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 Talk
with your local pastor, college chaplain or a career guidance counselor
to obtain ideas for education and practical training. Your preparation
depends a lot on what you want to do. Some mission work requires
specialized skills, other work mostly needs quality experience in
leading people to Jesus. If you are considering going with a particular
agency, call them to find out what they are specifically looking
for. Talk with missionaries that have served in your area of interest
to see what type of training they think is helpful.
Prepare
Through Your Local Church
Obtain basic witnessing skills: Ask your pastor, elder or
personal ministry skills leader for opportunities to train in witnessing
and giving Bible studies.
Watch them: Team up with other church members and watch video
witness training courses. Then go out together. Contact PlusLine at 1-800-SDA-PLUS
or www.plusline.org
for video training courses.
Cross-cultural Missions: Attend the Summer Institute of
World Missions. Phone: (616) 471-2522 or iwm@andrews.edu.
Church Planting: Summer Institute of Frontier Missions through
Adventist Frontier Missions. 1-800-YES-4AFM or www.afmonline.org.
Muslim Ministry: contact Newbold College, England, crosado@newbold.ac.uk
or Jerald Whitehouse, Global Center for Adventist Muslim Relations,
e-mail 102555.1163@compuserve.com
or (909) 824-4563.
A helpful book that covers the steps is Send Me! Your Journey
to the Nations by Steve Hoke & Bill Taylor.
Medical ministry, combined with personal and literature evangelism:
Visit Outpost Centers, Inc.'s website at www.tagnet/outpostcenters.org.
There you will find Black Hills Health & Education Center, Eden
Valley, Friendship Mission Inc., Living Springs Retreat &
Overseas Mission, Uchee Pines Institute, Wildwood Lifestyle
Center & Hospital, Weimar
Institute and others.
To gain the skills for church planting overseas, by church planting
in your own country: Contact Church Planting Center at www.plantthefuture.org
or 1-877-30-PLANT.
Get involved with people
of other cultural backgrounds. Visit an ethnic restaurant. Join
a Japanese church. Volunteer at a social service organization that
helps immigrants.
Schools
& Seminars
Degree Programs: Seventh-day Adventist colleges check www.sda.net
or call your pastor for a phone number. Andrews
University has an excellent degree program.
Literature evangelism: Ask about Youth Rush or Youth Challenge
through Pacific Press Publishing Association (208) 465-2500 or Review and
Herald (301) 791-7000.
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