SCHOOL OF STRATEGIC MISSIONS

THE SCHOOL OF STRATEGIC MISSIONS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO FACILITATE LEADERS FOR STRATEGIC MISSIONS IN THIS CHANGING WORLD. IT IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE AND HOW TO UTILIZE AVAILABLE RESOURCES BEST TO GET THE GOSPEL of the kingdom TO THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE LEAST AMOUNT OF TIME. THROUGH SOSM WE ENDEAVOR TO PREPARE YOU TO RECOGNIZE STRATEGIC SEASONS OF OPPORTUNITY AND STRATEGIC TARGET AREAS SUCCESSFULLY AND TO ENGAGE THEM EFFECTIVELY WITH A FRONTIERS EMPHASIS. ​

OVERVIEW

THE SOSM IS A COURSE FOR DTS GRADUATES TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES, PERSPECTIVE, AND A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN REACHING THE UNREACHED AND DISCIPLING THE NATIONS.

​THE SOSM AIMS TO TRAIN UP NEW MISSIONARIES TO GO UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH AND SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. WHETHER IT IS STARTING UP A NEW MINISTRY OR JOINING AN EXISTING HOMEFRONT OR FRONTLINE TEAM, THE SOSM WILL BETTER PREPARE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF MISSIONS AND YOUR ROLE WITHIN THE MISSIONS MOVEMENT. 
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​THE SCHOOL INCLUDES TWO SIX-WEEK MODULES FOR LECTURES FOLLOWED BY AN OPTIONAL TWELVE-WEEK OUTREACH OR LONG-TERM FIELD PLACEMENT, CUSTOM-TAILORED FOR YOU. 

​WHILE THE FIRST MODULE IS A SELF-STANDING FOUNDATIONAL COURSE, DESIGNED FOR MISSIONS MOBILIZERS AND LOCAL CHURCH LEADERS, THE SECOND MODULE IS BUILT ON TOP OF THE FIRST MODULE, FOCUSED ON FACILITATING FURTHER SKILLS FOR CROSS-CULTURAL WORKERS. ​

THE TWO MODULES CAN BE OPERATED INDIVIDUALLY AND SEPARATELY, OR CONTINUOUSLY IN A ROW DEPENDING ON THE NEEDS IN THE SCHOOL. WHEN WE OPERATE THEM SEPARATELY, THERE WILL BE STAFF OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRIES IN YWAM SLIGO AFTER THE FIRST MODULE. THEY WILL BE YOUR MOMENTS TO EXPERIENCE PIONEERING NEW MINISTRIES WITH THE SKILLS YOU’VE LEARNED DURING THE FIRST MODULE BEFORE CONTINUING ONTO THE SECOND MODULE.

Course Details


​MODULE ONE:
​FOUNDATIon

The Foundation Module is to equip the students with strategic thinking, perspective on missions, and practical skills to reach local communities and develop mobilization ministries as homefront missionaries, which are applicable cross-culturally. This module is for staff training, missions mobilizers, and local church leaders. (Note: The module ONE MAY BE open to local church leaders.)

COURSE SUBJECTS INCLUDE:  

• Foundations of Strategic missions
• Discipling Nations: the Historical Perspective
• Spiritual Warfare & prayer For Nations
​• Community Development
• Disciple-Making Movement
• STS Bible Storytelling


​MODULE TWO:
​LAUnCH

The Launch Module is to facilitate the students with further training for cross-cultural ministries to go to one of the darkest and most strategic areas in today’s mission field as frontline missionaries. This module is for staff training and missions mobilizers, and necessary for researchers, trainers, strategists, and frontiers-focused workers.
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COURSE SUBJECTS INCLUDE:

• Cities & Urban Missions ​
• Team Building & Conflict Resolution
• Church-Planting Movement Among the Unreached
• Developing Sodality in the 10/40 window
• Cross-cultural Ministries, Cultural Adaption, & Language Acquisition
• Strategic Research

Dates

Module One: Autumn 2021 
​Module Two: winter 2021 TBC

Cost

Module One: TBA
Module Two: TBA

Location: Central Asia

​These are our focus places, but We will not be going to all of these places during this SOSM.

In teams or internships, students partner with long-term workers in the 10/40 Window. Students will apply what is learned in the classroom by living and working among some of the most needy and neglected peoples of the world in places such as: South Asia, Morocco, Marseille in France, Lebanon, and Ireland.