To accomplish our mission, the MAGL has established six broad goals (bold), each with a specific objective (numbered) to be accomplished by several program achievement-based objectives (bullets):

Biblically Informed Practice  – the Origin & Objective of Leadership 

1. Graduates will integrate theology and praxis to develop informed responses to situations encountered in their ministry/mission.

By the end of the program, students will have:

• Examined and critiqued a variety of contemporary and historical paradigms of mission
• Developed a practical missions application based on a biblical theology of mission

Missional Church  – the Goal of Leadership 

2. Graduates will make plans for their church’s missional engagement with their cultural contexts to promote transformation.

By the end of the program, students will have:

• Contrasted traditional and missional forms of church life
• Assessed their congregations or ministries from the perspective of a holistic missional ecclesiology
• Developed a leadership strategy, including theological, methodological, and behavioral dimensions, for personal and congregational missional renewal

Global Diversity  – the Context of Leadership 

3. Graduates will demonstrate familiarity with the diversity of theories, practices, and global contexts of missional leadership. 

By the end of the program, students will have:

• Distinguished issues of modernity/postmodernity impacting their local ministries/missions
• Identified the effects of globalization on their local contexts and churches
• Developed missiological plans of engagement that reflect both local and global dimensions

Lifelong Learning in a Diverse Community – the Continuing Development of Leadership 

4. Graduates will employ a lifelong learning posture that values peer learning with diverse persons as well as reflection on practice. 

By the end of the program, students will have:

• Developed and fulfilled personal learning plans
• Investigated adult learning principles
• Participated in a diverse community of learning that incorporated peer learning and reflection on practice

Organizational Dynamics  – the Implementation of Leadership 

5. Graduates will examine various organizational dynamics and apply selected administrative theories. 

By the end of the program, students will have:

• Observed their churches/organizations through a variety of organizational development theories
• Evaluated their churches/organizations in order to diagnose health and offer prescriptives if necessary