship, mentoring, and coaching; how they are defined and how to implement them in our ministry.
Parents sometimes erroneously believe that it is the church’s responsibility to disciple their children. In this course, you will learn different tools and resources to empower parents to succeed in the discipleship of the next generation.
Parents tend to believe that it is the church’s responsibility to disciple their students. In this course, you will learn different tools and resources to empower parents to succeed in the discipleship of the next generation.
Learn how to connect with Millennials and Gen Z, in the digital age in which we now live alongside a variety of methods to instruct and disciple these generations in a way they both value and understand.
Explore the key elements of an effective speech and the difference between being a good speaker and an effective teacher of the Bible. Often there is separate training on this topic but this course will combine them and teach you that both are essential to be effective.
Learn the creative process behind developing an effective worship service; discovering key elements necessary for a cohesive worship experience, including creative planning, graphic and video design, music, production, and technology.
Learn to measure and extend your discipleship, and development throughout the life of a congregation; to pastor, shepherd, mentor, and coach individuals to help them be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and eventually do what Jesus did.
Learn practical principles of organizational leadership and gain insights into how to engage and lead high-capacity leaders. This course will give you insight into church leadership's structural and practical aspects.
Discover basic financial management practices for your personal life and ministry. No matter what ministry context you are called to, you will have to steward what God has entrusted you with, based upon biblical standards.
Identify your primary areas of interest in ministry, explore your calling, and receive guidance in the areas of your passion and gifting.
Ministry Year Two Courses
In this course, you will learn the phases of a leader's life and see how God has been developing you throughout your journey. You will discover where you are on your leadership timeline and gain clarity on where God could potentially lead you in your leadership.
Learn components of your personal ministry philosophy and how this is different and unique from others. God gave you that philosophy and He wants you to minister through it. This course will allow you to examine your internal core beliefs and actions so you can articulate them to yourself and those you lead.
Use your leadership timeline and ministry philosophy to create a vision for your future ministry journey. All Christian leaders want to leave something behind that influences people to positive change, leading people towards Christ. This course will help you identify what you want to be known for and show you how to invite God to create the legacy you desire.
Discover God’s shaping work in the lives of Moses, David, Paul, and Jesus. Learning from these biblical leaders will empower you to see how God is working in your life. You will assess the health of your soul and discover practices to introduce space into your life in order to hear God’s voice. Finally, you will learn the essential functions and responsibilities of a spiritual leader.
Discover how God is shaping your heart through culture, calling, and community; healthy and effective ways to engage with the culture in which God has placed you. God utilizes the relationships of community to develop your heart as a leader.
Learn about the five offices and functions of leadership within the church as described in Ephesians 4:11. Leadership teams missing these essential roles are hindered from truly representing Jesus to the church and community.
Learn about the five offices and functions of leadership within the church as described in Ephesians 4:11. Leadership teams missing these essential roles are hindered from truly representing Jesus to the church and community.
Discover your unique God-given role and function within church leadership. This understanding will empower you to minister more effectively in the future and set you free to be exactly who God created you to be.
Employ practical strategies to help others mature in their faith by utilizing development tools and creating a culture that values diversity of leadership.
In this course, you will learn how a servant leader should think and care for the people they lead. To lead like Jesus, we must learn as much as we can about how He interacted with God and people, enabling us to meaningfully encounter Him and others.
In this course, you will discover essential habits needed to serve others well. To lead like Jesus, we must lead from a place of humility; serving as Jesus did. When we follow His example, we truly guide people closer to God’s heart.
In this course, you will employ practical strategies to help others mature in their faith through Jesus' example of servant leadership. You will learn to be a leader who exalts God and rejects the ideas of self- sufficiency and dependence upon self.
Enroll for Just $250 per Month
Comprehensive CLI Gap Year Benefits
Gap Year Instructors
Our Gap Year instructors have a wealth of knowledge and experience in leadership. They desire to guide you to be a healthy leader in a variety of roles and environments.
Discover Your True Purpose
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