WELCOME to the
Network of Related Pastors (NRP) School of Ministry!
The NRP School of Ministry has been specifically created with a strategic purpose: to give an opportunity for those who are currently serving in leadership at their 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 becoming part of our new intake of students in January 2024.
WELCOME to the
Network of Related Pastors
(NRP) School of Ministry!
The NRP School of Ministry
has been specifically created with a strategic purpose: to give an opportunity for those who are currently serving in leadership at their 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 becoming part of our new intake of students in January 2024.
about the program
This accelerated, 12-month, modular school will include the following components:
A North campus hosted at Living Stones Church in Crown Point, IN, and a South campus hosted 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 campuses for 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 community outreach or a mission trip
An Associate Degree in Christian Ministry will be awarded at the completion of the program.
Once accepted into the program, your spouse may attend at a half-price tuition rate.
We’re excited about this 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, 12-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 community outreach or a mission trip
An Associate Degree in Christian Ministry will be awarded at the completion of the program.
Once accepted into the program,
your spouse 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 ministry and are already faithful and fruitful serving in leadership at their local church
Lifestyle standards which consistently display a consecrated walk with the Lord
An excellent pastoral recommendation from the applicant’s Senior Pastor
An available 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
what PASTORs & students are saying...
application requirements
1. Men and women who sense a call to ministry and are already faithful and fruitful serving in leadership at 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
$3,825 per student
The student's tuition is partially underwritten by the generosity of the
Network of Related Pastors.
SPOUSE TUITION RATE
We love having couples attend together! Once accepted into the program, your
spouse may attend at a half-price deposit and tuition rate.
FEES
$25 Application fee: due when application is submitted
$100 Deposit applied to the Live Teaching Weekends: due December 1
$100 Graduation fee: due January 1, 2025
$225 TOTAL Fees
Tuition
$3,600 Paid in full or 12 monthly payments of $300
$3,825 TOTAL COST OF THE SCHOOL OF MINISTRY
TEXTBOOKS
Required textbooks will be listed prior to each semester. The student will be responsible for purchasing the assigned textbook for each month. Each book cost will be approximately $15 to $20.
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.
Want to sponsor a student?
For a student to get credits awarded and the maximum impact from the quarterly, in person, weekend events, attendance at both Live Teaching Weekends (LTW's), the two Saturday regional cohort gatherings, and graduation is required. If a student finds that they cannot attend one of these gatherings midway through the school year, they will be asked to put a "pause" on their attendance at the school, and the credits they have already earned will be retained. Students may then reapply to the school the following year to continue their studies.
more from the students...
tuition & FEES
TOTAL COST
$3,825 per student
$4,350 per student
SPOUSE TUITION RATE
We love having couples attend together! Once accepted into the program, your
spouse may attend at a
half-price deposit and tuition rate.
FEES
$25 Application fee: due when application is submitted
$100 Orientation/Live Teaching Weekends
$100 Graduation Fee
$225 TOTAL Fees
Tuition
$3,600 Paid in full or 12 monthly payments of $300
$3,825 TOTAL COST OF THE SCHOOL OF MINISTRY
TEXTBOOKS
Required textbooks will be listed prior to each semester. The student will be responsible for purchasing the assigned textbook for each month. Each book cost will be approximately $15 to $20.
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.
Want to sponsor a student?
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
President, SOM
Senior Apostolic Team Leader, NRP
Pastor Keith Tucci
President, SOM
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. This year, there are 16 ROAR schools in 12 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
Lisa Lane
Office Manager
Lisa Lane is the GlobalROAR office manager and registrar of the NRP School of Ministry. She has been involved with missions since 2011 when she went on her first trip to China and fell in love with the nations. She graduated from theROAR ministry training school in 2016 and joined the GlobalROAR team for two years. After that she managed a local family practice clinic for five years and has recently returned to be a part of the Global ROAR and NRP staff.
She has served in the local church for over ten years in different areas including children’s ministry, as a Life Group leader, and as part of the ministry team at Encounters. When she is not in the office, she enjoys her role as Auntie to seven nieces and nephews and her friend’s children as well as teaching in Living Stones’ homeschool classes.
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
President, SOM
Senior Apostolic Team Leader, NRP
Pastor Keith Tucci
President, SOM
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
Lisa Lane
Office Manager
Lisa Lane is the GlobalROAR office manager and registrar of the NRP School of Ministry. She has been involved with missions since 2011 when she went on her first trip to China and fell in love with the nations. She graduated from theROAR ministry training school in 2016 and joined the GlobalROAR team for two years. After that she managed a local family practice clinic for five years and has recently returned to be a part of the Global ROAR and NRP staff.
She has served in the local church for over ten years in different areas including children’s ministry, as a Life Group leader, and as part of the ministry team at Encounters. When she is not in the office, she enjoys her role as Auntie to seven nieces and nephews and her friend’s children as well as teaching in Living Stones’ homeschool classes.
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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