Location: South Elgin,Illinois,United States
The Christ Community Residency is a two-year leadership development program for emerging leaders who feel called to vocational church ministry and is designed to give hands-on ministry experience, personal mentoring, and leadership training to equip future church leaders for a lifetime of ministry significance.
Areas of Ministry Training
Program Breakdown
Residency Areas of Development: Residency covers seven elements of church leadership development in three phases.
Phase 1: Orientation phase - During this phase, the resident coach ensures that the resident becomes a functioning member of the church staff and their ministry team. This includes onboarding training in all systems, shadowing members of the team, weekly one-on-one mentoring meetings, etc.
Phase 2: Maturation Phase - During this phase, the resident actively serves on a ministry team (out front, leading, shepherding, and developing others). Leadership assignments align with gifting, passion areas, and ministry needs. Learning to lead through volunteers. Development coaching in areas that need personal development.
Phase 3: Completion Phase - During this phase, the residents will begin to delegate their responsibilities to volunteer leaders they have trained. They will start working on their resume and job search skills to secure a vocational ministry role. One-on-one coaching continues with the residency mentor.
Beginning with a group of six families in 1984, Christ Community Church has grown to over 5000 weekend attenders, including our DeKalb Campus in DeKalb County, our Aurora Campus in southern Kane County, and our Streamwood Campus in Cook County. A significant focus on reaching spiritually lost people has resulted in over 200 new believers being baptized each year. Christ Community had humble beginnings with services held in a rented movie theater. Weekly activities now take place in our 100,000 square foot St. Charles Campus with weekend celebration services held in our 2000 seat auditorium.
Jim Nicodem has been the senior pastor of Christ Community Church since its birth in 1984. Born and raised in the Midwest, Jim received his BA from Wheaton College, and his MDiv and DMin from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Jim is passionate about prayer and is the author of Prayer Coach, For All Who Want to Get Off the Bench and Onto the Praying Field.
