The EDGE is a unique missions training program of Grace University, Omaha, NE. This
workshop will describe how formal, non-formal, and informal aspects of education are
combined in a six-month, field-based experience for undergraduate students who want to
serve God cross-culturally. Led by Michael Smith and John Costello, Grace University.

Learning that LASTS gives Christian workers basic skills for designing and conducting
training for adults, preparing you to build motivation, competence, and confidence in those
you teach. Based on universal principles of how adults learn and how Jesus taught, the
LASTS principles can be adapted for any culture. In this workshop you will experience this
method and consider how you can use it in your own training programs. Led by Barbara
Colborn and Margaret Spielmann, Wycliffe.

Fasten your seat belts for 90 minutes of interactive-hands-on-take-home tools for designing
a relational-based self-discovery adult learning program called LIFE-ON-LIFE! Experience
for yourself how confetti, coat hangers, and video clips can transform a traditional
talking-head program into a teachable-moment-driven paradigm. Led by Steve Aldrich, OC
International.

Connecting the Dots Between Training Challenges and Later Ministry
Effectiveness will help you understand how people bring their past experience to their
future ministry. These guidelines will help you avoid the common pitfalls and focus on
effectiveness. Led by Brent Lindquist, LinkCare.

Intensive Russian Program addresses difficult mission fields such as the former Soviet
Union and the Middle East--how one training program is rising to the challenge of equipping
the next generation of missionaries with linguistic and cross-cultural skills for effective
service in the tough areas of the world. Led by Marc Canner, Russian Language Ministries.

The Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of North Dakota (SIL UND):
Language and Linguistics Package workshop will familiarize you with SIL related
training programs, demonstrating how elements of current second-language acquisition
and phonetics theory are applied. Their 9-week summer course is designed to equip
people to effectively work cross-linguistically and cross-culturally. The faculty at SIL UND
models good adult learning principles, including living and working effectively in a secular
context. Led by Mark Karan, SIL.

Missionary Development Program of Calvary Church. How can a local church develop
those from within its congregation for effective missionary service? And how do such efforts
effectively relate to training structures and resources outside the local church? This
workshop will explore a case study of one local church's efforts to define responsibilities
and create an interactive process that develops missionaries at a personalized pace. Led
by Dave Hall, Calvary Church.

The Grid and Group Theory provides an anthropological framework for understanding
one's own culture in relation to other cultures, with the concept of the "image of God" used
to evaluate and address conflict arising from cultural differences in light of Biblical
principles. In an attempt to counter the trend toward individualism that is prevalent in
American missionary training, the course takes students through their own childhood
homes, revisiting family roles, nurturing practices, hospitality, food, work, and rest. Led by
Pete and Sheryl Takagi Silzer, SIL and Biola University.

The Impact of Your Training Methods: The Right Stuff, Part II.  All things being equal
(right issues, right staff, right environment), your methodology will likely make or break the
effectiveness of your training. This workshop will attempt to share the most successful
methologies currently employed by Missionary Training International in all of their programs.
Led by Steve Sweatman, MTI.

Less Me--More We.  Is it really true that together we can do what alone we cannot? Or
would it be better stated that what one can do alone the many can do better? In this
workshop, the nature, value, and motivation for partnership will be considered as well as the
reasons why a successful training partnership produces more effectively (and efficiently)
trained missionaries.  Led by various partners from the Center for Intercultural Training, this
seminar will show why — and how — it has worked as a partner model.

Field Internship: Good Intention or Great Practice? Practical field training experiences
are recognized as an important part of excellent missionary preparation.  So how do you
move from good intentions to great practice?  In the last decade, Bethany College of
Missions has moved its 9 month field internship from an elective to the centerpiece of its
program. This workshop will review the process of change, the feedback that led to change,
bumps along the way, and the current structure of the program including changes still in
process.  Led by Paul F. Hartford, Director, Bethany College of Missions.

This workshop/case study with help you learn and dialogue how to do missionary
training/recruitment using a weekend retreat. The Journey Deepens is a retreat for
prospective missionaries and mentors that includes five small group meetings, four
fellowship meals, three general sessions and one panel, helping participants explore what
it's like to be a missionary, to discover whether a missionary or sender role is God's fit, and
to connect with others for follow-up. Led by Jim Hogrefe of OMS and Steve Hoke of CRM.

Perspectives: Awakening and Linking Your Congregation to Relevant Ideas,
Connections, and People. Led by Bob Stevens, USCWM, and Meg Crossman,
Perspectives Partnership.

Short-Term Missionary Training. Led by Don Smith, IICC and Worldview Center.