As a protégé, you will choose a ministry department to focus your efforts throughout the year.

 

In addition to your department work, you will attend weekly protégé huddles. These huddles are led by Joel Buckner (Program Director). You will also have the opportunity to meet with Mark Batterson (Lead Pastor), Heather Zempel (Discipleship Pastor) and many influential leaders throughout the year. Huddles offer ongoing discipleship training and leadership development in a small group environment that focuses on topics such as Leading Yourself Well, Character Killers, Dreaming God-sized Dreams, Leadership Rhythms, and Dynamics of Teamwork.


 

If you have specific questions about the program, feel free to email us.

 


 

NCC offers protégé experiences in these departments.

  • Communications

    We serve NCC pastoral and ministry teams by helping to get the word out to NCCers, prospective NCCers, and the communities around us. We help people communicate clearly and effectively with the right tool and the right message at the right time. If you're an excellent writer, a creative thinker, and a strategic planner, we'd love to help you explore and grow in these innate talents. You'll learn to apply them by helping to eliminate information overload and strategizing creative ways to most effectively point people to Jesus.
     

  • Creative/Media Team

    We love telling the story of God through great design, video, photography, and film. So whether your main focus is video production, graphic design, photography, or even if you’re just a gear head, we’d love to help you grow in your gifting. Our media team is composed of gifted artists that are committed to helping people have an encounter with God through video and design.

  • Ebenezers Coffeehouse

    We believe that God has wired our church to be in the middle of the marketplace. Jesus not only taught at the synagogues, but he met with people at wells too. Coffeehouses are modern day wells; they are a place where the community and the church can intersect. As a coffeehouse protégé, you will not only be fully trained as a barista but you will be trained on the ins and outs of management and be a part of our mission to do marketplace ministry well.

  • Groups

    At NCC we believe that discipleship happens best in the context of relationships. Small groups are our strategy for growth. On the Groups team you will be exposed to our small group initiatives, equip and train leaders, and support our overall discipleship strategy.

  • Miracle Theatre

    One of our core convictions is that the church should be in the middle of the marketplace and we believe that movie screens are modern stained glass. The Miracle Theatre is a newly launched second run movie theatre and live performance venue. As a Miracle Theatre protégé you will get a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to run a movie theatre and venue, and be a part of our marketplace ministry on Barracks Row.

  • Missions

    Our missions department is formed around assisting the poor, caring for the sick, and transforming through reconciliation. We strive to be on mission every day together wherever and whenever. As a protege you will work on both our local and international initiatives as we empower and equip NCCers to strategically live out our missional mandate as found in Acts 1:8.

  • NCC Kids

    Finding ways to make the gospel sticky for kids goes beyond finger-painting and crafts. It requires strategic relationships and intentional discipleship. On the Family Ministry team, you will be exposed to creative ways to train, develop and lead young people to the Gospel and encourage and support their families to lead at home. You will strategize and implement leadership development tools and training for volunteers who invest in the lives of kids.

  • NCC Youth

    Our students are not the soon-to-be or future Church, they are the Church now. Our heart is to equip students for the work of ministry today, believing that age isn’t a disqualifier. On the Youth Ministry Team, you’ll gain exposure to what it looks like to engage youth in the city, develop as a communicator and pioneer innovative ways of doing youth ministry.

  • Pastoral Care

    NCC’s pastoral care department seeks to meet people’s needs for care, support, and recovery by equipping God’s people to share the hope and freedom they have found in Christ. This includes equipping people to lead support groups and recovery programs and/or to provide better pastoral care in their existing leadership roles; unleashing those with counseling training to provide pastoral care; educating people to help them avoid issues requiring more intensive pastoral care; and identifying and referring to outside counselors, organizations, and programs through which people can find the help they need.

  • Prayer

    NCC Prayer is dedicated to creating safe spaces for people to encounter the love of God through prayer. To that end we aim to support NCC’s prayer ministry in four main areas: intercession, inner healing prayer, training & equipping, and personal prayer ministry appointments. Teaching and using spiritual gifts we partner with the Spirit to bring people into their identity, healing and freedom in Christ. We’re equipping the church to learn to shift atmospheres in their places of employment to see His kingdom come. We’re brokering hope, one prayer at a time. NCC Prayer is fast paced, high touch and high content.

  • Production

    Our mission as the Production team is to create engaging environments that encourage everyone present to join worship, embrace truth, and encounter God. We do this by using audio, video, and lighting elements to transform our locations into unique and creative expressions of who we are. We support the vision of NCC as a whole as well as other ministries by coming along side in planning and running events as well as designing and installing systems. Because we serve multiple unique locations and venues, you will be exposed to a wide range of opportunities for learning, growth, and experience.

  • Worship

    Our worship department is committed to creating sounds and environments that draw people into the presence of God. They believe that excellence honors God, and God honors excellence. You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented and anointed artists and songwriters, as they seek to glorify God through worship. For more info check out nccworship.net