School of World Missions - Curriculum

Core Courses

• Every Nation Vision and Values (6 hours)
• Discipleship Principles – Four E’s (12 hours)
• Spirituality Formation (6 hours)
• Leadership Skills (6 hours) 

Specialized Content

Missionary Anthropology

• Understanding the Culture
• Contextualization
• Language Learning
• Doing Theology in Context
• Hermeneutics
• Communication
• Case Studies

Missionary Strategy

• Cross-cultural Evangelism
• Contextualized discipleship – raising up local leaders
• Contextualized Church Planting
• Natural Church Development
• Local Church Leadership
• Urban Missions – Research and developing strategy
• Self sufficiency – self-supporting, self-governing, self-reproducing
• Ministry to Muslims/Buddhists/Hindus – with OJT
• TESOL
• How to lead/receive short term mission teams

Missionary Life

• Overview of Missionary Life
• Spiritual Formation
• Coping with Culture shock and culture stress
• Missionary family and finances
• Team work – Team dynamics, conflict resolution
• Re-entry
• Risk assessment and crisis management
• Pre-departure and Re-entry debriefing with Christian psychologist   

Practicum

• Overseas Missions – 7 to 10 days
• OJT – Cross-cultural participant observation – 3 days
• Mentoring with Missionaries
• International Student Ministry
• Thesis Presentation