Missionary Academy Pioneers
Course Cost
Individual: £585
Couple: £785
*Excluding Residential Costs
This Course starts in September 2022.
Application Deadline 22nd August 2022
Connecting
The Missionary Academy runs in partnership with Seedbed. This course begins with a residential event (Thursday – Sunday) in Warrington. This provides an integral opportunity to meet other students who are undertaking a similar journey towards pioneering in contexts. The course involves a strong emphasis upon personal discipleship; therefore, you will journey together through the compulsory training modules with other Missionary Academy students and create relationships that will help to support and sustain you overseas. Our aim is to help you connect in these three ways: with God, with one another and with the mission of God.
Content
This extensive learning experience features on-going teaching and mentoring from the Elim Missions team and other practitioners, alongside short-term overseas opportunities and resources to help you study at home. The Missionary Academy has 22 online modules, 15 of which need to be completed prior to relocating overseas and can be done in a time frame to suit you.
Training covers a diverse range of topics needed to thrive as a long-term missionary:
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Adaptive leadership
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Dynamic discipleship
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Effective evangelism
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Cross-cultural mission
Coaching
In partnership with Seedbed, students will join weekly online training calls (Thursday evenings). Each student will receive coaching from the International Missions Director, UK Missions Training Coordinator, Seedbed leadership team and, as appropriate to your needs, Elim approved missions practitioners.
Pioneer Missionaries will need to have proven experience of pioneering ministry in the UK, prior to joining the Missionary Academy. Alternatively, if you sense the call to pioneer but don't have experience, it will be important that you have the permission of your sending church to pioneer a missional ministry locally (preferably in a cross-cultural context) in order to gain pre-field experience. You will be coached along the journey so as to help you fulfil all that God has called you to be and do.