WELCOME to the new NRP School of Ministry!
The NRP School of Ministry has been specifically created with a strategic purpose: to give an opportunity for those who sense a call to Five-Fold Ministry in the local church to be further trained, equipped, and mentored by seasoned NRP pastors and leaders. If this is your desire, we invite you to learn more about this exciting, new school which begins January 2023!
WELCOME to the new NRP School of Ministry!
The NRP School of Ministry has been specifically created with a strategic purpose: to give an opportunity for those who sense a call to Five-Fold Ministry in the local church to be further trained, equipped, and mentored by seasoned NRP pastors and leaders. If this is your desire, we invite you to learn more about this exciting, new school which begins January 2023!
about the program
This accelerated, 13-month, modular school will include the following components:
A North campus based at Living Stones Church in Crown Point, IN, and a South campus based at Generations Church in Pearl River, LA. The School of Ministry offices are housed on the Crown Point, IN campus.
Topical, self-paced, online video courses taught by NRP pastors as well as a comprehensive, independent study, Bible Survey course covering all 66 books of the Bible
Every six months, a Friday - Sunday, Live Teaching Weekend (LTW). Students will travel to one of our two campuses for six classes taught by NRP pastors and leaders, impartation to students, and fellowship with the faculty and fellow classmates.
A regional cohort where the student will enjoy getting to know other students at a deeper level as they progress through the various ministry, topic-related, monthly terms together. Cohorts will meet on a Saturday, in a central location, twice throughout the year.
Monthly accountability and personal engagement with a seasoned NRP mentor/pastor
Ten hours of practical ministry lab credits earned each month while serving in the student's local church under the oversight of their pastor
Participation in local outreach or an optional mission trip to Honduras in June 2023
An Associate Degree in Christian Ministry will be awarded at the completion of 60 credit hours of study.
A spouse, once accepted into the program, may attend at a half-price tuition rate.
We’re excited about this new training tool the NRP is offering! If you have been looking for a way to be taught and mentored by seasoned, spiritual fathers and pastors who have given many years of their lives to ministry, don’t miss being part of this strategic opportunity!
about the program
This accelerated, 13-month, modular school will include the following components:
A North campus based at Living Stones Church in Crown Point, IN, and a South campus based at Generations Church in Pearl River, LA. The School of Ministry offices are housed on the Crown Point, IN campus.
Topical, self-paced, online video courses taught by NRP pastors as well as a comprehensive, independent study, Bible Survey course covering all 66 books of the Bible
Every six months, a Friday - Sunday, Live Teaching Weekend (LTW). Students will travel to one of our two campuses for six classes taught by NRP pastors and leaders, impartation to students, and fellowship with the faculty and fellow classmates.
A regional cohort where the student will enjoy getting to know other students at a deeper level as they progress through the various ministry, topic-related, monthly terms together. Cohorts will meet on a Saturday, in a central location, twice throughout the year.
Monthly accountability and personal engagement with a seasoned NRP mentor/pastor
Ten hours of practical ministry lab credits earned each month while serving in the student's local church under the oversight of their pastor
Participation in local outreach or an optional mission trip to Honduras in June 2023
An Associate Degree in Christian Ministry will be awarded at the completion of 60 credit hours of study.
A spouse, once accepted into the program, may attend at a half-price tuition rate.
We’re excited about this new training tool the NRP is offering! If you have been looking for a way to be taught and mentored by seasoned, spiritual fathers and pastors who have given many years of their lives to ministry, don’t miss being part of this strategic opportunity!
application requirements
Men and women who sense a call to Five-Fold Ministry and are already faithful and fruitful serving in their local church
Lifestyle standards which consistently display a consecrated walk with the Lord
An excellent pastoral recommendation from the applicant’s senior pastor
A time commitment to attend all the Live Teaching Weekends, regional cohort meetings, monthly ZOOM calls, and completion of assignments and reading
Ability to pay the monthly tuition and fees as noted
application requirements
1. Men and women who sense a call to Five-Fold Ministry and are already faithful and fruitful serving in their local church
2. Lifestyle standards which consistently display a consecrated walk with the Lord
3. An excellent pastoral recommendation from the applicant’s senior pastor
4. A time commitment to attend all the Live Teaching Weekends, regional cohort meetings, monthly ZOOM calls, and completion of assignments and reading
5. Ability to pay the monthly tuition and fees as noted
PROGRESSIVE MINISTRY TOPICS
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
PROGRESSIVE MINISTRY TOPICS
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
tuition & FEES
TOTAL COST
$4,350 per student
Payment options:
Pay in full or 12 monthly payments available
FINANCIAL AID
An NRP $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to the first 30 students that are accepted
in each of the North and South campuses.
A spouse, once accepted into the program, may attend at a half-price tuition rate.
FEES
$25 Application fee: due when application is submitted
$75 Graduation fee: due January 2024
$100 TOTAL Fees
Tuition
$250 Deposit due upon acceptance; will be applied to the student’s tuition
$4,000 Remaining balance for tuition
$4,250 TOTAL Tuition
$4,350 TOTAL COST OF TUITION + FEES
NRP Scholarship
The first 30 students that are accepted in each of the North and South campuses will be awarded a $1,000 NRP scholarship. When applied to the cost of the tuition, the total tuition balance becomes $3,250.
$100 Fees
$250 Deposit (one month’s tuition)
$3,000 Remaining tuition may be paid in 12 monthly payments of $250/month.
$3,350 TOTAL COST OF THE SCHOOL OF MINISTRY
TRANSPORTATION AND LODGING
Once accepted, students will receive an informational page to fill out concerning their transportation and lodging preferences for the Live Teaching Weekends and cohort meetings. Transportation and lodging will be an additional expense for the student. Please see the FAQ section below for more information.
For a student to get the maximum impact from the classes taught at the Live Teaching Weekends, attendance at all three weekends, as well as the two Saturday cohort meetings, is required. If a student finds that he cannot attend one of these LTW’s midway through the school year, the credits they have already earned will be retained in the school office, and they can reapply to the school the following year to continue their training.
tuition & FEES
TOTAL COST
$4,350 per student
Payment options:
Pay in full or 12 monthly payments available
FINANCIAL AID
An NRP $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to the first 30 students that are accepted
in each of the North and South campuses.
A spouse, once accepted into the program, may attend at a half-price tuition rate.
FEES
$25 Application fee: due when application is submitted
$75 Graduation fee: due January 2024
$100 TOTAL Fees
Tuition
$250 Deposit due upon acceptance; will be applied to the student’s tuition
$4,000 Remaining balance for tuition
$4,250 TOTAL Tuition
$4,350 TOTAL COST OF TUITION + FEES
NRP Scholarship
The first 30 students that are accepted in each of the North and South campuses will be awarded a $1,000 NRP scholarship. When applied to the cost of the tuition, the total tuition balance becomes $3,250.
$100 Fees
$250 Deposit (one month’s tuition)
$3,000 Remaining tuition may be paid in 12 monthly payments of $250/month.
$3,350 TOTAL COST OF THE SCHOOL OF MINISTRY
TRANSPORTATION AND LODGING
Once accepted, students will receive an informational page to fill out concerning their transportation and lodging preferences for the Live Teaching Weekends and cohort meetings. Transportation and lodging will be an additional expense for the student. Please see the FAQ section below for more information.
For a student to get the maximum impact from the classes taught at the Live Teaching Weekends, attendance at all three weekends, as well as the two Saturday cohort meetings, is required. If a student finds that he cannot attend one of these LTW’s midway through the school year, the credits they have already earned will be retained in the school office, and they can reapply to the school the following year to continue their training.
LEADERSHIP TEAM and faculty
Pastor Keith Tucci
Senior Apostolic
Team Leader, NRP
Pastor Keith Tucci
Senior Apostolic
Team Leader, NRP
Pastor Keith Tucci has served in a variety of ministerial roles, including pastor, church planter, and missionary. Until 2015, Keith was pastoring Living Hope Church in Pennsylvania. Currently, he serves as the Apostolic Team Leader for the Network of Related Pastors. Keith and his wife, Penny, have been married for over 40 years. They have 8 children and 15 grandchildren.
Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr.
Academic Dean
Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr.
Academic Dean
Pastor Ron has been the Senior Pastor of Living Stones Church (lstones.org) for the last 12
years. Before that, he served as Sr. Associate Pastor and Youth Pastor. His passions include
discipling men, developing leaders, building strong marriages, and reaching unreached nations
with the Gospel. He frequently travels to teach in ROAR schools which train and equip national
pastors.
He is part of the Apostolic Team of NRP and loves encouraging pastors to take a more active
role in reforming our culture. He and his wife, Marion, have been happily married for 37 years
and have been blessed with 8 children and 7 grandchildren.
Pastor Dick Bashta
Director
Pastor Dick Bashta
Director
For the last 45 years, Pastor Dick and his wife, Susie, have been missionaries, mission pastors, and directors of two mission sending organizations based at their local church. They served with Bro. Rod and Mary Aguillard in Reserve, LA for 20 years, and for the last 16 years, they have been mission pastors at Living Stones Church in Crown Point, IN.
In 2008, Pastor Dick founded Global ROAR, a mission sending organization and the ROAR, a ministry training school, which he directs. There are now 19 ROAR schools in 11 nations of the world, equipping national pastors to plant churches in their countries and beyond. For the last 25 years, Pastor Dick’s focus has been on reaching unreached peoples and “Turning the Great Commission into the Great Completion!” He and Susie have ministered in 56 countries of the world and have a passion to do two things - TRAIN and SEND!
Susie Bashta
Administrative Director
Susie Bashta
Administrative Director
Susie has a passion for serving the Body of Christ through her gifts of administration, excellence, creativity, and building teams. Although she is a registered nurse by education, her real love is serving side by side with her husband, Dick, in starting ROAR schools in the nations and handling the myriad of details that curriculum, travel, and correspondence with national directors involve. She also enjoys leading short-term mission trips.
She and Dick have been happily and strategically married for 45 years. They have five children, all serving in ministry, and eight grandchildren.
REGIONAL MENTORS
Pastor Gary Paladin
Northern Region
Pastor Gary Paladin
Northern Region
With a prophetic edge, a heart for the lost, and extensive work overseas, this church planter, business owner, and pastor of 33 years brings experience and energy to the NRP School of Ministry Team.
Pastor Keith Hodges
Southern Region
Pastor Keith Hodges
Southern Region
Pastor Keith Hodges is the founding/lead pastor of Liberty Church Campuses in North Alabama
where he has been preaching and pastoring for 30 years. He has been married for 32 years to
his high school sweetheart, Kellie. They have three children, three grandsons, and more on the
way!
Pastor Keith loves people and desires God’s best for every person he meets. He is committed
to equipping and empowering individuals and churches to walk in their God-given destiny. His
preaching, books and leadership development all focus on one thing, raising people up into their
full potential in Christ.
Pastor Chuck Vizthum
Midwestern Region
Pastor Chuck Vizthum
Midwestern Region
Pastor Chuck is the lead pastor at Whole Life Church in Sturgis, MI. After pursuing a business degree in college, he worked in the banking industry for 14 years. Five of those years, he was also the pastor of a United Methodist church. Then, sensing a call to full-time ministry, he planted Whole Life Church 27 years ago. He has been an adjunct faculty member of theROAR, a ministry training school in Crown Point, IN, for the last seven years. Pastor Chuck has been married to his wife, Kim, for 41 years. They have seven children and 16 grandchildren.
Pastor Chad Cocran
Southern Campus Host
Pastor Chad Cocran
Southern Campus Host
Pastor Chad is the son of Pastor Jerry Cocran, the founder of Generations Church (formerly New Jerusalem Praise and Worship Center), where Pastor Chad grew up attending. In 2001, he moved to Thailand to serve as a missionary where he met his wife, Nan. Over the next 17 years, Pastors Chad and Nan worked together to preach the Gospel and plant churches among the unreached peoples of Southeast Asia. In 2018, they returned to the US to become the lead pastors of Generations Church. God has blessed their family with two wonderful children, Sam and Ana.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Instructors for the online video courses at the School of Ministry will be NRP pastors and leaders who have a known passion for and focus on the subject they will teach. We know you’ll love hearing from so many different spiritual fathers who are excited to share their love for ministry with you!
ADMINSTRATIVE STAFF
Ashley Roll
Registrar
Ashley Roll
Registrar
Ashley Roll is the NRP School of Ministry Registrar. She graduated from theROAR ministry training school at Living Stones Church in 2013 after completing her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at Valparaiso University. She then spent seven years serving on different teams in Asia – doing everything from leading the church cleaning team, starting small groups, teaching in international ROAR schools, and pioneering a GlobalROAR mission team in Southeast Asia as a Senior Missionary.
In 2020, the borders of many countries closed due to COVID-19, and she returned to the U.S. to help in the GlobalROAR home office. As the Registrar, she is usually found in the office organizing and sending lessons to our field directors around the world, editing classes, entering grades, or answering calls and emails.
Gina Santana
Admin. Assistant
Gina Santana
Admin. Assistant
Gina is the NRP School of Ministry Administrative Assistant. She graduated from Greenville College with her Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership. She and her husband, David, have been happily married for 23 years and have two children.
For the last 18 years, they have been in ministry together, involved in a variety of leadership roles in the local church including serving as Life Group leaders and coaches, leading mission trips, and teaching in ROAR schools in Latin America.
As the Administrative Assistant, she will be your contact person for any questions or concerns you may have regarding the school.
LEADERSHIP TEAM and faculty
Pastor Keith Tucci
Senior Apostolic
Team Leader, NRP
Pastor Keith Tucci
Senior Apostolic
Team Leader, NRP
Pastor Keith Tucci has served in a variety of ministerial roles, including pastor, church planter, and missionary. Until 2015, Keith was pastoring Living Hope Church in Pennsylvania. Currently, he serves as the Apostolic Team Leader for the Network of Related Pastors. Keith and his wife, Penny, have been married for over 40 years. They have 8 children and 15 grandchildren.
Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr.
Academic Dean
Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr.
Academic Dean
Pastor Ron has been the Senior Pastor of Living Stones Church (lstones.org) for the last 12
years. Before that, he served as Sr. Associate Pastor and Youth Pastor. His passions include
discipling men, developing leaders, building strong marriages, and reaching unreached nations
with the Gospel. He frequently travels to teach in ROAR schools which train and equip national
pastors.
He is part of the Apostolic Team of NRP and loves encouraging pastors to take a more active
role in reforming our culture. He and his wife, Marion, have been happily married for 37 years
and have been blessed with 8 children and 7 grandchildren.
Pastor Dick Bashta
Director
Pastor Dick Bashta
Director
For the last 45 years, Pastor Dick and his wife, Susie, have been missionaries, mission pastors, and directors of two mission sending organizations based at their local church. They served with Bro. Rod and Mary Aguillard in Reserve, LA for 20 years, and for the last 16 years, they have been mission pastors at Living Stones Church in Crown Point, IN.
In 2008, Pastor Dick founded Global ROAR, a mission sending organization and the ROAR, a ministry training school, which he directs. There are now 19 ROAR schools in 11 nations of the world, equipping national pastors to plant churches in their countries and beyond. For the last 25 years, Pastor Dick’s focus has been on reaching unreached peoples and “Turning the Great Commission into the Great Completion!” He and Susie have ministered in 56 countries of the world and have a passion to do two things - TRAIN and SEND!
Susie Bashta
Administrative Director
Susie Bashta
Administrative Director
Susie has a passion for serving the Body of Christ through her gifts of administration, excellence, creativity, and building teams. Although she is a registered nurse by education, her real love is serving side by side with her husband, Dick, in starting ROAR schools in the nations and handling the myriad of details that curriculum, travel, and correspondence with national directors involve. She also enjoys leading short-term mission trips.
She and Dick have been happily and strategically married for 45 years. They have five children, all serving in ministry, and eight grandchildren.
REGIONAL MENTORS
Pastor Gary Paladin
Northern Region
Pastor Gary Paladin
Northern Region
With a prophetic edge, a heart for the lost, and extensive work overseas, this church planter, business owner, and pastor of 33 years brings experience and energy to the NRP School of Ministry Team.
Pastor Keith Hodges
Southern Region
Pastor Keith Hodges
Southern Region
Pastor Keith Hodges is the founding/lead pastor of Liberty Church Campuses in North Alabama
where he has been preaching and pastoring for 30 years. He has been married for 32 years to
his high school sweetheart, Kellie. They have three children, three grandsons, and more on the
way!
Pastor Keith loves people and desires God’s best for every person he meets. He is committed
to equipping and empowering individuals and churches to walk in their God-given destiny. His
preaching, books and leadership development all focus on one thing, raising people up into their
full potential in Christ.
Pastor Chuck Vizthum
Midwestern Region
Pastor Chuck Vizthum
Midwestern Region
Pastor Chuck is the lead pastor at Whole Life Church in Sturgis, MI. After pursuing a business degree in college, he worked in the banking industry for 14 years. Five of those years, he was also the pastor of a United Methodist church. Then, sensing a call to full-time ministry, he planted Whole Life Church 27 years ago. He has been an adjunct faculty member of theROAR, a ministry training school in Crown Point, IN, for the last seven years. Pastor Chuck has been married to his wife, Kim, for 41 years. They have seven children and 16 grandchildren.
Pastor Chad Cocran
Southern Campus Host
Pastor Chad Cocran
Southern Campus Host
Pastor Chad is the son of Pastor Jerry Cocran, the founder of Generations Church (formerly New Jerusalem Praise and Worship Center), where Pastor Chad grew up attending. In 2001, he moved to Thailand to serve as a missionary where he met his wife, Nan. Over the next 17 years, Pastors Chad and Nan worked together to preach the Gospel and plant churches among the unreached peoples of Southeast Asia. In 2018, they returned to the US to become the lead pastors of Generations Church. God has blessed their family with two wonderful children, Sam and Ana.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Instructors for the online video courses at the School of Ministry will be NRP pastors and leaders who have a known passion for and focus on the subject they will teach. We know you’ll love hearing from so many different spiritual fathers who are excited to share their love for ministry with you!
ADMINSTRATIVE STAFF
Ashley Roll
Registrar
Ashley Roll
Registrar
Ashley Roll is the NRP School of Ministry Registrar. She graduated from theROAR ministry training school at Living Stones Church in 2013 after completing her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at Valparaiso University. She then spent seven years serving on different teams in Asia – doing everything from leading the church cleaning team, starting small groups, teaching in international ROAR schools, and pioneering a GlobalROAR mission team in Southeast Asia as a Senior Missionary.
In 2020, the borders of many countries closed due to COVID-19, and she returned to the U.S. to help in the GlobalROAR home office. As the Registrar, she is usually found in the office organizing and sending lessons to our field directors around the world, editing classes, entering grades, or answering calls and emails.
Gina Santana
Admin. Assistant
Gina Santana
Admin. Assistant
Gina is the NRP School of Ministry Administrative Assistant. She graduated from Greenville College with her Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership. She and her husband, David, have been happily married for 23 years and have two children.
For the last 18 years, they have been in ministry together, involved in a variety of leadership roles in the local church including serving as Life Group leaders and coaches, leading mission trips, and teaching in ROAR schools in Latin America.
As the Administrative Assistant, she will be your contact person for any questions or concerns you may have regarding the school.
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