COLSON FELLOWS CHURCH AFFILIATE PROGRAM
• Registration closes August 1, 2025
• Online access to the Course opens August 1, 2025
• Monthly sessions begin August 9, 2025 and continue on the 2nd Saturday of each month
through May 9, 2026 in the Hub from 9:00 am to 12:00. Coffee and refreshments will be
available.
• Students completing the Program will be commissioned in May 2026.
The Colson Fellowship @ Shepherd Gate Church
Most of our Bible study throughout our Christian lives focuses on understanding God and
learning how to live in right relationship to Him, ourselves, and each other—and this is certainly
vital to our spiritual growth. However, the Bible also teaches us how to live in right relationship
to every aspect of God’s creation, which includes society, culture, art, economics, education,
and politics just to name a few. Furthermore, the Bible helps us understand how to properly
order (or re-order) the fallen world as we join Christ in his work of restoring all things. This is
where a “Christian worldview” proves vital.
Ours is a world where the “powers and principalities” are actively working to dis-order God’s
good creation in areas such as marriage, family, human sexuality, and personhood to name a
few. As disciples of Christ, we cannot truly love our neighbors and remain indifferent to ideas
and actions that do harm to people and God’s creation. The fact is, “ideas have consequences
and bad ideas have victims.” Because we care about the victims of “bad ideas,” we are pleased
to partner with the Colson Center for Christian Worldview in bringing the Colson Fellows
Program to Shepherd Gate Church.
The Colson Fellows Program is a transformational course that compresses a lifetime of Christian
wisdom...into ten months. This program will establish a solid foundation for those who are new
to the study of Christian worldview, and for those who are well-versed in Christian worldview
and apologetics; you will gain new insights into today’s rapidly changing culture. Colson
Fellows-in-Training go beyond understanding worldview as mere arguments and facts, and
develop instead, the critical thinking skills or wisdom to discern what is or is not true, good and
beautiful in every issue that assails us today so they can understand the times and engage
others thoughtfully and with grace.
Program Overview:
Beginning each July, Colson Fellows-in-Training follow a carefully curated curriculum that helps
them understand and identify worldviews and how they manifest in today’s ideas, philosophies,
policies and practice. You will learn how to analyze and understand culture and its influence.
Additionally, we will examine current cultural flashpoints such as race relations, progressive
sexuality, religious liberty, the role of government, economics, and sanctity of life to name a
few. Finally, Colson Fellows-in-Training will examine the concept of “calling” and develop a
“Personal Ministry Plan” that will help them discover their calling, identify their unique gifts and
sphere of influence.
Other features of the Program include:
• 24/7/365 access to the Colson Fellows Online Learning Platform;
• Monthly Meetings facilitated by Andrea Jacobs – Church Affiliate Director, a
commissioned Colson Fellow;
• Twice-Monthly Video Webinars in which you are able to interact with authors from the
reading list and other leading worldview scholars;
• Interactive daily devotionals that weave together all course components;
• Assistance developing a teaching practicum in which you will teach on a topic you’ve
learned;
• StrengthsFinder assessment;
• Lifetime access to Colson Center resources and ongoing worldview education;
• Inclusion into a network of over 3500 Colson Fellows working across the globe in various
spheres of Christian ministry.
Costs:
• Through an exclusive Licensing Agreement with the Colson Center, Shepherd Gate
Church members only pay $450 in tuition.
• Participants will need to purchase books from a source of their choice such as Amazon.
Estimated book costs are an additional $200.
Schedule:
REGISTER NOW Contact Andrea Jacobs for details
703-473-0663