Training Resources
Facilitating Dialogue between the Global North and Global South
By Sheryl Takagi Silzer | Global mission teams are becoming more and more multicultural. This presents challenges particularly to the ...
Navigating Between Worlds
By David R. Dunaetz | Understanding acculturation strategies helps missionaries know what they personally experience and what members of a ...
Strengthening the Indigenous Church
By Trudy Seng, Meiry Yakawa, and Vera Bergson | In the heart of South America, the Ammi Training Center brings ...
Navigating Uncharted Territories
By Chondeug Joseph Jang | In mission history with First Nations in Canada, relationships were broken and Christianity often meant ...
Training for Polycentric Mission
By Mark Hedinger and Kate Wiseman | Polycentric mission brings the joy of multiplied expansion, and at the same time, ...
Language Learning in the 21st Century: Press for Success!
The role of language learning in effective global missions in the 21st century remains an overlooked yet monumental piece of ...
How and Why I Built My Online Training Platform — “The Mission Academy”
Whether you've led many mission trips or just one,"The Missions Academy" provides students engaging online access to content that prepares ...
The Cost of Caring: Service Among Survivors of Trauma
Trauma is the lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event. Experiencing a traumatic event can ...
Preparing Today’s Missionaries for Practical Peacemaking
Conflict between committed, passionate global workers is common, and unresolved conflicts threaten team dynamics, fruitful ministry, and field longevity ...
Developing Best Training Practices for Retention: What Current Attrition Research
New data is available on why missionaries leave the field and return home. How do we put it into practice ...
Funnels and Loops: How Mass Communication is Accelerating Movements
By Josiah Palusky | Innovative strategies are linking new and existing methods of evangelism and discipleship in ways not previously explored ...
What Is the Minimum Training Needed to Be Effective?
What defines effective? Obviously that they have the money needed. But it ALSO includes a healthy perspective of inviting partners ...
I won’t come down…
This is part one of a two part article series. This first article shares the support raisers experience. The second ...
What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Development Professional
I am not so dissimilar to other fundraising professionals of my baby boomer generation. Most of us fell into our ...
Seeing Ministry Partners as People – or Targets?
A few years ago, a prayer formed in my head and heart, ”Lord Jesus, help me see the person, not ...
How We Train Our People for Ministry Partnership Matters
As we seek to help our new and veteran ministry workers become and remain spiritually healthy, vision-driven, and fully funded, ...
MPD and Non-MPD Staff: A Clear Call and United Front
When talking about support raising, I try whenever possible to stay away from the words “fundraising” and “donor“when describing support ...
What Are You Looking for in a Coach?
When I started support raising, I had no clue what I was doing. I knew that God was calling me ...
It’s All About Perspective
When talking about support raising, I try whenever possible to stay away from the words “fundraising” and “donor“when describing support ...
INVITING is UNITING: Partnership with the Local Church
When I was a child and my parents would go away on a trip, I was always a bit anxious ...
Learning that Connects
As children, we are expected to learn. Our parents, teachers, and coaches dictate the things we need to know, often ...
Five Essential Anchors for MPD
My father was a ship fitter at the US’s first Naval Shipyard, that included everything for the fabrication and repairs ...
How Getting to Full Support Changed Me as a Coach
It is stated in three simple words – get fully funded. You are a leader, a coach, a trainer, and, ...
New Member Benefit: Missio Nexus Bible Certificate Program
Missio Nexus has partnered with BibleMesh to create a new certificate program designed to meet the requirements for theological preparation ...
Support Raising and the Art of Storytelling
Support Raising for ethnic minorities usually conjures up words like shame and honor. But no longer are these terms relegated ...
Ethnic Minority Support Raising is an Untapped Goldmine for Your MPD!
Support Raising for ethnic minorities usually conjures up words like shame and honor. But no longer are these terms relegated ...
Design Thinking for Training and Development: Creating Learning Journeys That Get Results
This is a practical how-to manual for applying design thinking to training programs. Design thinking, typically used in product development, ...
Why and How Jews for Jesus Moved Our New Staff Training Online
Thursday | 3:45 PM | Josh Sofaer, Senior Advisor, Jews for Jesus ...
Build Your Own E-Learning Workshop or Conference. Real Relationships Can Happen!
Thursday | 1:45 PM | Amy Young ...
Design and Implement Capacity-Building Training for Your Gen Z Staff
Wednesday | 3:45 PM | James Aaron Brown ...
Learned Helplessness
Dread. That’s what I felt before my weekly check-in as an MPD coach with this staff. The litany of excuses, ...
The Price of Effectiveness: What Organizational Change Actually Costs
In 1919, Texas Baptists began a ministry for college students. Our first Baptist Student Ministries (BSM) was planted at Texas ...
5 Things to Look for in an MPD Coach
In 1 Corinthians 11:1 Paul says, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ (NIV).” It is interesting ...
Wanna Go For a Sprint?
An MPD Sprint is a 30-45 day period in which full-time staff spend part-time (20 hours a week) in a ...
Build Your Own E-Learning Workshop or Conference. Real Relationships Can Happen!
Thursday, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Amy Young ...
Shining Light on the Lies
If you are doing God’s work, the devil will try to get you to not do it, using whatever tactics ...
Missionary Training That Works – Lessons From the African-American Church
Saturday, 9:30 - 10:45 AM | Ron & Star Nelson ...
What Training Do Missionaries Actually Want and Need? Are They Willing to Get It?
Friday, 1:30 - 2:45 PM | Richard Voegt ...
Missionary Training Best Practices – A Collective Project for Being Better and Doing Better
Friday, 8:30 - 9:45 AM | Dick Freed ...
Preparing and Equipping Singles and Marrieds to Work Well Together in Their Cross-Cultural Ministry Teams
Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM | Barry Danylak, Suzanne Grumelot & Catherine Thompson ...
OnMission 2019 Von Golder
Von Golder Media and Training Frontiers www.frontiers.org Audio and Video ...
OnMission 2019 Dick Brogden
Dick Brogden Training of First-Term Missionaries Live|Dead www.livedead.org Transcript Discussion Questions Audio and Video ...