Schedule a live Introduction to Strategic Missions (ITSM) seminar to gain a streamlined process for greater impact in your missions efforts. ITSM is an interactive course presented by certified trainers with substantial cross-cultural experience. During this course, we will guide you on a journey through nine modules in a single seminar. However, the course may be divided into two separate sessions – Missions Foundations (five modules) and Missions Tools (four modules). By the end of the conference, you will burn with passion for executing the Great Commission mandates as well as becoming familiar with unreached people groups and develop a plan and strategy to reach them with the gospel of Jesus!
The nine modules in the ITSM course:
Missions Foundations Curriculum:
- Module 1 – God’s Master Plan
- Align our vision and methods with God’s purpose, vision, strategy, and methods.
- Module 2 – The Mission
- Understand God’s passion to finish His mission.
- Thoroughly understand the Biblical foundations for strategic missions.
- Module 3 – The State of the World Missions
- Recognize current state of God’s mission worldwide.
- Identify the barriers and solutions for reaching UPGs.
- Understand the good and bad news associated with progress in strategic missions.
- Module 4 – Personalizing the Great Commission
- Understand the steps necessary to personalize the Great Commission and become an Acts 1:8 Christian.
- Understand the goals and attributes of a church mobilized for strategic missions to UPGs.
- Discover eight best practices of churches engaged in missions.
- Identify the components of a Healthy Church.
- Module 5 – Unreached People Group Adoption
- Learn a step-by-step process for adopting and engaging with unreached people groups to establish a church planting movement among them.
- Understand the seven component steps required to accomplish a fruitful UPG Adoption.
- Know how to organize and deploy a UPG Adoption Team.
Missions Tools Curriculum:
- Module 6 – Introducing Church Planting Movements
- Review the most revolutionary model of strategic missions in the world today – church planting movements (CPMs).
- Discuss the 10 universal elements found in all CPMs.
- Discover methods for rapid, even exponential, church planting.
- Module 7 – Networking Through Partnerships
- A biblical study about the importance of partnering with God and each other – casting a vision for churches to work with others to complete the Great Commission.
- Provide practical “how to” information guiding leaders into forming working partnerships that focus on conducting local outreach activities with other churches and/or sending missionaries to specific UPGs.
- Module 8 – Goers and Senders
- Provide Scripture-based information and guidance to empower local churches to raise up both “Goers” (missionaries) and “Senders” (those who stand behind and assist those who go).
- Module 9 – Faith Promise Giving: The Engine for Strategic Missions
- Deliver inspiration and guidance on how to train your people to hear from God so they might become channels of God’s financial provision for local outreach activities and/or strategic missions to UPGs.
- Attendees should have a thorough knowledge and understanding of fundamental Biblical tithes and offerings principles (a separate seminar offering).
What you will gain from attending the live seminar:
- Understand the Great Commission defined for today’s environment.
- Develop a missions vision for Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the Ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8).
- Gain momentum as you expand your commitment to the Great Commission and learn how to strategically engage Unreached People Groups (UPGs).
- Learn how to spread the vision to your church or organization.
- Discuss the nuts and bolts of successful missionary sending.
- Realize how to raise sufficient financing for the work of missions.
- Connect to the work by sponsoring an unreached people group adoption.
- Join strategy sessions to apply these principles to your organization.
- Become a vital part of harvest in your local community and among the unreached in the world.
The ITSM Seminar has been taught all around the world and can be customized to fit your organization’s culture and schedule. Join the thousands who have already benefited from this seminar. The sound principles taught in this course will benefit your church or organization in local outreach activities as well as in an international context. Time allotment: 2-3 days (depending on interpretation requirements)
NOTE: The curriculum can be split into two separate sessions.
NOTE: The curriculum also can be presented via Zoom or other conferencing tool, but this is difficult if reliable high speed internet is not available.