Advanced Ministry Training making disciples of men.

Help What Hurts

Helping others find healing, freedom, and peace is what love does. Sharing Christ with your neighbors shouldn’t be fearful or overwhelming. We equip ordinary Christians for extraordinary impact. We equip you with resources, Biblical knowledge, ministry tools, and assessment skills so that you can show your neighbors, friends, and family how Christ is the solution for anxiety, depression, anger, passivity, hopelessness, lies, addictions, self-harm, suicide, etc.

  • To share the life of Christ, you need reliance on Christ and basic skills and methods.

  • Don’t let a sense of inadequacy stop you from helping others. Christ is your adequacy. When trained to respond to hard topics, they are no longer hard topics. They are the opportunities to show others why and how they need Christ too.

  • Ordinary believers in the church of the books of Acts turned the world upside down.

  • Don’t be unprepared to respond to your or others’ next emotional and relational upheaval or setback. Without training, struggles may cause you or others to doubt Christianity’s power and miss lasting healing, freedom, and victory.

Advanced Ministry Training is a transformative discipleship class that causes the scriptures to come alive with new insight, truth, revelation, and resurrection power. It will equip you to share healing, freedom, and victory with others through teaching techniques, visuals, and ministry tools. This program includes a 500-page ministry manual, relevant applications that address the overwhelming emotional and relational needs of our members and communities, abundant ministry resources, compelling visuals, and case studies.

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

What is the Advanced Ministry Training Program?

The Advanced Ministry Training (AMT) class is for those seeking lasting confidence and a victorious Christian walk. AMT will get you off the try-harder treadmill so that you can rest and work from your identity in Christ. If self-help has worn you out, this class is for you. This class will not give formulas or more religious activity promising a breakthrough. AMT will show you how you are in Christ and how to live from His life to respond to fear, anxiety, depression, inadequacy, shame, setbacks, lack, and all relational issues. Exchange your negative self-talk and self-image for God’s perspective of your worth and acceptance. You can join this class IN PERSON or VIRTUALLY. Both get 12-month access to the class recordings for makeup or to re-watch.

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Knowing Healing, Freedom, and Victory

$250 or 5/$50 payments ($500) value

Advanced Ministry Training

A 21-week transformative discipleship class that is changing lives!

AMT LEVEL 1:

  • Beginning OCTOBER 19th
  • 6-8:30pm with optional Q&A table discussion at 8:30pm
  • NEW 21 week format
  • NEW LOCATION: 588 Three Mile Road NW, Suite 203, Grand Rapids, MI
  • Satellite AMT Location in Byron Center at Frontline Bible Church, 8283 Pfeiffer Farms Dr. SW, Byron Center, MI 49315. If you would like to attend at this location, let us know by emailing info@lifecentergr.org
  • Only 40 IN PERSON seats available
  • Unlimited VIRTUAL seats available

Unit One: Foundation of Healing

This verse-by-verse study of Romans 5-8 shows you how “Christ in you is the hope of glory.” We equip you to use your Bible to lead yourself or others to peace and contentment. You will know the most prominent reasons believers struggle and how to present real solutions to those confused about Christianity.

Unit Two: Path to Lasting Freedom

Since truth sets us free, we help you investigate the lies that bind you to exchange them for God’s truth. We equip you with revelational knowledge, visuals, teaching aides, and resources to lead yourself and your friends and family to lasting healing and freedom from anger, anxiety, depression, shame, hopelessness, confusion, unforgiveness, etc.

Unit Three: Lifelong Victory

Grace is the divine enablement to live from Christ’s indwelling life. The river of God is always full, but we don’t always not how to access living water. Instead of striving, we show you the path of faith that unlocks living the confident Christian life regardless of circumstances. Not only does this shut the enemy down, but you can also share the path to victory. 
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Sharing Healing, Freedom, and Victory

$300 or 6/$50 payments ($500) value

Unit Four: Sharing Healing, Freedom, and Victory

Learn crucial ministry skills, prayer ministry skills, and empathy skills to minister effectively to abuse survivors, those struggling with addiction, self-harm, or considering suicide. Level Two includes training for marriage ministry and premarital marriage preparation too. Level Two students receive an Exchange Life Discipler’s Ministry Handbook ($150 value), which is needed for AMT Level Three.

Level Two includes LIFETIME ACCESS TO OUR TRAINING TRACK PORTAL, which has 17 dry-erase visual training videos,
14 hours of messages and a live history, and nine live meetings for viewing. We continually add resources and training videos.

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Discipleship Coach Certification

$480 or 8/$60 payments due at each meeting

The AMT Level Three Discipleship Coach Certification includes eight personalized meetings with a certified and experienced discipleship coach. They coach you to gain mastery and confidence in sharing healing, freedom, and victory. You can start any time after completing AMT Levels One and Two. Are you considering opening your own office? Or online ministry services? Let us know. We can help with that too.

AMT Ambassador Badge

Become an AMT Ambassador

AMT alumni, you have invested in learning. Here is a way for you to start sharing what you have learned with others. Invite at least three people to join the AMT class with you, and we will re-enroll you for FREE. You can join the virtual or live class together or mix it up based on what fits your group best.

Advanced Ministry Training FAQs

Enroll in the IN PERSON or Virtual class anytime before the class starts. The virtual link expires in August, four months after the end of class. AMT (lifecentergr.org/advanced-ministry-training)

You can enroll anytime before the end of the Advanced Ministry Training Level One ends. AMT (lifecentergr.org/advanced-ministry-training)

Register for all classes online at AMT (lifecentergr.org/advanced-ministry-training). If you need assistance, you can call the office at 616.241.3433.

  • At this time, we do not offer financial assistance, but we do offer an easy five payment plan for the live and virtual Advanced Ministry Training: Level One. (At the registration page, select the payment plan.)

You may take the class  virtually by registering anytime before class starts. 

  • We recommend many books in Advanced Ministry Training Level One, but reading the books is not required to take the class.
  • If you take the Advanced Ministry Training Level Two (Training Track), you should plan on reading all of the required reading. (The Advanced Ministry Training manual list the books.)
  • If you take the Advanced Ministry Training Level Three (Internship), you are required to turn in all of the book reports (or most of them) before you are assigned your first “client.”
  • When you register for the In Person or Virtual class, you will receive a link to access the virtual portal. You may watch the class virtually to make up a class.
  • The virtual link expires in August, four months after the end of class.
  • Attend the class anyways. The class always covers the assignments, and you can come back to it later.

Click the contact link in the bottom right of the screen or call us at 616.241.3433.

We respond to questions within 24 hours except over the weekend.