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Online MACM Application


Before you begin ... Check the Admission Criteria to make sure this degree is for you.

1. Step One is to verify that you are able to receive streaming media, because that’s the way you will receive professors’ lectures in online courses. To test your computer, click here. You must be able to see and hear the message. If you cannot, you will need to download the latest version of Windows Media Player from Microsoft.

After you have completed this step, send an e-mail to Dr. John Aukerman, the Director of Distance Education, and tell him exactly what you saw and heard when your computer received the streaming media.

2. Step Two is to write an admissions essay in a Microsoft Word document and e-mail it as a file attachment to Dr. John Aukerman, the Director of Distance Education. One requirement for admission to this degree is that you must demonstrate that you possess graduate level writing skills. Because most of the academic work in this program is done through the computer, you will need to be able to write clearly, accurately, and at a graduate school level. You will demonstrate your ability to do graduate level writing in this essay. The faculty will evaluate your essay, and if your writing skills are not up to graduate standards, you will not be admitted to this degree. In writing your essay, follow this outline:

1) Your autobiography (not more than 1,000 words)
2) Your conversion (not more than 300 words)
3) Your call to ministry (not more than 300 words)
4) Your academic journey since high school (not more than 250 words)
5) A list of your academic strengths
6) A list of your academic limitations
7) Why you want this online degree (not more than 500 words).

After you have written your essay, send it as a file attachment to Dr. John Aukerman, the Director of Distance Education.

3. Step Three is to print the Application form, follow all instructions in it, complete it, and mail it with your $25 application fee. Click here to download the Application Form, which is a PDF.

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The Director of Distance Education will confirm that he has received each of the items listed above. Congratulations on beginning this next phase of your journey!

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