We believe training is the key to biblical and faithful missionary service. In order to be disciple makers, we must be discipled. We look to Jesus’s example of discipleship: life-on-life formation that happens in community. This is why we move training out of the lecture hall into the real world.
Missions training is more than just a transfer of information. It is the knowledge and skills that transform our character that affects our patterns of behavior. We like to think of this in terms of knowing, being, and doing. What we know changes who we are, which is evident in what we do.
Whether we’re training people to plant churches or to participate in accountability reports, we organize our efforts around knowing, being, and doing. It turns out, this is how disciples are made—we read God’s Word, which informs our thoughts. Right thinking transforms who we are on the inside, which then leads us to act more like Jesus (and less like our sinful selves!). This pattern applies to training God’s people for mission.
We approach missions training from three major categories: training for churches, training for missionaries, and training new disciples in other places to make disciples.
