Phase 1 Courses:

• Integrative Theology and Mission: Vision of Shalom

  This class integrates insights from the fields of theology and missiology with reflecting on a biblical view of God’s mission to restore shalom in all creation. The course walks through the whole biblical story from this perspective, laying a foundation for a lifestyle in which we join God in his mission.

• Community Development

  In this course, students will be exposed to the foundational theories and practices of Community Transformation, based on the interdisciplinary field of Community Development and on biblically-based holistic missiology. Students will have the opportunity to implement simple community Seed Projects.

• Movement Dynamics

  This course covers the essential foundations of Movement Dynamics, the individual and group dynamics that promote movements to Jesus and that bring God-glorifying transformation. The course will address students holistically as potential movement catalysts and leaders, cultivating the qualities of mind, heart, and practice that have been found in movement catalysts and leaders around the globe.

• Social Business

  As the foundational, opening course in the Social Business Area of Focus, this course introduces the biblical principles, transformative business paradigms, and best practices of business and entrepreneurship that empower positive transformative impact in communities and societies.

• Discipleship and Mentoring 1

  This course pursues discipleship towards Christlikeness together with mentoring towards a God-honoring personal calling. The course consists of Bible study, a group discipleship meeting every two weeks (6x per term), and one-on-one (or couple-to-couple) meetings with a discipler/mentor (2x per term).

• Spirituality and Wholeness 1

  This course integrates spirituality and wholeness through a biblical framework (the relational diamond), with an emphasis on intimacy with God, identity in Christ, abiding in Christ, internal/inner healing, and hearing God’s voice.

Phase 2 Courses:

• Applied Learning in Community Development

  In this course, learners will engage a community or a community organization through research, service, organizing, or other development activities. Learners will systematically report on their learning and service experiences and receive coaching and feedback from experienced development practitioners.

• Applied Learning in Movement Dynamics

  In this course, learners will go through the systematic “PEOPLES” planning process for engaging in a less-reached community and catalyzing a movement to Jesus among them. Students will systematically reflect and report on their experiences and receive coaching from experienced movement practitioners.

• Applied Learning in Social Business

  In this course, learners will be expected to implement an existing business idea and plan, typically one that they developed within the Foundations of Social Business course. Students will systematically reflect and report on their experiences and receive coaching from experienced, kingdom-minded business practitioners and instructors.

• Applied Learning in Integrative Theology and Mission

  In this course, learners will engage a community, a community organization, or a church within a community through research, teaching, training, or other activities that involve theologizing and missiological reflection. Learners will systematically report on their learning and service experiences and receive coaching and feedback from experienced theological or missiological/mission practitioners.

• Discipleship and Mentoring 2

  This course emphasizes the life of a disciple in a community with fellow disciples and the responsibility to make disciples in the way that Jesus modeled and commanded. The course includes group discipleship meetings every two weeks and occasional individual or couple meetings for tailored mentoring.

• Spirituality and Wholeness 2

  This course integrates spirituality and wholeness through Christ-centered character formation (focused on self-denial and humility), practicing classical spiritual disciplines, and pursuing honoring and healthy relationships with others in the Christian community.

• Transforming Truths: Theology for Shalom

  This course introduces the main teachings of the Christian faith as they are taught in Scripture and have been developed throughout church history. In studying these truths, a significant focus is placed on their application to the Christian life and to global Christian mission. The course will show how theological truth leads to God-glorifying transformation towards shalom in all of life. In addition, the course equips learners to think theologically from the Scriptures, with relevant contributions from tradition, experience and reason.

• Intercultural Studies

  This course introduces the field of intercultural studies with an emphasis on the whole-person formation of reflective practitioners. The “head” is formed through intercultural and missiological theory, the “heart” is shaped through cultivating appropriate attitudes toward other cultures, and the “hands” are equipped through skill-building experiential learning exercises. A particular learning emphasis in this course is the application of innovation principles and processes to understanding intercultural challenges.

Phase 3 Courses:

• Discipleship and Mentoring 3

  This course emphasizes understanding our royal identity in Christ and walking in greater miraculous power, while continuing with opportunities for individualized mentoring and coaching.

• Spirituality and Wholeness 3

  This course integrates the spiritual growth and inspiration gained through reading biographies of spiritual and missional heroes with practical lessons on growing in relational wholeness in their families and other core relationships.

• Transformational Leadership

  This course provides a holistic introduction to transformational leadership with a biblically-based, culturally sensitive, global perspective. The course will empower students towards their own leadership development and formation by addressing the cognitive (head), affective (heart), and practical (hands) aspects of Christ-like transformational leadership.

• Globalization, Holistic Mission, and Development 

  This course raises key theological and missiological questions that arise in the national and global contexts of God's mission, calling for students to develop their own contextual and biblical ways of addressing these questions. Some areas of inquiry include discerning the most fruitful forms of interaction between Western and Non-Western forms of mission and development, understanding the right emphasis on gospel proclamation and social action in holistic transformation, and the interrelation between the grass-roots local work and the work social and political elites in the journey towards God's shalom.

• Capstone Project in an Area of Focus

  This course is the culmination of a learner’s previous study in a particular Area of Focus, integrating the theoretical foundations and applied learning experiences in this Area of Focus as well as integrating these with the foundational principles of Community Transformation and other Areas of Focus.  Students will produce a significant paper or presentation that summarizes what they have learned and how it applies to a particular issue that they have researched and applied to their context.