Missionary Development with Ephesiology
Our Missionary Development Program is designed to provide both new and experienced missionaries with a holistic framework for engaging in effective ministry across diverse cultural contexts.
Our Missionary Development Program is designed to provide both new and experienced missionaries with a holistic framework for engaging in effective ministry across diverse cultural contexts. Through a carefully curated series of courses, this program offers the theological, missiological, and practical tools necessary to engage cultures, understand worldviews, and participate in movemental ecclesiology—equipping you to make a lasting impact.
Comprehensive missionary training that provides a well-rounded education in theology, missiology, and cultural engagement, preparing you for diverse mission fields.
Learn practical storytelling and narrative communication techniques essential for effective ministry in oral cultures, ensuring your message reaches non-literate communities.
Develop expertise in missional movement dynamics and adaptive church structures that foster disciple-making movements and sustainable church growth.
Benefit from ongoing mentorship and guidance from global experts with decades of international mission experience, offering practical insights tailored to your unique context.
Gain critical knowledge of world religions and worldview apologetics, equipping you to engage with cultural and religious differences respectfully and effectively.
This program equips missionaries with essential skills for cross-cultural ministry. Participants will learn movement dynamics, storytelling for oral cultures, worldview engagement, and church planting strategies. Taught by experienced global mission experts, the program provides practical training and ongoing mentorship to ensure long-term impact in diverse contexts.
If you think storytelling, or its elder brother orality, is just for tribal and peasant people, think again. “Nearly 80% of the world will not hear and understand our message when we communicate with literate ways and means.”
In Foundations for a Missiology of Movements, you will explore fundamental principles in the study of movements in preparation for building a framework for a missiology of movements.
Missiological Theology introduces the student to pivotal Christian doctrines as a missiological framework within which to engage the working intellectual assumptions of contemporary culture. In addition to investigating several models for Christian
Learn how to engage the culture around us by showing how a biblically informed worldview gives answer to five big questions.
Movemental Ecclesiology focuses on the movemental nature of the church with attention to the importance of cultural exegesis and adaptive strategies for ecclesial structures and leadership.
A survey of the modern religious movements throughout the world, including the major world religions. The student will be involved in directed research of the religions in selected areas of the world.
They bring their collective wisdom, having pioneered movements in diverse contexts such as Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Their expertise and mentorship ensure that you are not only equipped with academic knowledge but also the practical insights necessary to thrive in your unique mission context.
Completing the Missionary Development Program provides you with advance standing credit toward a graduate degree. Our graduate degrees are offered in partnership with Kairos University. Kairos University is a global collaborative that provides opportunities for students to build entirely customized educational journeys that are affordable, accessible, and accredited.
The Master of Arts is specifically designed for laypeople who desire to be better equipped to engage their peers in the workplace.
$300 / month
The Master of Divinity is a degree designed to equip those who sense God’s leading into the challenging ministry of starting new churches and revitalizing existing churches.
$300 / month
The Doctor of Ministry degree is designed to help you reflect critically about ministry and engage rigorously in theological and missiological dialogue in an advanced learning environment.
$300 / month