The SERVE.experience – Certificate of Intercultural Studies

The SERVE.experience is an eight-month discipleship program intended to stimulate personal, spiritual, relational growth as students learn to love and serve the Triune God and other people.

Academic studies, retreats, community service, and cultural experiences combine to strengthen biblical-theological foundations and develop awareness, understanding, skills, and Christ-like attitudes for the complex challenges of being and serving as a disciple and of making disciples in urban and cross-cultural contexts in a life lived on mission.

The SERVE.experience is a stand-alone program but is also the first year of the Intercultural Studies (ICS) degrees. Therefore, the objectives for the SERVE.experience have the ICS degrees in mind. Graduates of an ICS degree, desiring to be a cross-cultural missionary, are characterized by growth in self-awareness leading to Christ-like wholeness, and in cultural awareness leading to wise missiology.

Admission Requirements

• Ontario Secondary School Diploma with a minimum average of 65% overall, 6 grade 12 courses at the U, M, or C level – one of which must be English (with a 60% or above).
• Applicants from other provinces or countries will have their high school transcripts reviewed for equivalency.
• Applicants who are homeschooled may submit test scores from either the SAT or the CLT (Classic Learning Test). For admission to a degree, Heritage requires an SAT score of 950 out of 1600 or 1420 out of 2400. Heritage requires an overall score of 60 or above on the CLT for entrance to a degree; scores for each of the three sections (verbal reasoning, grammar/writing, and quantitative reasoning) may also be considered. Applicants who have scored below 950 on the SAT or 60 on the CLT may be considered on a case-by-case basis for admission to a certificate. For more information, please visit our Admissions Requirements page.

Program Benefits

• Grow in knowledge of the love, grace, and gospel of the Triune God while learning to love and study the Bible.
• Become more aware of yourself as a person, as a child of God, and as a member of a team.
• Learn to share biblical and gospel truth, discerning cultural and worldview dynamics in others.
• Serve others, as a team, with discernment, grace, love, and humility.

• Weekend retreats
• Two long weekend visits to Quebec
• Visits to local churches of other cultures, and to non-Christian religious centres
• Two-week overseas "Worldview Trips" in May

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