Missionary Training School by GFM

Our Missionary Training Schools focus on raising up laborers to serve among unreached people groups in the 10/40 window. They are great schools for people that feel a call to doing cross-cultural missionary work, but it is also a wonderful program for equipping people that want to mobilize others to praying, giving, and going. The goal of our missionary training is to challenge Christians to embrace God's heart for the nations and to play their part in seeing God glorified among every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.

The Missionary Training School is like a five-month missions internship that includes classes, homework, and tests. We read through much of the Bible during the program as well as many other books to help us understand God's Word, missions strategy, and cross cultural communication. The academic side of the school is somewhat challenging as there is a lot of reading involved (one to two books per week), but we also couple that with group discussions, videos, and guest speakers to keep the missionary training exciting.

A large part of the missionary training is also dedicated to hands-on experience doing missionary work. While we value the education that can be attained in the classroom, there really is no substitute for practical experience on the mission field. At least ten hours per week during the missionary training school, we spend time participating in community service, teaching English, learning other languages, doing evangelism, providing discipleship, church planting in apartment complexes, helping with children's programs, leading Bible studies, etc.

This is where the bulk of the true missionary training takes place. As you work alongside full-time missionaries, you will be discipled, coached, and mentored in the skills necessary to become a successful long-term missionary. This is one of the most unique aspect of our missionary training as you get holistic training by studying cross-cultural principles and missions strategy in the classroom, coupled with hands-on missionary training on the field, and all of this happens while living in authentic Christian community. We purposely focus on integral ministry training: head (formal, classroom, theory), heart (informal, community, spiritual), and hands (non-formal, on-the-job, practical).

All missionary training school students will receive a certificate from Global Frontier Missions upon graduation. There is also an option for students to earn a certificate from the International School of Ministry and an associate's Bible degree from Christian Leadership University. This requires one extra book a week and a few extra exams. At the completion of the school year, we highly recommend that all missionary training school students venture on a trip to the 10/40 window to further expose themselves to other ministry possibilities.

Current Missionary Training School topics include: Old and New Testament survey, prayer, spiritual warfare, praise/worship, anthropology, church planting, language learning, relationships, knowing God's will, spiritual gifts, cultural adaptation, discipleship, storytelling, oral communication, teaching English (ESL), community health, tent-making, mobilization, support raising, etc.

Missionary Training Schools are currently offered at our Atlanta location in January of 2010 and in Houston beginning in August of 2010. Current dates and prices can be found on the right side of this page.