Wagner Leadership Institute Canada trains and equips men and women for leadership positions in local churches and in translocal ministries. All Christians should continue learning and growing.

"To stop learning, is to stop our                           pursuit of God." (Winkie Pratney)

WLI provides earned training units that can be seen as credential for church and ministry leaders who desire ordination, licensing, or other forms of public recognition.

Our mission is to equip leaders in the necessary skills for effective ministry.  A student would need to be ordained in their own ministerial stream, so WLI provides training.  It is designed especially, although not exclusively, to meet the needs of leaders who have become a part of the New Apostolic Reformation.  For literally thousands of these leaders, and others as well, the present educational system designed for Christian ministers is virtually inaccessible.

These significant findings have been recently reported:

"Most pastors agree that they were inadequately trained for the job of leading the local church. Yet, some seminaries continue to forge ahead, providing much of the same irrelevant (and in some cases, misleading and harmful) education that has been their forte for the past century. One response has been churches creating their own ministry education centers to raise up leaders and teachers from within their congregations. Another response has been for churches to hire believers who have secular training and experience in professional fields and allow them to learn the content of ministry realities while they are on the job.  There is little doubt that churches are in desperate need of effective leadership as the challenges confronting the Church becomes more complex, more numerous and more daunting.

"But how will those leaders be identified, developed, and nurtured for effective ministry leadership? Is there a role for the seminary in the future of the church? If so, what should that seminary look like and what would its ideal role be?  If churches continue to rely on seminaries or some alternative developmental structure to provide them with leaders, it is imperative that the leader training grounds be reshaped. Mere tinkering with a broken system won't provide the answer; creating a holistic, strategic and intelligently-crafted process is needed.”

Your total Christian education: including Bible College, conferences, and other Bible courses - plus any secular education - are added to your years of lay ministry or full time ministry in order to determine your unique starting place with WLI educational standing. Each student is assessed and placed in the appropriate diploma level program: associate, bachelor, masters, or doctorate level. Every student is placed differently according to their education and ministry history. The remaining training units needed to earn an advanced diploma can be obtained in a variety of ways.

Apply today! It costs only $50 to have your application evaluated and find your starting placement.