The contexts and primary social relationships of ministry students are vital to biblical leadership development. Our distance education programs serve students that are “rooted” in contexts of ministry in which other church leaders are already functioning as mentors, even before the students enroll, not unlike BILD was doing with churches, church networks, and ministry organizations before the Antioch School was founded. The Antioch School does not operate extension sites in churches, but provides competency-based degree program options to accompany the efforts of churches and ministry organizations to use BILD resources for the training of its existing and emerging leaders.