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Missions
Training Resources
ACMC—Mobilizing
Local Churches for World Missions
Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment (ACMC) is a network of missions-active
churches through which your church can get specific, practical assistance
tailored to your church's global outreach needs. ACMC will help you mobilize
your congregation, build vision and become strategically involved in world
evangelization through: Personal Consultation, How-To Handbooks, Networking
Publications and National/Regional Conferences and Seminars—all at a
price even the smallest church can afford.
AD2000
and Beyond
This website lists numerous—though not comprehensive—schools and
institutes that provide various missions-related courses and seminars.
Completing
the Task
Antioch Network has a seminar called Completing the Task, which is the best
“spoken” manifestation of Antioch Network philosophy. It has many
similar features to Destination 2000, but delves much more into encouragement,
opportunities and vision specifically for local churches. It's available on
cassette tape, but you'd much rather experience this in person!
Day
of Discovery
This fast-paced, multi-media world missions seminar takes the 150-hour Perspectives
course and boils it down into one powerful day— igniting vision and passion
for reaching the world for Jesus Christ. If you have a missions conference,
or you want to bring together a group of campus ministries, a group of churches,
the entire staff of a large church or ministry or as a prerequisite/training
time for your short-term missionaries this seminar can be used by God to inject
information and inspiration for Christ's global cause.
Destination
2000 (video curriculum)
Ten half-hour videos powerfully unveil the missionary purposes of God throughout
the Bible. Outstanding for motivating believers to get serious about God's
call to reach every people group with the gospel. A 13-week lesson plan is
included.
Directory
of Schools and Professors of Mission and Evangelism
This new directory analyzes data from 257 North American institutions offering
missions and evangelism education. Over 660 programs (degree and non-degree)
are listed, ranging from a certificate in missions to a Ph.D. Several changes,
including the addition of evangelism professors and programs, makes this new
edition an even more useful tool. Also includes listings for members of major
evangelism and mission associations.
Discovering
and Embracing God's Global Purpose
This volume of 18 studies reveals a central theme of scripture—God is
a missionary God who desires to redeem some from every tribe, tongue and nation.
Ideal for individuals, prayer partners wishing to do a study together, or
groups seeking a biblical under-standing of God's purpose and their part in
it. Includes: Discovering and Embracing God's Global Purpose workbook
which includes a leader's guide, The Great Omission, by Robertson McQuilkin,
and two teaching cassettes containing audio selections for use with the workbook.
Emmaus
Road International Seminars
EMI provides a number of excellent training opportunities (live or on audio
and video) for local churches and missionary candidates. These include: Serving
as Senders, Prepare for Battle, For Those Who Go, and Nothing Good Just Happens.
Generation
(video curriculum)
This outstanding five-part video series and study guide was created to help
youth discover their role in fanning the flames of revival and awakening in
America, and to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Generation covers
the following movements affecting youth today: Purity, Prayer, Evangelism
and World Mission.
Perspectives
on the World Christian Movement (Extension Study Program)
Introducing the Biblical, Historical, Cultural and Strategic dimensions of
world missions.
- over 60 denominations
and mission agencies endorse Perspectives;
- perspectives
provides 90-150 hours of study;
- undergraduate
and graduate credit available at various U.S. schools;
- excellent
for missionary candidates, missions committees, mobilizers, elders and pastors;
- fifteen different
professors, each an expert in his/her own field (over 600 nationwide);
- 35,000 alumni
from the U.S. and Canada alone;
- over 100 extension
sites across the U.S. (1999);
- Spanish Perspectives
available on video.
Seminars
from Team
Practical missions seminars can be scheduled right in your own church! The
following seminars are available through The Evangelical Alliance Mission:
- 7 Critical
Points: When Your Missionary Needs You
- Missions:
A Custom-Fit Place for Everyone
- How to Multiply
& Stretch Your Missions Dollars
- Getting New
Missionaries to the Field
- Focus on the
World.
Time frame can
last from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Seminars are accompanied by full-color overhead
illustrations, student handouts, and helpful auxiliary resources. As time
permits, group discussions and problem-solving activities will customize the
learning for your group.
Seven
Dynamics for Advancing your Church in Missions (ACMC)
Seven Dynamics is a two-part seminar teaching the value of missions in an
increasingly complex world, relating missions to current events, politics
and even generational distinctions. Explore a new dimension of missions in
studying God's character, learn how missions involvement develops personal
fulfillment, and find practical ideas to stimulate missions involvement with
biblical integrity. God gets the glory, the nations get the Gospel and we
get the spiritual vitality. Seminar locations and dates determined on a church-by-church
basis.
Wisdom
for the Window: Practical Training for Prayer Journeyers
Steve Hawthorne presents a bold Biblical vision and practical nitty-gritty
“how tos” drawn from the experiences of hundreds of prayer journeyers.
This four-hour video format training tool is taken from some training sessions
offered by Steve Hawthorne in 1995 in Colorado Springs. (Users should preview
and time the sessions they desire to feature, rather than utilizing the entire
four hours). Available from the Christian Information Network.
World
View Video Library
Nine popular videos chosen for their quality, wide audience appeal and ability
to impart mission vision. Includes an outstanding leader's guide for discussing
the videos. Audience: Jr. High through adult. Only $199 for the entire set
of videos and leader's guide. A twenty-minute preview video is available for
$5 (applicable to total cost if purchased).
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