Exloring Life Eternal

One local believer has taken a major step in his discipleship this summer as he undertook an intensive training programme. He is very enthuiastic about all that he has learned. As he now returns to his homeland please pray for him to continue to grow in faith week by week without the challenge and support of intensive teaching and daily meetings with his fellow students. Pray that he would find wise ways to put into practise all that he has learned over the summer and would be able to encourage other local believers to take new steps in their faith walk.

Institute of Strategic Languages and Cultures (ISLC)
(formerly Russian Language Ministries)

Study @ the ISLC will give you a good head start in learning the needed language and culture. Their experienced staff is called by God to equip you with the language & cross-cultural skills you will need to be effective in ministry to Russian. Courses are tailored to your learning needs and offer an intensive and focused experience with, gradual effective immersion in the language, communicative learning methods & flexible duration for all programs. Their U.S. based courses are taught in an encouraging spiritual atmosphere with a focus on future ministry. Classes now forming for an 8 week summer course (June 5 - July 28) & a 16 week fall course (Aug. 28- Dec. 15).

GO TO:
http://www.strategiclanguages.org
Call toll-FREE in the USA: 1-800-799-7976
Outside the USA: 1-803-333-9119
Or Write to the: R L M office (at) juno(dot)com .

Patterson's interactive novel, "Come, Let Us Disciple the Nations", is now available as a free download. It tracks your learning in 20 skill areas while you choose options for a congregation that reproduces in its own community, in a nearby culture, in a distant land and in a hostile one.

The .zip file contains 25 MB = programme, text, pictures, sounds.

GO TO:
http://www.paul-timothy.net/dn/

Or write to:
G Patterson (at) cvi2(dot)org .

The story consists of actual events known to the author that occurred in various church-planting efforts around the globe.

ZWEMER -- What is currently taking place around the world as a
result of cartoons about Muhammad suggests we in the West need to focus
more on Muslims! This is the 10th Summer Institute in Islam, July 3-28,
2006 on the campus of Columbia International University in South
Carolina. In the four, one-week courses, the focus in on understanding
Islam, building healthy relationships with Muslims and training workers
to effectively present the gospel. With over 35 hours of class
instruction for each course, Zwemer's distinctive over other similar
programs is that it provides in-depth training for the Church's
greatest challenge in the 21st century. Material can be taken for
credit or as a seminar (non-credit).

Please follow the link to Zwemer:
http://www.ciu.edu/summerstudies

You can register on line or e-mail
muslimstudies(at)ciu (dot) edu
You may also call 1-800-777-2227, Ext. 3325.

INTENSIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INTERNSHIP IN NORTH AFRICA -- Live with a
Muslim family, study Arabic, and learn "how-to" study another culture
May 20 - June 3 in North Africa. The program is led by a professor with
20 years of experience in the region, and is an excellent way to
experience what it would be like to work long-term among Muslims.
Participants include potential missionaries, current missionaries who
want to improve their cross-cultural skills, and any who need a first-
hand experience with Muslims in order to increase their effectiveness
and missionary vision. The internship can be taken for academic credit
or noncredit and is sponsored by The Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies,
based at Columbia International University (CIU) in South Carolina.
Registration deadline is April 1. For more information please email
eurocourse(at)hotmail(dot)com

SHARPEN YOUR INTERPERSONAL SKILLS -- International Training Partners
offers Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Workshops in different
parts of the world. These five-day, highly interactive workshops focus
on biblical application of skills in relating to one another and to the
host people. A workshop hosted by International TEAM will be held in
Dubai, UAE April 22-27, 2006.

Go to http://www.itpartners.org
for details on all of the workshops and information on ITP.
If your mission is interested in sponsoring a SYIS workshop, contact Paul:
plere(at)itpartners(dot)org.

TRAINING: HEART OF GOD MINISTRIES
from: Audrey Colwell <acolwell@heartofgod.com>, Heart of God
Ministries (http://www.heartofgod.com)

Heart of God Ministries (HGM), in Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA is an
interdenominational missions agency focused on training and sending
teams for long-term ministry among the unreached – the two billion
people who currently have no access to the gospel.

TRAIN: Beautiful Feet Boot Camp is a five-month program that
offers missionary training for the whole person: physical, spiritual,
mental, and emotional. HGM also offers a year-long intensive
internship that includes Boot Camp training, discipleship, service
opportunities, and a short-term trip.

GO SHORT-TERM: HGM offers three-week exposure trips in the spring
for those who want to experience what life is really like for
the unreached.

GO LONG-TERM: Those who feel called to serve as missionaries
can train with and be sent by HGM for church-planting work among
people who’ve never heard of Jesus.

VOLUNTEER: You can be a part of what God’s doing by joining with
HGM, as a part-time volunteer, as a full-time staff member, or
as a financial supporter.

MOBILIZE: HGM offers resources like missions mobilization material,
seminars, and speakers, that can help your church to get involved
in God’s global movement.

For more information, visit Heart of God Ministries (http://www.heartofgod.com)
on the web or call 405.737.9446.

EDITOR’S NOTE: They have a very cool web site! Take a look.

PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Sign up now for Principles of Language Acquisition: Natural Techniques and Skills (PLANTS) Held in Toronto April 2-14, 2006. PLANTS is a proactive approach to learning a new language. Before you are field-tested you can be language lab-tested. You can evaluate your language learning strengths and weaknesses, learn the principles and skills of language acquisition, practice with national speakers of your target language, and actually grow in your target language, all within two weeks in the world's most multi-cultural city - Toronto.

For more information go to
http://www.missionprep.ca