3Circle’s Ministry Residency is a program focused on equipping the next generation of leaders in carrying out the mission of the Church, through hands on ministry experience coupled with biblically based leadership training.
Why 3Circle Church
At 3Circle Church, God has greatly blessed our ministries and given us unique opportunities to reach our communities for the Gospel: locally, regionally, and globally. We are honored to be chosen by God, as a part of the global Church, to carry out His mission and His purposes in and through everything we do. God is working day in and day out, and we want to be a part of what He is doing in our cities and in our world.
About Us
3Circle Church is a thriving body of believers with five campuses across Baldwin, Clarke, and Mobile, Alabama counties. Even as a larger church, we strive to make every guest, regular attender, and member feel like 3Circle is a place they can connect with other believers, grow spiritually, and feel at home. Our goal to accomplish this is through helping lead every person to a growing relationship with Jesus by reaching up in worship, reaching in for spiritual growth, and reaching out to spread the Gospel and show God’s love to the communities around us.
3Circle Church has appeared in Outreach magazine on several occasions for being one of the top 100 churches in the nation, for both size and rate of growth. We believe this is due to God’s blessing and provision over our church, and our passion to reach the lost. At 3Circle, we are always on mission! Along with our local campuses, we partner with 31 missionaries across 20 countries.
Ministry Opportunities
With this reach comes a diverse range of ministry opportunities, including rural, inner-city, non-profit, and community ministry areas. Our newest campus also affords the experience of a set-up/tear-down church model. Though we have multiple campuses under our name, they are all unique and encompass different styles of ministry, all dependent on geographic location and needs of that specific area.
Non-Profit & Urban Ministries
Through a partnership with the non-profit ForMidtown, 3Circle Church is dedicated to the spiritual, economic, and material renewal of the midtown Mobile community. ForMidtown is focused on are helping the Church become a true preview of heaven through intentional multi-class, multi-ethnic, multi -generational ministry. This is done through equip leaders with skills to lead organizational change, live out cross cultural competency, and deploy missional impact in urban communities.
Family Ministries
One of our ever-growing areas of ministry is Family Ministry, encompassing birth-high school, supporting families in training their children to be active disciples of Jesus who take ownership of their faith after high school. As a part of our focused and intentional model of family ministry, our team produces its own age-based curriculum that is now utilized by other churches for Jr. (birth-Pre-K), Kids (K-4th grade), Preteen (5th-6th grade), Middle School (7th-8th grade), and High School (9th-12th grade). Under this umbrella of Family Ministry, we also offer a SOAR ministry, which is the only special needs ministry in our region.
Church Planting – Sending Network
3Circle Church is certified through the North American Mission Board’s Send Network to train and equip qualified candidates for church planting through their curriculum, which has successfully been used to plate over 9,000 churches in North America. Not only is 3Circle church committed to the training of church planters, but the planting of churches locally, regionally, and globally through our very own sending process.
In addition to this, through 3Circle's partnership with GenSend, residents of the Church Planting track will be given the opportunity to spend their summers in a "Send City" getting hands on experience as the work along side active church planters. This amazing opportunity will give residence the chance to understand exactly what it takes to be sent, experience a new and exciting culture, and see what it is like first hand to plant a church; all while building relationships that will last a lifetime.
Worship
Through Worship Ministry, we serve the mission of 3Circle by facilitating an environment in which people encounter the living God (gathered) and are led to please Him with their lives (scattered). We consider our musical worship experience to be a contemporary style with foundations in hymnology and rich theology. At 3Circle, we believe deeply that theology should be connected to every word we sing from any platform.
Branching from our largest campus in Fairhope, AL, we operate with excellence in our technology and media areas, including our live streaming platform and AVL team.
Everyone is gifted uniquely by God, in such a way that God uses all of us, collectively, to fulfill His mission through the local Church. Through a combination of identifying a person's gifts, and where the needs are within the church, people are mobilized to serve at our campuses in a variety of ways. In the context of Worship Arts, we have a process which we call Worship Discovery. The heart of Worship Discovery is helping people explore and develop their music and leadership giftings, and discover ways to serve within Worship Arts ministry at 3Circle.
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3Circle Music is a ministry of 3Circle Church and an official Publishing entity that is the songwriting and recording arm of our Worship Arts ministry. This area exists to reflect the beauty and artistry of our Creator in all that is created; declare God’s unchanging character and redemptive work, through all generations; and engage people in fervent response to Jesus, and in community with one another. With our on-site recording capabilities, studio environment, and mixing/mastering on-staff availability, 3Circle Music releases regular live and studio content that is both original, from our staff writers, and covered from other worship artists in our live setting.
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3Circle Wave is a branch of 3Circle Music, stemming specifically from the unique cultural and diverse environment of our Midtown – Mobile, AL campus.
Young Adults
3Circle Young Adults is a ministry that focuses on building an environment of community, worship, growth, and service for college students and young professionals, ages eighteen to thirty. It does this through two major ways: first, it focuses on monthly worship gatherings, weekly small groups, and events that are intentionally crafted to bring young adults together, while connecting them to the church as a whole. Second, through bi-monthly Gospel training courses, it equips Young Adults with the tools they need to effectively fulfill the great commission in their daily lives.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
While this curriculum will play a part in the program, residents will spend most of their time gaining valuable hands-on ministry experience across all of our campuses, while pinpointing their specific calling through uniquely tailored tracks in the areas of: Church Planting, Non-Profit & Urban Ministries, Student Ministry, Family Ministry, Worship Ministry, Worship Technologies.
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Church Planting
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Student Ministry
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Family Ministry
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Worship Ministry
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Worship Technologies
Now accepting applications for Spring 2024, Summer 2024, and Fall 2024