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TRAINING RESOURCES GUIDE TO SCHOOLS MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM PROGRAMS IN NORTH AMERICA by Mislinks Ranging from a certificate in missions to a Ph.D. MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PARTNERS ITP provides practical, interactive, biblical training for Christians from around the world, equipping Christ's servants to relate effectively in cross cultural contexts with others. ELIJAH COMPANY Global partnerships, churches and agencies, hundreds of years of cumulative experience, a multi-racial, interdenominational board make up the personnel resources of Elijah Company, Inc. MISSIONARY TRAINING SERVICE The MTS is currently producing a series of missionary training guides especially appropriate for tentmakers. NEXT STEP The Next Step: North American Partnership in Mission Training is a working partnership of evangelical North American churches, mission agencies, mission trainers and mission mobilizers who are committed to equipping Christian workers in the areas of character, ministry skills and knowledge for effective cross-cultural ministry. MISSION TRAINING INTERNATIONAL Since 1954 more than 14,000 missionaries and their children have received MTI’s specialized, pre-field training. Each year more than 150 evangelical sending agencies are impacted by MTI’s programs, workshops or conferences. WORLDVIEW RESOURCE GROUP WRG provides training in cross-cultural church planting methodolgies based on a worldview approach to ministry. WORKSHOPS THE JOURNEY DEEPENS This weekend is about being in passionate pursuit of: 1) developing a closer relationship with God, 2) praying for God's glory to come to all peoples, 3) discovering whether God is calling you to become a missionary or serve as a sender. The retreat includes worship, life-changing speakers, powerpoint presentations, small group discussion and prayer, Q & A with experienced missionaries, bookstore, personal reflection and prayer. ARTICLE BEST PRACTICE STANDARDS FOR MISSIONARY TRAINING (WEA) This paper was presented at the IFMA/EFMA Personnel Conference held at the IMB Missionary Learning Center, Rockville, Virginia, 4-6 December 2003 BOOKS SEND ME! YOUR JOURNAL TO THE NATIONS by Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor Urbana.org, with the permission of World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), has reprinted portions of Send Me! for easy, online use. E-BOOKS TOWARD BEST PRACTICES IN MISSIONARY TRAINING (An e-publication of Next Step: The North American Partnership in Mission Training, Hayward Armstrong and Ben Sells, Editors, National Missionary Training Forum 2004) ARTICLES WHY OVERSEAS MISSIONARY TRAINING WORKS: SWIMMING IS BEST LEARNED WET by Roger Charles| Rice paddies surrounded the seminary where Dirk studied church planting. Friends debated the theory and practice of Muslim evangelism over heaping bowls of rice and chili peppers. The competing melodies of Indonesian church music and the call to prayer at a dozen nearby josques set the mood for his theological studies. Crowded dorms and buses and the lack of clocks and electricity taught Dirk volumes about the values and realities of ministry in another culture. The farmers in his village church grew to respect the foreigner who was first a learner, then a teacher. (Read more) top LANGUAGE ACQUISITION See: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION top |