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A Simple Way To Keep Growing
How Crossway Works
- START WHERE YOU ARE: You don’t need to have everything figured out before you begin. Start with the leadership responsibilities, interests, or challenges you have right now.
- CHOOSE HOW YOU WANT TO GROW: Take one course, complete a certificate, or add electives as your interests and leadership needs develop.
- LEARN AND APPLY: Crossway courses connect learning with real situations so you can use what you are learning in the work, ministry, organization, or community where you serve.
- KEEP GROWING: Leadership development is a journey. Continue learning as your responsibilities change and new opportunities emerge.
Proverbs 20:5
“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.”
TWO CERTIFICATE PATHWAYS
LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS
Develop the practical skills to lead people, understand organizations, make sound decisions, navigate change, and turn plans into action.
6 Core Courses
MINISTRY ESSENTIALS
Build the biblical, theological, spiritual, and practical foundation needed to serve and lead effectively in ministry.
6 Core Courses

OR…SIMPLY TAKE A COURSE
You don’t have to pursue a certificate to learn with Crossway.
Choose an Individual Course that addresses something you want to learn or an area where you want to grow for personal or professional development.
DESIGNED TO FIT REAL LIFE
Online • 7-Week Courses • $149 Per Course • Learn One Course at a Time
Ready To Grow?
Start with one course, explore a certificate, or talk with us about developing leaders within your organization.
What makes crossway different
Lead Where You’re Planted
Grow as a leader while continuing to serve where you already are.
Flexible Learning
Learning designed around the realities of work, family, ministry, and other responsibilities.
Practical Application
Move beyond theory and apply what you learn to real people, teams, decisions, and organizational challenges.
Experienced Guidance
Learn from educators, practitioners, and leaders who understand both leadership theory and organizational reality.
English & Spanish
Learning opportunities designed to serve diverse leaders and organizations in both English and Spanish.
Bring crossway to your organization
Leadership development is often most effective when leaders learn together.
Crossway partners with organizations, churches, nonprofits, schools, and leadership teams to provide practical learning experiences that can be applied directly within their organizational context.
How It Works:
- You host – Bring your leadership team, staff, members or groups together.
- We provide – Curriculum, instruction, learning platform, resources, and guidance.
- Your Leaders grow – Learn together and apply learning to real organizational challenges.
- Your Organization Benefits – Build shared language, stronger leadership practices, and greater alignment.
