6) Pre-Field Training Among The Diaspora
Global Frontier Missions has missionary training programs every Jan and Aug in Atlanta, Houston, Richmond, and Sydney, Australia. They couple classroom learning using an engaging format (head) and discipleship/mentoring/community living (heart) along with on-the-job training (hands). Students live incarnationally and work with Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Chinese in heavily concentrated refugee and immigrant apartment complexes which is great experience before people launch out overseas. Bible degrees are available as well. Learn more at…
All Nations Family mission agency has partnered with 10 universities in Asia to provide teachers. They also offer a missions bootcamp called Church Planting Experience (CPx) in Kansas City June 5-24 which ramps up to departing for Asia in August. Also, Online TESOL training is available for those without teaching experience for $250 and CPx costs $1500 (includes housing). Families encouraged to bring their children to CPx. Learn more at…
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Here’s a TESOL training course with Asia’s Center for TESOL from June 1 – July 3. Asia’s Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) conducts intensive, five-week courses leading to a TESOL certificate. For the first three weeks the classes are Monday-Friday, 8-4. For the last two weeks, the classes are 8-12, followed by a two-hour practicum in the afternoon or evening. This totals 120 hours in class and 20 hours of practicum (10 hours observing and 10 hours teaching).
TRAIN International’s 2-week, pre-departure training called ORIENT is coming up for missionaries in preparation. At ORIENT (April 20 – May 3 and September 7 – 20) you’ll engage in activities that address spiritual formation, personal identity, personal and cultural values, expectations, transitions, stress management, leaving well and more. TRAIN partners with Discovery Ministries during this training to lead participants through outdoor challenges and group initiatives to assimilate healthy relational skills and conflict resolution strategies. Learn more at…
Global Frontier Missions has been training missionaries to go to unreached peoples of the world for almost 15 years. This fall they are launching their newest school in Houston. The school is focused on training missionaries who are trained as English as a Second Language teachers to be able to go to almost every closed country in the world. Students will be living together in community among refugees in the most diverse city in the USA. They will learn and practice organic church planting along with many other important topics every career missionary needs to know. For more information, visit their website at 
Act Beyond is hosting a one-day Disciple Making Movement Training at their headquarters in Plano, TX (just outside of Dallas) on Saturday, March 21. Learn biblical principles that are key to every movement of disciples multiplying disciples and churches. To see all of Act Beyond’s upcoming trainings and to register, go to:
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Is it, like for the apostle Paul, “your ambition to preach the gospel where Christ is not known?” (Rom 15:20) If so, this could be just the opportunity for you. World Outreach International is sending out “Alpha Mission Teams” to unreached people groups. AMT is a practical two-year missionary training programme for both single people and families. During this time you not only learn, but you actually do the work – adapt to a new culture, learn the language, reach out to lost people.
“Launch” is an intensive, five-day training experience designed to prepare the body of Christ to make disciples as they work or study abroad. Created in partnership between Skybridge and IMB, it’s open to any believer with the desire to learn to integrate their work and faith for the purpose of reaching the nations. What do you receive? You get best practices for integrating work and faith, training in effective evangelism and discipleship, and a lot more. Get the whole picture by visiting… 
Asia’s Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) conducts intensive, five-week courses leading to a TESOL certificate. … [edited] For the first three weeks the classes are Monday-Friday, 8-4. For the last two weeks, the classes are 8-12, followed by a two-hour practicum in the afternoon or evening. This totals 120 hours in class and 20 hours of practicum (10 hours observing and 10 hours teaching). Contact Kathy for application forms or more information:
YWAM has a Discipleship Training School and a School of Evangelism coming u in Myrtle Beach. They’ll be partnering with local churches in the Academic lecture phase and will do outreach to some of the 12 Million tourists there each spring/summer. Learn more at…
The population of Lebanon has doubled with 4 million refugees. These unreached refugee peoples are wide open to the gospel. Will you go to share the gospel with those who’ve never heard, even once? Go as a long-term individual to the least-reached in as little as one year. Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Orlando’s School of Missions
George Patterson. To me, he’s like a myth, a legend, and a hero, all rolled up into one. He wrote these booklets as he trained a handful of would-be pastors. He asked them to use the booklets with others, introducing them to the gospel too, explaining how they need to start their own Jesus gatherings. Over time, he started hundreds of churches, most of whom he had never even visited. Why? Because his disciples were so well trained, they accomplished the impossible. Learn more at …
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