Training Resources

Facilitating Dialogue between the Global North and Global South

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

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

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

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

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!

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"

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

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

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

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

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 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…

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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

Why and How Jews for Jesus Moved Our New Staff Training Online

Thursday | 3:45 PM | Josh Sofaer, Senior Advisor, Jews for Jesus ...
Learned Helplessness

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

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

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?

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 ...
Training up Amazing Parents of Third Culture Kids

Training up Amazing Parents of Third Culture Kids

Friday, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Lauren Wells ...
Training HERE to Reach the Unreached Out There

Training HERE to Reach the Unreached Out There

Friday, 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Kevin King ...
Shining Light on the Lies

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 ...
Preparing and Equipping Singles and Marrieds to Work Well Together in Their Cross-Cultural Ministry Teams

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

OnMission 2019 Von Golder

Von Golder Media and Training Frontiers www.frontiers.org Audio and Video ...
OnMission 2019 Dick Brogden

OnMission 2019 Dick Brogden

Dick Brogden Training of First-Term Missionaries Live|Dead www.livedead.org Transcript Discussion Questions Audio and Video ...