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Morning Seminar – March 10, 2008

Morning Seminar – March 10, 2008. Periodical Review – Missiology , January 2008. Integral Training Today for Cross-Cultural Mission. Darrell L. Whiteman. A Survey on Missionary Training. Survey of 60 Protestant North American sending agencies. -average period of pre-field mission training:.

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Morning Seminar – March 10, 2008

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  1. Morning Seminar – March 10, 2008 Periodical Review – Missiology, January 2008

  2. Integral Training Today for Cross-Cultural Mission Darrell L. Whiteman

  3. A Survey on Missionary Training Survey of 60 Protestant North American sending agencies -average period of pre-field mission training: 25 days -average length of service of career missionaries: 7 years

  4. The Purpose of Cross-Cultural Training for Mission Description of a Trained Missionary “The area of character development continually emerged as the most important aspect for successful missionary training.”

  5. The Importance of Integrated Training 3 areas of focus: Cross-cultural knowledge (knowing) Character formation (being) Interpersonal ministry skills (doing)

  6. Question: How does the USCWM Training Division/WCIU rate when it comes to the 3 foci of integrated training? Cross-cultural knowledge (knowing) Character formation (being) Interpersonal ministry skills (doing)

  7. Missionary Training in the Two-Thirds World “There is considerable research on different learning styles in different cultures, and these must be taken into consideration if training for cross-cultural mission in the Two-Thirds World is going to have its best impact.”

  8. Question: How does Perspectives and the WCF program take into consideration the different learning styles of other cultures?

  9. The Challenge of Continuing Education and Training “Without an approach to continuous learning from the culture, it would be possible to spend 25 years in a culture but essentially repeat the first year 25 times.”

  10. Question: What percentage of our students are taking our programs as part of their continuing education and what percentage do it as part of pre-field training?

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