The International Mission Board (IMB) will host Missions College on Jan. 4–7, 2023, near Richmond, Virginia.

The Missions College is a training event for pastors, church leaders, mission trip participants and church members engaged in missions, or people who are interested in partnering with IMB teams.

Missions College centres around 11-hour learning tracks led by missionaries with extensive field experience.

Participants will choose one of the following tracks:

• Foundations for Mission
• Missions Scope
• Cross-Cultural Evangelism and Discipleship
• Displaced Peoples
• Using Oral Methods for Discipleship and Leadership Development
• Global Cities
• Strategy Coaching (for mission team leaders involved in church planting)

One of Missions College’s most popular tracks is Cross-Cultural Evangelism and Discipleship.

“The people we are trying to reach with the gospel have radically different perspectives on the world,” IMB noted in a description of the track. “Learn about worldview differences and the danger of syncretism to help you evangelize cross-culturally. Practice gospel presentations that can be adapted to different people groups, and that you can teach to others.”

Also included at Missions College are breakout sessions and daily worship times led by keynote speakers.

Participants will choose three of the following 90-minute breakout sessions.

• The Sending Church
• Culturally Appropriate Gospel Presentations
• Introduction to Storying
• Partnering from the Backseat: Avoiding Dependency
• Short-term Trips
• Ethnodoxology
• Prayer Strategies
• Community Health Lessons for Short-term Trips
• Going to the Nations with IMB
• Next Generation Missions

Lloyd Rodgers, who serves as a trainer in the Americas said, “We are asking the Lord, by His grace, to use the powerful testimonies and deep experiences of our IMB field missionaries to teach and mentor Mission College participants, Our desire is to see God glorified by learning the skills needed to respond cross-culturally to lostness, the greatest problem in the world.”

The cost for the Missions College is $249 per person which includes training, materials, lodging for three nights and meals.

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