What you'll learn

The Equipping course is more than just a class that will download information to you — it's a community that will help you grow and thrive before and after you arrive at your new location.

  • Learn principles of cross-cultural communication, including how shame, fear, and guilt-based cultures affect the understanding and presentation of the gospel.

  • Identify characteristics of ineffective and effective teams, and how to organize, communicate, and cooperate with others toward a shared goal.

  • Discover aspects of your own personality, beliefs, and worldview in order to more effectively share the gospel at a true heart level.

Course curriculum

    1. Equipping Cover

    2. Equipping Orientation Video (watch before Monday)

    1. 4 Week Overview

    1. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for Equipping - Week 1

    2. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for HOS - Week 1

    3. Guidelines for Life Mapping Activity

    4. Due Tuesday: Memorize 2 Corinthians 4:1-3 (HOS)

    5. Due Wednesday: Read "Ugly Americans or Ambassadors of Christ" (Ethnocentrism)

    6. Due Wednesday: Review "Cross-Cultural Connections" (Views of Culture)

    7. Due Wednesday: Read "HOS Foundational Concepts"

    8. Due Thursday: Fruit to Root (HOS)

    9. Due Thursday: Read "Do Missionaries Destroy Cultures?" (Views of Culture)

    10. Due Thursday: Read "Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism "

    11. Due Thursday: Review "Cross-Cultural Connections" (Views of Culture)

    12. Watch before Friday: Participant Observation

    13. Due Friday: Value Cards

    14. Due Friday: Complete "Personal View of Culture" Reflection Paper (Views of Culture)

    15. Due Friday: Read "Know Your Own Culture: A Neglected Tool for Cross-Cultural Ministry" (Tools for Cultural Awareness)

    16. Due Friday: Review "Cross-Cultural Connections"

    17. Due Friday: Complete the "Proud Hearts and Humble Hearts" worksheet

    18. Weekend Assignment: Participant Observations

    1. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for Equipping - Week 2

    2. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for HOS - Week 2

    3. Due Monday: Report participant observation 1st weekend

    4. Due Monday: Complete the Book of Ephesians Assignment (Spiritual Warfare)

    5. Due Monday: One Question Survey

    6. Due Monday: Read "My Father’s Shirt" (Righteousness of God — HOS)

    7. Due Tuesday: Memorize 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 (HOS)

    8. Due Wednesday: "Spiritual Warfare" Reflection Paper (Spiritual Warfare)

    9. Watch before Wednesday

    10. Due Wednesday: Review "The 3D Gospel" Pages 9-74 (Social Context)

    11. Due Wednesday: Read "The Holiness of God" (HOS)

    12. Due Thursday: Complete the "What is Truth" Exercise

    13. Due Thursday: Read these articles, "Are Tattoos Worse than Adultery?"...

    14. Tips for your weekend worship visits

    15. Due Friday: Ethnographic questions

    1. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for Equipping - Week 3

    2. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for HOS - Week 3

    3. Due Monday: Worship Service Survey

    4. Due Monday: Complete "Worship Service" Reflection Paper (Tools for Cultural Awareness — Ethnography)

    5. Due Monday: Complete "International Conversations" Reflection Paper (Tools for Cultural Awareness — Ethnography)

    6. Due Monday: Read "The W-Spectrum" (Contextualization)

    7. Due Monday: Read "Dignity & Depravity: The Problem with Wounds" (Self-Reliance — HOS)

    8. Due Monday: Complete "Sons, Daughters, or Orphans" Exercise (Self-Reliance — HOS)

    9. Due Tuesday: Memorize 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 (HOS)

    10. Due Tuesday: Read "Preparing Missionary Couples for Cultural Stress" (Moveable Missionaries) (Optional for singles)

    11. Due Wednesday: Read "Understanding Our Adoption" (Acceptability — HOS)

    12. Due Wednesday: Read Articles-- for everyone (Family Matters)

    13. Due Wednesday: Read Article-- only for those with children (Family Matters)

    14. Due Thursday: Read "Effective Followership - The Overlooked Role" (Team Dynamics)

    15. Due Thursday: Read "The Heart of Addiction" (Self-Satisfaction — HOS)

    16. Due Friday: Read "Idolatry: Its Nature and Effects" (Idolatry — HOS)

    17. Due Friday: Complete "The Idolatry Worksheet" (Idolatry — HOS)

    1. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for Equipping - Week 4

    2. Before Monday: Class Notes Needed for HOS - Week 4

    3. Due Monday: Read "Repentence - Wordly Sorrow vs Godly Sorrow" (Repentance — HOS)

    4. Due Tuesday: Memorize 2 Corinthians 4:10-12 (HOS)

    5. Due Thursday: Review "Cross-Cultural Connections" (Culture Stress & Expectations)

    6. Due Thursday: Read "Culture Shock!" (Culture Stress & Expectations)

    7. Due Thursday: Review "Cross-Cultural Connections" (Re-Entry)

About this course

  • Free
  • 63 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content