Course requirements include written reports, reading course texts and related literature, language and culture elicitation and filing, and memorization of practical expressions.

Motivation for Missions

(5 hrs.) What is God doing? How can you fit into His plans? Finding direction and His will for your life becomes clearer as you focus on His eternal purposes.

Evangelism & Discipleship

Do you know how to effectively communicate the Gospel with an animist? You’ll hear how missionaries present the Gospel in an indigenous church planting setting using a chronological approach.

Cross-Cultural Communication

(32 hrs.) Convinced you can’t learn a foreign language? You’ll surprise yourself. Classroom instruction followed by immediate application in the village provides an ideal learning environment. This includes direct language and culture gathering experience.

Mission Methods

(9 hrs.) Church planting cross-culturally is a huge job! Careful planning is required. You’ll be shown the methods missionaries use today to keep on track. Language-learning goals, surveys, strategy statements, church planting models, linguistics, literacy, Bible translation and more are covered.

Support Ministry

(9 hrs.) Church-planting cross-culturally is a huge job! Careful planning is required. You’ll be shown the methods missionaries use today to keep on track. Language-learning goals, surveys, strategy statements, church-planting models, linguistics, literacy, Bible translation and more are covered.

Finances in Missions

(2 hrs.) Is it possible to stay out of debt and get an education? What does it cost to live as a missionary? This is your opportunity to receive biblically based, practical advice from experienced missionaries.

Communicating Missions

(6 hrs.) Missionaries are an extension of the local church. In order to build effective partnerships with churches and individuals you must first learn how to communicate well.

Critical Issues in Missions

(6 hrs.) Are the unreached really lost? What is the missionary call? What roles are there for women or singles in missions? These and other frequently asked questions are discussed.

Missionary Training

(3 hrs.) What options are available to you? What are mission agencies looking for in a missionary candidate?

Indigenous Side Trip

Toward the end of the course, you’ll go to another remote location where a church has been planted. You’ll observe cultural events, practice culture and language acquisition skills, and worship with indigenous believers.

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As you interact with down-to-earth missionaries, you’ll get a snapshot of how God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Except for the indigenous language speakers-teachers, all teaching personnel are members of Ethnos360 or their global partners. These instructors have completed the full course of missionary preparation required by the mission (typically four years) in addition to university and graduate level degrees in some cases, as well as extensive first-hand experience in the topics they cover. Resident Ethnos360 personnel in PNG and Brazil are the primary teaching staff, addressing topics pertaining to areas of ministry in which they specialize, including church planters, pilots, accountants, IT professionals, medical professionals, teachers, and Bible translators.