Workshops

These workshops have been formulated as a practical step-by-step process that addresses the following topics. Each workshop includes three teaching sessions followed by practical application activities.
Workshops

How to Review Your Current Mission Program
Available on DVD with Manual
Topics covered:

  • Session One- Different Types of Ministries
  • Session Two - Categories of Ministries
  • Session Three - The Two Mandates: Cultural & Evangelistic

This is a Church Empowerment workshop and can be self-taught. Alternatively Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.


How to Build a Mission Leadership Team
Available on DVD with Manual
Topics covered:

  • Session One - Identity of a Mission Leadership Team
  • Session Two - Building Your Mission Leadership Team
  • Session Three - Working as a Mission Leadership Team

This is a Church Empowerment workshop and can be self-taught. Alternatively Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.


How to Mobilize a Church Ministry
Available on DVD with Manual
Topics covered:

  • Session One - Why do You Mobilize a Church Ministry?
  • Session Two - Who do You Mobilize in the Church?
  • Session Three - How do You Mobilize a Church Ministry?

This is a Church Empowerment workshop and can be self-taught. Alternatively Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.


How to Structure the Church
Available on DVD with Manual
Topics covered:

  • Session One - Why do You Need to Structure the Church?
  • Session Two - What do You Need in the Church Structure?
  • Session Three - How Does the Church Structure Work?

This is a Church Empowerment workshop and can be self-taught. Alternatively Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.


Seminars & Courses

These seminars and courses have been designed to address certain paradigms in the church. They include Biblical teaching combined with practical examples of how the concepts outwork in the life of a church.

An Introduction to Church-Centered Mission
1/2 day Seminar - Available on DVD with Manual
Topics covered:

  • Church-Centered Mission: An Introduction
  • Traditional Missions Vs Church-Centered Mission
  • Transitioning to Church-Centered Mission

This is a Church Empowerment seminiar and can be self-taught. Alternatively Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.

Church Centered Mission

Developing a Missional Church
1/2 day Seminar - Available in Manual Only
Topics covered:

  • God's Missional Plan
  • God's Missional People
  • God's Missional Church

This is a Church Empowerment seminiar. Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.
Developing A Missional Church

Church Empowerment Seminar
1/2 day Seminar - Available in Manual Only
Topics covered:

  • What is the Church? – Exod. 12:3-14
  • Building the Church – Matt. 16:15-18
  • Equipping the Church – Eph. 4:11-12
  • Mobilizing the Church – Neh. Chap. 2 & 3

This is a Church Empowerment seminiar. Strategic Missions can arrange a presenter to go through this course with your church or church mission leadership.

  

Kairos Course (http//www.kairoscourse.org)

The Kairos Course, also known as the Condensed World Mission Course is a dynamic course to help discover what God is doing around the world, in fulfillment of His global purpose. It is designed to educate and mobilize Christians and local churches into strategic, 21st century, world Christian mission.

Topics Covered:

  • God’s Purpose and Plan
  • Israel, the Covenant People
  • The Messiah, The Message & The Messenger
  • Expansion of the World Christian Movement
  • Mission Strategy
  • The Task Remaining
  • Cross-Cultural Considerations
  • World Christian Teamwork

The Kairos Course

Strategic Design Program Kits - DVDs/Audio CDs/Manual

The Strategic Design Program (SDP) includes seven teaching sessions on the following sections. However, the key to the program are the seven Diagnostics that relate to each area.

The Strategic Design Program is a tool that will help the leaders of the church develop their Church-Centered Mission Program.

  • Vision: Discovering God’s Identity and Mission Vision for Your Church
  • Organization: Create a Structure for Church-Centered Mission
  • Strategic Plan: Develop Field Productivity
  • Mobilization: Give Your Church to the World
  • Partnership: Build Alliances to Fulfill the Mission
Church Centered Mission Strategic Design Program

Cat & Dog Theology (http://www.catndogtheology.com)

Topics Covered:

  • Introducing Cat & Dog Theology
    (People-Centered VS God-Centered)
  • The Eight Dangers of Cat Theology!
  • The Story of the Bible
  • Discovering the Other Half of Your Bible
  • What Do I Do Now?

Cat & Dog Theology

Natural Church Development (http://www.ncd-international.org)

Topics Covered:

  • Empowering Leadership
  • Gift-Based Ministry
  • Passionate Spirituality
  • Effective Structures
  • Inspiring Worship Services
  • Holistic Small Groups
  • Need-Oriented Evangelism
  • Loving Relationships
Natural Church Development

Worldwide Perspectives (http://www.perspectives.org.nz)

Topics Covered:

  • Discovering God’s Plan
  • Blessing, Prosperity, Consequences
  • Called to Co-Mission
  • God’s Determined Purpose
  • Modern Eras of Expansion
  • Strategic Decisions
  • The Quest of Love
  • To Reach All Peoples
  • Evangelism, Church Planting and Multiplication
  • Development and The Good News
  • The Challenge of Culture
  • Stranger or Belonger?
  • Unlocking Communication
  • The Church and It’s Context
  • World Christian Partnerships
Perspectives World Mission Course

Mission Related Web Sites

initiative360 formerly Caleb Project & ACMC http://www.acmcnetwork.com
initiative360 aims to help believers and their churches explore, discover, and activate their roles in God's mission, whether in local neighborhoods or around the world.

U.S. Center for World Mission http://www.uscwm.org/
The U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM) is a community dedicated to making the glory of God fully known, and to bringing all the people groups on the earth to worship and obey God (as revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ). The USCWM produces and publishes resources to motivate and equip Christ's body to join Him in His Biblical purpose to "bless all the families of the earth" (Genesis 12:1-3).

Operation World http://www.gmi.org/ow/
The primary purpose of Operation World is prayer for the spread of the gospel throughout the nations.

Resources

Church Mission Partnerships
With the wide range of possible mission partnerships and projects that a church could potentially be involved with how should the church mission leadership decide what to do? This paper called Church Mission Partnership is an attempt to give one approach that could be taken. You can download it here and also an Excel worksheet from here.