Is your heart calling you to make a difference? Having an experience that will change the way you thick about God, yourself and others is critical in order for you to become a hero and fulfil God’s calling. Starting today use your life to change your world and choose Hero Institute to take you there. The Hero Experience provides theological training and spiritual transformation like no other.
Students in most Bible Colleges particularly completing courses online, commonly feel unconnected, graduating with a qualification but without transforming empowerment and significant relationships. Upon enrolment Hero’s students are assigned a personal spiritual formations supervisor, usually a senior pastor or missionary with master degree or doctorate. The Hero Experience is then customized to your calling, with the inclusion of a ministry placement internship in Australia, followed by international missions placement from two to six months, all Fee-Help approved for students who meet the Australian Government criteria. Visit www.studyassist.gov.au. The Hero Institute’s undergraduate and graduate award pathway is fully accredited and internationally recognised; provided in partnership with the Australian College of Ministries (ACOM) and Stirling College, Member Institutes of the Sydney College of Divinity. Our pathway ensure practical training for the real world is at the core of ministry preparation. It means our students are better equipped to take on the world and live out their call – whatever it may be. Click “Enroll Today” below to find out more.
Starting The Hero Experience
1. Application in either: Choose from either undergraduate or graduate award pathway through ACOM/Stirling with Hero Institute as your Cohort.
2. Appointed a Supervisor: Start your Spiritual Transformation with your significant relationship either trough our Online Portal, or our Melbourne City Campus. You can even apply to live at our campus Hero Home right in the heart of Melbourne City.
3. Pathway Customised: Subjects are selected and tailored towards a international research project your ministry vision and your spiritual needs.
4. Internship Placement: Hero places you into a ministry experience in your field of interest. Complete an internship with RICE in Melbourne CBD or a Local Church Ministry. Your internship is integrated into your award, with assignments focused to give you the most our of your experience.
5. Online / Intensive Subjects: Hero Cohort delivers subjects through a easy accessible online portal, supported by intensive lectures, and personal/small groups tutorials with your supervisor.
6. International Placement: 2 to 6 months with the Alliance Institute of Mission, living, studying and doing ministry on the mission field as you complete your research project.
7. Future Licensing: Hero acts as a referee for Pastoral/Missions Licensing.
The Hero Edge
1. Student Accommodation in Melbourne City Centre with convenient access to Melbourne’s largest theological libraries.
2. A Hero Expense Account (Bank account) for facilitating ministry placement expenses.
3. Spiritual Formation, intensive, students may apply for our 34-foot sailing yacht experience (up to 3 days).
4. Creative Arts development, including the use of a music recording studio.
Undergraduate and Graduate School Pathways
If you can demonstrate English proficiency, no prior qualifications are needed to get started at our undergraduate level. Core Subjects include studies in:
- Introduction to the Old & New Testaments
- Introduction to Church History & Theology
- Introduction to Discipleship and Spiritual Formation
- Engaging in Ministry (Local Church Internship)
- Engaging in intercultural studies (International internship)
By choosing to prepare yourself with Hero Institute, a cohort of the Australian College of Ministries, you are choosing quality and expertise. We combine strong theology with practical learning to make sure our graduates are better equipped to serve and love their local churches. We offer awards with our affiliated colleges the highest possible national accreditation and international recognition, from Diploma through to Doctorate Level.
We’re committed to giving our students options. You have access to the same high quality of education online or through our Melbourne City Campus in Australia. We even provide personal tutoring within two Victorian Prisons. Should you desire to relocate to Melbourne to study face to face, please apply to stay at our Melbourne City Hero Student Accommodation. Students can also choose between part-time and full-time study, and may have access to government FEE HELP and Austudy.
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0432 987 378