• Understand and Practice Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

• Understand the difference between Empowerment vs Entitlement

• Discover how to Map Maturity Markers

• Practice and Teach Biblical Stewardship

• Exemplify and Create Self-Learners

• Discover how to Run a Safe, Spiritual and Stretching Lifegroup

• Discover how to Cultivate Good Soil

• Learn how to live in Safe, Spiritual, Stretching Relationships

• Understand Social Influences (Family & Friends)

• Identify Call of God in Others.

• Identify Anointing on Others (Ascension Gifts)

• Identify and Develop Spiritual Gifts

• Development Pathway: Understand the 70/20/10 Principle

• Learn how to Resolve Conflict in Teams

• Strengthen your Adversity Quotient and Problem Solving Skills

• Learn how to carry Macro Vision

• Discover how to cast Micro Vision

• Discover how to Gather and Galvanize Teams

• Learn basic Crisis Response Skills

• Understand how to approach Grief and Loss

• Learn how to Lead through Major Life Events (Babies etc)

• Training in Officiating Weddings

• Training in Officiating Funerals

• Learn how to complete Home and Hospital Visits

• Discover how to Resolve Congregational Conflict

• Learn the Importance of Personal & Professional Boundaries

• Understand the role of Referring: When and How

• Learn and practice the skill of Active Listening

• Practice writing and preaching a message

• Learn how to conduct effective Altar Calls

• Receive training in effective Prayer Ministry

• Discover the art of MC'ing

• Learn how to lead people through Communion & Offering

• Discover the role and power of the Holy Spirit for mission

• Discover different missional approaches: street witnessing, treasure hunting, love thy neighbour, church services, short and long term mission trips and crusades

• Learn how to navigate the wins and the losses

• Learn how to craft your testimony into 30seconds, 3minutes and 30minute messages

• Receive foundational apologetics training

• Gain insight into leading Charity’s and NFP’s

• Discover what goes into setting up International Programs and Organizations

• Discover how to implement Fund Raising Programs

• Gain insight into working with International Governments

• Understand the role of ACCI and other International Orgs

• Discover Best HR Practices

• Learn how to take Minutes in a Meeting

• Learn how to Implement Great Events

• Discover how to Write Empowering Training Documents

• Understand the impact and use of Social Media

• Learn how to Empower Leaders

• Discover the Benefits of Debrief and Review (OKR's)

• Practice Planning a Ministry Year

• Learn how to Manage Budgets

• Discover Best Practices for Workplace Communication

• Understand the Importance of Compliance

• Learn how to completed Risk Assessments & Incident Reports

• Complete Safer Churches Training and Understand it’s Importance

• Discover how to write Annual Reports

• Navigate Church Programs & Platforms

Hope Academy is committed to helping you discover your unique gifts and anointing on your life. The Kingdom of God is diverse and that diversity is powerful and intentional. God shaped you with this moment in time in mind. He needs you to step into the gifts on your life, whether that’s in business, in administration, in operations, in health and education or ministry; it’s all for his Glory.

The Diploma of Leadership is best completed full time and it will take you one full year (two semesters) to do so. Semesters are 13 weeks long so the course is 26 weeks of the year.

Full time consists of Monday 3pm-9pm, Tuesdays 9am-5pm and one additional day each week of Weekly Ministry Experience in your local church for the duration of your study.

Sure do! If you wish to complete the Diploma of Leadership but still need to work throughout the week, then you can study in a part time manner.

Part time is two subjects a semester. There is a total of eight subjects for the Diploma of Leadership so this will take you two years to finish.

Part time is Monday nights from 6-9pm, covering the two subjects.

Semester One 2025 starts with O-Week on Monday 24th and 25th of February and continues through to Friday 13th of June. There's a two week holiday in the middle too; from Easter weekend to beginning of May.

There's a nice seven week holiday in-between semesters.

Semester Two 2025 starts Monday 4th of August and continues through to Friday 14th of November. There's a two week holiday again from end of September to beginning of October.

Hope Academy has four outcomes that we believe will empower you to have Kingdom influence wherever you go:

IDENTITY

Firstly, know who you are in Christ and why you believe what you believe. Our identity as Christians is not in our careers, our roles in society or our emotions; it's firmly in Christ alone. To lead others we first have to know how to lead ourselves.

CALLING

Secondly, know where God has called you and why he needs you specifically. See the bigger picture for your life and develop the gifts God has given you. The Diploma of Leadership is applicable to any and every sphere of life, helping you step into places and spaces with confidence and courage.

EQUIPPING

Thirdly, be equipped through world class content, nationally recognized training and hands on experience and mentoring to not just know what you think, but also how to implement change WYG.

CONNECTION

Fourthly, find a great bunch of mates that will cheer you on and walk through life with you. Be sharpened by people in other area’s of expertise and broaden your perspective on the Kingdom.

We’ve intentionally designed Hope Academy to include components that enable and foster growth and development.

PRACTICAL MINISTRY

We invite you to immerse yourself in practical expressions of ministry. These may be outside of your comfort zone, even outside of your natural skill set. Liken it to walking on water. We believe that growth starts where our current ability ends. There will be reflection exercises, debriefs and group discussions to process and learn from your experience.

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES

We invite you to intentionally develop positive spiritual practices that will continually transform your life. This will take discipline and determination, but is where your walk with God will truly flourish. These will be practiced individually and as a cohort, with reflection and discussion opportunities.

QUALITY TEACHING

We invite you to engage with world class teaching around the bible, ministry, missions, NFP and leadership. This will take focus and humility. There will be discussion groups and reflection opportunities around the content.

PERSONAL MENTORING

We invite you to participate in a mentoring relationship. This is about finding someone to walk this journey of transformation with you. Someone that has gone before us to speak into our journey. This may be challenging at times, but it will always be rewarding.

This is you sinking your teeth into ministry. For approximately 8hrs a week you work behind the scenes with a supervising pastor to help plan, develop and implement programs and events in a ministry of your choice. There is a WME Agreement signed between you and your supervisor and weekly meetings are required for debriefing and feedback. This is a great opportunity to grow in your ministry giftings and because we take it so seriously, it’s something we’ll discuss more in person at your interview finding out what your passions are, what your current ministry experience is and what your future calling is. Please note, classes are on Monday and Tuesday and cannot be adjusted, however, your Weekly Ministry Experience is flexible. If you work part time we are committed to finding you a ministry opportunity that fits into your schedule.

Assessed subjects for Diploma of Leadership are $1490.* Total Diploma cost is $11,920.*

FEE-Help is available for Australian Citizens and New Zealand Passport holders that meet the criteria as laid out on the Aus Gov website.

If you are not eligible for FEE-Help you can either pay upfront directly to Alphacrucis for each subject you enroll in each semester or you can enquire about securing a study loan.

*Fee's correct at time of writing, subject to change in 2025.

1. ACA001 Faith and Purpose

2. EXP001 Professional Practice

3. MIN001 Intro to Pastoral Ministry

4. BIB009 Intro to Old Testament

5. BIB010 Intro to New Testament

6. THE005 Intro to Theology

7. LEA005 Leadership Principles

8. LEA004 Personal Leadership

We want to immerse you in life changing experiences throughout your time at Hope Academy. You’ll get to be part of the following:

• Weekly Chapel

• Exposure to not-for-profit leaders

• Weekly Outreach

• Weekly Ministry Experience

• Church Wide Events

• A Missions Trip*

• Regional ACC Meetings

• State & National ACC Events

• ACC Emerging Leaders Camp*

*Missions trips and ACC Emerging Leaders camps are an additional cost to each student determined by flights and accommodation. Hope Centre runs the missions trips so the opportunity is limited to spaces and availability.

Jesus sent his disciples out to “heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons,” before they graduated from “Jesus school.” He then debriefed them on their return as they marveled that even demons listened to them. Jesus illustrated a ‘learning by doing’ teaching style and we think it’s pretty genius. Some may have Outreach Opportunities built in to your Weekly Ministry Experience so these are optional for you. For others who don’t we will chat this through, look at your week and help you choose from the following Weekly Outreach Opportunities:

• Shower Truck (BNE)

• Uni Ministry / Red Frogs (BNE)

• Community Lunches (LGN)

• Mimi’s House (MTN & LGN)

• School’s Ministries (MTN, BNE, LGN)

This is a pivotal moment for every cohort. O-Week happens straight up, first week of college to set the tone for your whole time with us. We kick off with all the admin on the Monday morning so you can access all your subjects and chat groups etc. Then Monday and Tuesday are 48hrs sitting under powerful teaching, great worship, receiving ministry from your pastors and encountering God. God wants to increase your capacity to receive and grow in your time at Academy and deal with any hang up’s we might have that could try and get in the way down the track. Come ready for a life changing couple of days!