NYTS is Entering a New Era

• Educate and train compassionate and self-reflective pastoral caregivers.
• Integrate spirituality and psychology and offer a holistic approach to healing and restoration. 
• Develop and sharpen listening skills, assess needs, effectively intervene to assist in spiritual, emotional, and psychological growth and healing; specifically, the curriculum focuses on mental health issues, such as trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide, grief and loss, personality disorders, and family violence.

• Prepare students to serve as dynamic, relevant, and adaptive educational faith and thought leaders in a wide range of Christian ministries.
• Identify preferred format at the time they apply.  
• Equip with the training and skills necessary to lead, develop, and design educational programs within churches, schools, and other institutional settings.

• Envision “a diverse and inclusive community of learners” and provides resources, tools, and strategies for effective leadership with a special focus on the urban context, with global perspectives.
• Integrates theological education with transformational, administrative and organizational theory and practice, building on the student’s own cultural and experiential competencies.
• Learn leadership, management and transformational change strategies that promote transformation and positive change.

Only located at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, the MPS is a 36-credit degree with a fixed curriculum that includes biblical studies (First and Second Testament), theology, history, ethics, and mission and ministry studies.