The following mission-related seminars cover a wide range of purposes and include the following target audiences:

CROSSING CULTURES (Focus: Weekend Training for Local Cross-Cultural Outreach)
Crossing Cultures is an eye-opening weekend workship that provides a cross-cultural experience in your city. The workshop teaches some basics about missions and a lot about interacting with our neighbors from other cultures. This opportunity will encourage Christians to step out of their comfort zones and into local ethnic communities where they can begin lasting relationships. Come learn how to initiate conversations, ask questions, and listen to stories as you meet immigrants in shops, markets, parks, and restaurants.

HEART OF GOD SEMINAR (Focus: A Three-Hour Mission Seminar for Teens & Adults)
Discover the unifying theme woven into Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, unveiling the very heart of God in a fresh, dynamic way. As God’s global activity, past and present, unfolds before you, you won’t be able help but get excited about His plan for your life! This three-hour seminar is relevant to every member of the Church, making missions a passionate priority for each follower of Jesus. For more information, contact Heart of God Ministries at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

INSIDE OUT WEEKEND (Focus: Weekend Introduction-to-Mission Seminar for Teens & Adults)
Three days can transform your church’s understanding of its unique design (the gifts and abilities of your members) and of God’s desire to use your congregation for Kingdom impact.

NVISION (Focus: A One-Day Mini Perspectives Course for Teens & Adults)
This fast-paced, multi-media world missions seminar takes the 150-hour Perspectives course and boils it down into one powerful day to ignite vision and passion for reaching the world for Jesus Christ. Excellent for your missions conference, or if you want to bring together a group of campus ministries, a group of churches, the entire staff of a large church or ministry, or as a prerequisite/training time for your short-term missionaries.

EMMAUS ROAD INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS (Focus: Miscellaneous Seminars for Senders, Goers, Intercessors and Global Outreach Teams)
EMI provides a number of excellent training opportunities (live or on audio and video) for local churches and missionary candidates, including: Serving as Senders, Prepare for Battle, For Those Who Go, and Nothing Good Just Happens. For more details write: Emmaus Road, International, 7150 Tanner Court, San Diego, CA 92111 Tel/Fax: 619-292-7020 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

THE JOURNEY DEEPENS (Focus: Weekend Retreat for Prospective Missionary Candidates)
Has God been stirring you to consider doing more in missions? I invite you to come with me to a weekend retreat with 50 prospective missionaries and five missionary mentors who come together for worship, prayer and small group discussions. This weekend will deepen our relationship with Jesus and help us explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God's fit, and connect with mission agencies. Lots of answers on how someone could become a missionary in another culture. All the details are online www.TheJourneyDeepens.com/retreats.asp .

DESIGN YOUR IMPACT by DualReach (Focus: Global Outreach Team Training)
The Design Your Impact Workshop is a five-hour, fast-paced, interactive program that helps a local church discover its unique DNA and determine a strategic focus that will maximize its resources for global/local impact. The workshop employs a variety of media and an interactive learning style to help church leaders customize a strategic missions focus based on who they are as a local body of believers.

THE CHURCH 360 by Larry Walker, ACMC (Focus: Global Outreach Team training on Becoming a Missional Church)
Larry Walker, former missionary, mission pastor and mission mobilizer provides a powerful seminar that helps every church leader, lay or staff, to develop best practices for the missional church. The model presented is radically biblical, focused on global realities, relevant to 21st century America and sensitive to the unique makeup of each church, inspiring each individual to become a change agent in their own sphere of influence. It is stimulating, challenging and practical. Contact Larry at: (760) 412-2042 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

WORKSHOPS by David Mays (Focus: Global Outreach Team Training)
(Available for churches in KY, IL, IN, MI, MO, OH, WI)
David has helped hundreds of churches to greater missions commitment and effectiveness through his workshops, seminars, conferences, consultations, articles and manuals. He has a keen understanding of how to help churches relate missions to contemporary culture. His passionate, informal and sometimes humorous style makes him an effective speaker and consultant. See David's bio. Contact David at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Workshops Titles:
» Discovering God’s Global Vision for Your Church
» Becoming a World Changing Church
» Mission Leadership Challenges in Today’s Church
» How to Operate an Effective Missions Leadership Team
» How to Get Your Congregation Involved in Missions

WISDOM FOR THE WINDOW: Practical Training for Prayer Journeyers
Steve Hawthorne presents a bold Biblical vision and practical nitty-gritty "how to's" drawn from the experiences of hundreds of prayer journeyers. This four-hour video format training tool is taken from some training sessions offered by Steve Hawthorne in 1995 in Colorado Springs. (It has been recommended that users preview & time the sessions that they desire to feature rather than utilizing the entire four hours). Contact: Waymakers at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

OPEN FOR BUSINESS (UBANA CONFERENCE) SEMINARS (Focus: A pot-pourri of Business As Mission training on MP3 files)
Five days of seminar sessions covering a vast range of issues, inspiration, opportunities and ideas on the topic of Business As Mission. Free MP3 downloads make it simple for you to create your own seminar for marketplace leaders in your church. Here's another idea ... create a page for BAM on your church web site and provide these same lessons as weekly links.


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