Missionary Training
Prepare for missionary work with instructors who have been where you are and know what you need to be successful
About the Training
Studies have shown that high retention mission agencies require three semesters of formal missiological training. The Ephesiology Missionary Training program takes the best of the classroom, combined with case studies, along with instructors who have lived and worked on the mission field to provide academically rigorous and missiologically sound training so that you will be more likely to succeed on the field once you deploy. Our training:
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Fills a gap between equipping all the saints for ministry and the cost of graduate education.
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Provides expert content that is both engaging and academic.
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Focuses on self-paced learning that is essential for the success of those desiring to effectively engage culture with the gospel.
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Is objectively evangelical, rigorously academic, and theologically dispassionate.
Training Program
Our missionary training helps to develop competencies in Bible, missiology, world religions, and cultural studies while developing skills in orality, contextualization, and cross-cultural leadership.
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Missionary Training
Biblical Foundation of Movements
Are you a movement thinker passionate about seeing the gospel spread in your community and world? Our movement bundle provides you the biblical foundations to successfully think through what a movement in the 21st century might look like.
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Missionary Training
Cross-Cultural Engagement
7 Courses
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Missionary Training, Church Planter Training
Leadership Development
4 Courses
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Missionary Training
The World's Religions
6 Courses
Instructors
Your lead instructors bring years practical cross-cultural experience to the classroom while not compromising on academic quality.
Professor of Missiological Theology
Michael T. Cooper
Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: The Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.
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Professor of Missiology
Gary Fujino
Dr. Fujino earned his PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He was an urban church planter in Tokyo for nearly 20 years and is the co-editor of Reaching the City: Reflections on Urban Mission for the Twenty-First Century. He has trained church planters in Japan, Brasil, Peru, and the United States.
Associate Professor of World Religions
Amit Bhatia
Dr. Bhatia earn a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of Engaging Muslims & Islam: Lessons for 21st-Century American Evangelicals (2017). Amit A. Bhatia, (PhD, Intercultural Studies) has spent more than 20 years bridging the gap between academia and the church. Throughout seminary he served as a pastor in several different multi-ethnic congregations, then as Director of Outreach at his church in Lincolnshire, IL. As a Christian of Hindu background, Amit consistently engages people from other faiths with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Fully committed to training Christians for ministry, Amit currently specializes in courses on missions, world religions and culture.
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