Course Offerings

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Course A – Title: So, Now You are a Christian – What Next?
In this course participants will have the opportunity to discuss God’s spiritual gifting in support of a Missional Mindset.  It stands to reason that Spiritual gifts must be important to the Spirit of God.  For instance, “God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues” (1 Cor 12:28).  To support the mission of God, The Spirit inspired write of scriptures, allotted patience to face great adversity and loss, gave knowledge to understand all mysteries and a heart to care - “But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.  He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.” Luke 10:25-37 NIV) Knowing how your spiritual gift(s) are important today will help in developing a Missional Mindset for individual and family ministry.  

Course B – Focusing the Missional Eye
Many times in our daily lives, we are often oblivious to the concerns of others and plight of the world around us. Jesus calls his disciples to be both “wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.” We need to be ever present and aware of the world around us and the ways we can be Christ in the world. This course will explore the ways that we as disciples can be better sensitized to the needs around us. With those needs in our “eye” we can move toward addressing those needs.

Course C – Title: Leadership Qualities for a Missional Mindset
“Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. …. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.  I do all this for the sake of the gospel...” (1 Cor 9:19-24 NIV).  Here Paul exemplifies qualities of leadership needed for a Missional Mindset.  In this course participants will have the opportunity to survey biblical and modern leaders who have demonstrated a set of core attributes, both values and competencies, that essential for fostering a mindset towards engagement in the mission of God.   

Course D – A Cultural Orientation - Being Attuned to Context and Culture; You are Not Just another Traveler
This course is an invaluable introduction for Christians interested in avoiding potentially embarrassing and costly social and ethic miscues when advancing the mission of God within other cultures and communities.  It provides and introduction to the need for cross-cultural and contextual (religious, ethic, governmental, etc.) sensitivities when spreading the gospel and or serving socio-economic needs in other communities at home and abroad.

Course E – Title – Marshaling the Will to respond and Succeed Organizationally
Explores what is that will cause us to move out, follow through and sustain the mindset at the institutional level? Scriptural reference: Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? ” (Isaiah 6:8 NIV)

Course F – Title – Making It Happen Organizationally
This course examines why some organizations are more successful than others in developing and sustaining a Missional mindset than others.  In particular it will discuss and present useful processes and structures for enabling Strategic Integration, Planning, Resourcing, Execution & Accountability at the institutional level.  

Course G – Missionizing the Organization
This course will examine the ways that we can attune our organizations to the concerns of mission in the world.

Course H – Identifying Corporate Ministry Opportunity
Exercise: Using the Missional Mindset to identify institutional ministry opportunities at the communal, national, and global levels