TRAINING - FORMAL & NON-

Training Task Group Suggestions/Charter

Summary of the task:

Rick Higgins, Columbia Bible College, will help in developing this portion of the overall initiative and include non-formal mission training as a component.

IDEALLY, THE TASK GROUP WILL ...

Develop a partnership of training institutions to provide deliverables, taking into account the high values of the MissionNext movement, such as self-discovery, gifting, calling, personality, and preferences assessments. The goal is to bring an engaged person to the point where they develop a philosophy-of-mission statement, a ministry assessment profile, and a spiritual formation plan, for example.

Offer on-line self-assessments. The preferences assessments are generally culturally bound, and therefore, will require involvement of Christian sociologists to develop instruments and a delivery method for such assessments to help in discovering purpose in serving.

To have an effective initiative, consensus was built that this partnership of training institutions will likely develop a highly relational approach. This is to allow those searching a platform to tell their story, to mentor or be mentored, to build relationship, to build a sense of community - all with the goal to coach people to take a next step.

Ideally this task group will develop a community of life coaches for this first-half (and the second-half) generations, perhaps issuing a certificate of completion or certificate of courage.