Prime FAQ

Students can get Portland Bible College credit from PRIME for an additional cost of $50 per credit. It is optional to take advantage of this, but it is also a great incentive for students. Each section of PRIME is worth one semester credit. Students can get up to four PBC credits if they attend PRIME every high school year.

You will need to do some administrative work to report progress and track attendance. Once your records have been shared with Portland Bible College, students can be granted semester credit. Credit will be stored in our system.

Our ‘internship in a box’ is delivered online for the facilitator to download and distribute to their students.

Everything that you need to run the program! High-quality video lectures, downloadable student notes workbook, marketing material templates, promo video to aid in announcements, ministry experience guiding documents, and more.

It is college-level content, packaged in a way that is appropriate for the attention span of a high school student. The content is not exhaustive, but it is designed to spark a new curiosity regarding topics that go beyond what they are usually exposed to in Sunday school and Youth group.

The students do not, but the facilitator who is running the program can access deeper knowledge on the topics that their students are taught in PRIME through our online and curriculum license programs. Students can also transfer their PRIME credits into Portland Bible College after high school and be taught directly by some of those professors.

Students will need to have completed 8^th grade as a minimum. High school graduates can still be enrolled if the High school students, college students, and young adults have all reported that the content and topics are extremely relevant to their current context. We think the ideal age is 16-24-year-olds, but many adults, especially parents of young adults, find the topics very helpful. Students should have completed 8^th grade as a minimum.

Yes. The video sessions you see were taught to a live group of Mannahouse Youth students.

Although we encourage the practical aspects of the program as part of a full internship experience, in order to receive college credit, the academic portion is enough, as long as their attendance is tracked and reported.

Yes. We will provide you with what we did and how we did it, but you are able to rearrange the components however they fit best for your youth group.

Everyone needs a pipeline of people who are training to do the work of the ministry that the staff has to run. With the support of your lead pastor, as a program director, you will need to encourage your staff to see this as an opportunity to build a pipeline and invest in their future team members.

Not yet. But most of the topics that are covered in PRIME are actually part of the courses in our Spanish Certificate of Theology, along with much more content, and it is available online for Spanish-speaking pastors and churches.

Besides facilitating the class times and encouraging discussions after each video lecture, youth pastors and leaders are there to foster community with the group throughout every activity and serving time

Each section you sign up for will be available to access and use for six months.

Our program materials include a sample expenses sheet that reflects the costs to run the internship with a group of 50 students. Each youth group can then adapt its budget to its needs and charge its students accordingly.