Mission School Curriculum
This is a very rough draft of the school curriculum so that you get an idea of what subjects we will be covering. It includes Bbile, Books/Readings, Teachings, Papers, and Videos.
Semester 1
Required Book Report – Bonding and the Missionary Task / Language Learning is Communication is Ministry (Brewsters)
Required Book Report – Foreign to Familiar
Orientation Week (Base Policies, School Policies, Foundational Value, GFM Overview, Oaxaca Overview, Chores, Spanish)
Staff and Student Testimonies
Required Book Report – Unveiled at Last (Bob Sjogren)
Video – Don’t Waste Your Life (60 minutes)
Missions and Death to Self Week
Required Book Report – Let the Nations be Glad (John Piper)
Optional Book Report – The Calvary Road (Roy Hesson) or The Cost of Discipleship (Bonhoeffer) or Absolute Surrender (Andrew Murray) or The Normal Christian Life (Watchman Nee)
Video – Cat and Dog Theology (8)(50 minutes)
Study – What About Those That Have Never Heard? (Across the Spectrum, What About Those…. Book)
Study – My/His Name, Sake, Glory
Inner Healing, Fasting, and Seeking Week
Required Book Report – Bondage Breaker (Neil Anderson) or Victory Over the Darkness (Neil Anderson)
Optional Book Report – Follow Me
Teaching – Sin Sheets
Teaching – Fasting (Youth Aflame – Simon the Zealot)
Intercessory Prayer Week
Required Book Report – Intercessory Prayer (Dutch Sheets)
Required Book Report – How to Read the Bible for All it’s Worth (Gordon Fee) – Chapter 1, 2
Optional Book Report – And God Changed His Mind (Brother Andrew) or The Kneeling Christian (Unknown) or Praying By the Power of the Holy Spirit (Neil Anderson) or With Christ in the School of Prayer (Andrew Murray)
Teaching – 7 steps of intercession (Joy Dawson), Hour that changes the world
Teaching – How to Read the Bible for all Its Worth – chapter 1,2, Joshua Project
Teaching – Gehenna, Hades Study
Teaching – Name it, claim it?
Study – Intercessory Prayer Questions and Issues
Study – God’s Will, And God Changed His Mind
Study – Prayer Study
Video – Intercessory Prayer (8)(30 minutes)
Relationships: Knowing Yourself and Others Week
Required Book Report – Sacred Pathways (Gary Tomas) – diagnostic, Chapters 1, 11, and three chapters
Optional Book Report – 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork or 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player www.maximumimpact.com
Video – Leadership Summit: The Leader’s Pathway (38 minutes)
Video – DISC (personality test) (6)(30 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: The Cause: It’s All About People (41 minutes)
Teaching – The Five Love Languages (Gary Chapman)
Teaching – How to Read the Bible For All It’s Worth – chapter 3,4
Personal and Lifestyle Evangelism Week
Required Book Report – Organic Church (Ed Cole)
Optional Book Report – Out of the Salt Shaker and into the World (Becky Pippert) or Becoming a Contagious Christian (Bill Hybels) or Just Walk Across the Room (Bill Hybels) or Clearly Communicating Christ (Linda Cope)
Study – Evangelism Study (bare minimums of salvation; evangelism clichés; biblical basis for different styles: street; door to door; cold turkey)
Study – What should a person’s motivation be for coming to Christ?
Study – The law (what is the NT purpose); is fear/judgment/punishment/hell okay motivation for coming to Christ?
Video – Way of the Master (26)(30 minutes)
Teaching – A Heart for Others (Don Stephens) – Chapter 4 & 8
Teaching – Different methods of sharing the gospel
Catholicism, Postmodernism, and New Wineskins Week
Required Book Report – Rethinking the Wineskin (Frank Viola)
Optional Book Report – The Emerging Church (Dan Kimball) or Postmodern Youth Ministry (Anthony Jones) or Emerging Churches (Eddie Gibbs)
Study – History and Facets of Catholicism (internet)
Study – Postmodernism and what it has to do with the mission field
Video – History of Christianity (6)(30 minutes)
Video – Another Jesus (1)(65 minutes)
Video – Messages from Heaven (1)(78 minutes)
Video – Countdown to Eternity (75 minutes)
Praise /Worship and Guy/Girl Relationships Week
Required Book Report – Every Man’s, Young Man’s, Woman’s, Young Woman’s Battle (Stephen Arterburn) or Not Even a Hint (Joshua Harris)
Optional Book Report – Worship His Majesty (Jack Hayford) or Pathways, Heights, Rivers of Delight (Dick Eastman)
Video – ISOM 1 (A4.2, A4.3) – Praise and Worship (2) (30 minutes)
Video – Facedown (Louie Giglio) – Every Glimpse is Grace
Video – Love & Respect
Video – Passion ’05 How Great Is Our God (Louie Giglio)(51 minutes) – Death to Self/Purity
Video – Relationships – Dean Sherman (1)(50 minutes)
Video – The Privileged Planet: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (6 minutes) and Facedown (Louie Giglio) – The Otherness of God
Video – 2006 Leadership Summit (Andy Stanley)
Video – Every Young Man’s Battle (1)(58 minutes)
Study – Praise and Worship, Presence of God
Study – Day of the Dead / Food Sacrificed to Idols
Teaching – 7 Hebrew words for praise
SHAPE (Spiritual gifts, God’s calling, teamwork) Week
Required Book Report – Ministering Cross-Culturally
Optional Book Report – Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow (Chapter 2, 3, 5, 8, your gifts) www.spiritualgiftsfinder.com
Video – Leadership Summit: The Leader’s State of Mind - Holy Discontent (Bill Hybels)(62 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: Leadership is Stewardship (Rick Warren)(45 minutes)
Video – Passion 07 Francis Chan (57 minutes)
Video – The Dream Giver (Bruce Wilkinson)(dreams, wasteland)
Video – Leadership Summit: Relational Intelligence (John Ortberg)(39 minutes)
Video – ISOM Ministry of Helps (Buddy Bell)(30 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)(57 minutes)
Teaching – Spiritual Gifts (SHAPE) – www.maximumimpact.com www.spiritualgiftsfinder.com
Teaching – Ministering Cross-Culturally graphs
Teaching – Mock Board Meeting
Study – God’s calling (Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Jonah, Matthew, Peter, Paul)
World Religions and Cults Week
Required Book Report – A Vision of the Possible
Optional Book Report – 101 Questions on Islam (John Renard) or Unveiling Islam (Caner) or 101 Questions on Hinduism (Renard) or 101 Questions on Buddhism (Renard) or 101 Questions on Confucianism (Renard) or Unveiling Islam, More Than A Prophet, Islam Unveiled, Sharing Jesus in the Buddhist World, Sharing Your Faith With a Hindu, Sharing Your Faith With A Buddhist , Let My People Go
Required Book Report – The Kingdom of Cults (Walter Martin) (one chapter)
Video – Unreached Peoples of Central Asia (8)(12 minutes)
Video – Encounter India (8)(5-20 minutes)
Video – Christianity and Islam (4)(25 minutes) (5 pillars, trinity)
Video – YWAM Thailand
Teaching – Christianity at the Religious Round Table or So, what’s the difference
Teaching – Perspectives Chapter 6
Teaching – Perspectives Chapter 7
Teaching – Kingdom of Cults
Thanksgiving/Holy Spirit Week
Required Book Report – Surprised by the Voice of God (Jack Deere)
Required Book Report – Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Jack Deere)
Healing and Faith Week
Required Book Report – Is that Really you God? (Loren Cunningham) or Making Jesus Lord (Cunningham)
Optional Book Report – Christ the Healer (F.F. Bosworth)
Video – ISOM (B5.1-5) – Jesus Our Healer Today (5) (50 minutes)
Video – ISOM () – Christ Connection – T.L. Osbourn
Video – ISOM () – How to activate your faith – Terry Law
Video – Power of the Testimony – Session 12 - (Bill Johnson)
Video – Stewarding Heavenly Things – Session 15 - (Bill Johnson)
Video – School of WIW Joy Dawson (Obedience) (63 minutes)
Study – Healing in the Word of God (OT, NT, faith)
Indigenous Church Week
Required Book Report – Searching for the Indigenous Church
Optional Book Report – The Indigenous Church, Indigenous Church Planting
Video – ISOM 1 (A3) – New Testament Survey (10) (50 minutes)
Video – ISOM 3 (C1) – Introduction to ISOM (1) (50 minutes)
Video – Friend Raising (1)(24 minutes)
Teaching – Perspectives Chapter 11
Teaching – Church planting blogs
Finances, Stewardship and Support Raising Week
Required Book Report – People Raising (William Dillon) or Getting Sent (Pete Sommer) or Daring to Live on the Edge (Loren Cunningham) or Friend Raising
Required Book Report – Cross-Cultural Connections (chapter 21 re-entry)
Optional Book Report – Mustard Seed vs. McWorld
Video – The Keith Green Concert Video (30 minutes)
Video – ISOM 5 (E2) – Living to Give (5) (50 minutes)
Video – The Treasure Principle (2)(30 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: Making Vision Stick (55 minutes)
Video – The Keith Green Story (60 minutes)
Teaching – Finances and the Bible
Teaching – Donor Manager
Teaching – Biblical Basis of Support Raising
Teaching – Rob (church planting movements, 7 steps of obedience to Christ)
Christmas Break
Required Book Report – Eternity in their Hearts (Don Richardson)
Required Book Report – The Master Plan of Evangelism (Robert Coleman)
Optional Book Report – In His Steps (Charles Sheldon) or A Shepherds Look at Psalm 23 (Phillip Keller)
Leadership Week
Required Book Report – Purpose-Driven Church (Rick Warren)
Optional Book Report – The Next Generation Leader (Andy Stanley) or Spiritual Leadership (Oswald Sanders) or Courageous Leadership (Bill Hybels) or 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (John Maxwell) or Developing the Leader Within You (John Maxwell) or Leadership Paradox (Denny Gunderson) or In the Name of Jesus
Video – Leadership Summit: The Seduction of a Leader (John Ortberg)(45 minutes)
Video – ISOM 4 (D2.1, D2.4) – Developing Leaders (Brian Houston)(2)(30 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: The Leader’s Excellence (Bill Hybels)(48 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: The Character Matrix (Erwin McManus)(56 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: The 360 Degree Leader (Bill Hybels)(50 minutes)
Video – Leadership Summit: Blanchard and Maxwell interview
Teaching – Purpose Driven Church
Revival and Community Transformation Week
Required Book Report – Why Revival Tarries (Leonard Ravenhill) or God Chasers (Tommy Tenney) or The Pursuit of God (AW Tozer)
Optional Book Report – Discipling Nations (Darrow Miller) or Mandate for Mercy (Floyd McClung)
Video – Transformations (60 minutes)
Video – Spent to Be Spent – Session 11 (Randy Clark)
Video – Facedown (Louie Giglio)(40 minutes) – Lost in Wonder
Video – Transformations 2 (75 minutes)
Video – Pulling on Tomorrow – Session 17 - (Bill Johnson)
Video – Let the Sea Resound (75 minutes)
Video – Quickening (52 minutes)
Teaching – Transforming Culture
Teaching – Tentmaking
Teaching – Community Development (digging wells, making filters, solar cooking, agriculture, community health)
Teaching – Chapter 8 – Community Development
Orality and Storytelling Week
Required Book Report – Making Disciples of Oral Learners
Optional Book Report – The Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures (1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) and Cross Cultural Connections (1 – 12)
Video – The Ancient Path - Teaching the Bible orally/Storytelling Workshop (10)
Video – Ee-Taow – The Mouk Story (25 minutes)
Video – Now We See Clearly/Storytelling (1)(45 minutes)
Video – The Taliabo Story (35 minutes)
Spiritual Warfare and Authority Week
Required Book Report – Authority and Submission (Watchman Nee) or Under Cover (John Bevere)
Optional Book Report – Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) or Spiritual Warfare (Dean Sherman) or Stand Up and Fight (Barry Austin) or How to Win Souls and Influence People (Ray Comfort) or This Present Darkness (Frank Peretti) or Tale of Three Kings (Gene Edwards)
Study - Devil, Satan, Enemy, Demons, Evil Spirit, Darkness, Powers, Authorities, Principalities (purpose, tactics, strategy, our role)
Video – Spiritual Warfare (12)(50 minutes)
Video – Angels, Triumph – Terry Law
Video – Partnering with the Holy Spirit (Bill Johnson) – Session 7
Video – Under Cover – Submission and Authority (John Bevere)
Video – The Bait of Satan (John Bevere)
Video – The Taliabo Story: Delivered from the Power of Darkness (35 minutes)
Indigenous Laborers and Persecuted Church Week
Required Book Report – Revolution in World Missions (KP Yohannan)
Optional Book Report – Heavenly Man (Brother Yun)
Video – The Burnham Story (35 minutes)
Video – Suffering: Everything Glorious (John Piper)
Video – Seoul Train
Video – The Cross (4)
Video – Beyond Gates of Splendor (35 minutes)
Video – Ee-Taow – The Next Chapter (35 minutes)
Video – Christ’s Call - KP Yohannan
Video – Peace Child (30 minutes)
Video – Travel the Road – Episode 7 – To the Limits
Teaching - Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision
Hearing God’s Voice and Holy Spirit Week #2
Required Book Report – Fresh Power (Jim Cymbala) or Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (Jim Cymbala) or Forever Ruined for the Ordinary (Joy Dawson) or If You Want To Walk On Water (John Ortberg)
Optional Book Report – No Compromise (Kieth Green) or The Calling (Brother Andrew) or Intercessor (Rees Howells) or Bruchko (Bruce Olson)
Video – ISOM 3 (C4.1-C4.5) – Power Evangelism (5) (30 minutes)
Video – ISOM 3 (C8.1-C8.4) – Being Led By the Spirit (4) (30 minutes)
Apologetics and Theology Week
Required Book Report – The Case for Christ or Faith (Lee Strobel) or More Than a Carpenter (Josh McDowell) or Letters from a Skeptic (Gregory Boyd)
Required Book Report – Speaking My Mind (Tony Campolo) - Eternal Now Chapter
Optional Book Report – Don’t Waste Your Life (John Piper)
Video – Amazing Grace (4 hours, 30 minutes)(Chapters)
Video – The Privileged Planet (1)(60 minutes)
Video – A Question of Origins (1)(60 minutes)
Video – Unlocking the Mystery of Life (1)(60 minutes)
Video – Louie Giglio (Alive and How Great is Our God)
Video – Passion ’03 Sacred Revolution (John Piper)(32 minutes) – Calvinism/Holiness of God
Church Planting Movements Week
Required Book Report – The Forgotten Ways (Allen Hirsch)
Optional Book Report – http://www.imb.org/CPM ; You Can Make a Difference – Vocation Chapter (Tony Campolo)
Perspectives Chapter
http://guymuse.blogspot.com/2007/04/church-planting-movements.html
Spring Break Teams Training Week
Required Book Report – The Blueprint (Jaeson Ma)
Required Book Report – Mack and Leann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions
Spring Break #1
Required Book Report – Starting a House Church (Larry Kreider and Floyd McClung)
Optional Book Report – Life Together (Bonhoeffer) or Everyone’s Normal Til You Get to Know Them (John Ortberg) or Learning to Love the People You Don’t Like (Floyd McClung) or The Taste of New Wine or The Connecting Church or Making Room For Life or The Normal Christian Church Life (Watchman Nee)
Spring Break #2
Required Book Report – The Gospel According to Jesus (John MacArthur) or The Ragamuffin Gospel (Brennan Manning) or Father Heart of God (Floyd McClung)
Optional Book Report – No Compromise (Kieth Green) or The Calling (Brother Andrew) or Intercessor (Rees Howells) or Bruchko (Bruce Olson)
Book Report – The Bible Jesus Read (Philip Yancey) – Chapter 1, 7
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