Raising Up Missionaries
Practical Resources and Tools
To send missionaries, churches first need to raise missionaries. Here are several opportunities for helping the men, women, children, and families in your congregation to learn about missions and consider how God is calling them to bless the nations.
Group Studies
Finding Your Role in God’s Global Plan
This 5-day YouVersion Bible reading plan helps readers discover how God uses ordinary people to fulfill His extraordinary plan for the nations. It offers a brief introduction to the Great Commission and how God can use unique passions and skills to reach the lost.
Across the Street and Around the World
This practical handbook helps followers of Jesus align with God’s heart to reach all peoples. It guides readers to build intentional relationships with people from different backgrounds in their own neighborhood and beyond.
Serve International Students
Connect with international students at a nearby campus. Contact your local college’s international students office to learn about volunteer opportunities. You can also find nearby ministries and connect with students through International Friendships, Inc. and International Students, Inc., two Christian organizations that introduce international students to followers of Jesus.
Consider “adopting” a student and welcoming them into your home on a regular basis. You can invite them to your holiday celebrations, bring them to church, and ask them to study the Bible with you. You can also house international students in your home for the school year.
Trips and Experiences
Interactive Experiences
Create interactive experiences for people of all ages to engage in learning and outreach opportunities. For example, arrange a field trip to a local mosque or temple. Reach out to leaders at the place of worship and ask if they’d be willing to give your group a tour or have a Q-and-A session. Afterwards, debrief the experience as a group. This is also an excellent way to build relationships with leaders of other religious communities.
Short-Term, Prayer, and Vision Trips
Short-term and prayer trips are strategic opportunities to introduce your church members to God’s global work. One church has a goal of sending every person in their congregation on a short-term trip at least once.
Vision trips help participants gain strategic perspective for a particular people group or place. The primary goal on a vision trip is to help people get their feet wet and catch a vision for how God wants to use them and their church to bring the Gospel to those who have yet to hear it.
Ask your prospective missionaries to lead a short-term trip as a facet of their leadership development and ministry preparation.
Contact the Frontiers Church Engagement team to learn about trips to the Muslim world where you’ll serve alongside long-term workers who are making disciples and planting churches.
Educational Courses and Hands-On Practicums
Momentum Yes
12 weeks
This free nine-hour small-group experience helps everyday people take the next steps to engage with God’s Kingdom purposes.
The course includes online videos, discussion questions, and activities to help people rethink God’s mission and their unique roles in it.
Catalyze
2 or 3 days
Presented by Frontiers, Catalyze is an intensive two- or three-day experience designed to impart practical skills for sharing Jesus with Muslims. Participants discover specific needs in the Muslim world, how they can help meet those needs, and the steps it takes to get to the field.
Catalyze is offered in different cities throughout the year, and it can be brought to a city near you. Contact the Frontiers Church Engagement team to learn more.
Pathways
12 weeks
Pathways is a 12-week video series centered on Scripture to help people learn about God’s heart for the nations and their role in His global story. It provides a holistic understanding of the Great Commission and God’s plan to make Himself known to all peoples.
Pathways is also available as an in-person class in Arizona.
Perspectives
15 weeks
This comprehensive course provides an in-depth missions foundation and covers God’s purpose for the nations as seen throughout the Bible. Sessions are taught by experienced leaders and veteran missionaries. The course highlights the greatest needs in missions today and helps believers discover their role in God’s plan.
Courses are held in about 200 locations across North America.
Pre-Field and On-the-Field Training
Frontiers Internships
6 weeks to 11 months
Frontiers offers customized internships in various cities around the Muslim world. Interns generally focus on cross-cultural training, language learning, cultural adaptation, discipleship training, and learning about team dynamics.
Contact the Frontiers Church Engagement team to learn more.
Gap
9 months
A Frontiers Gap trip is a nine-month cross-cultural adventure in South Asia, a region with one of the highest concentrations of unreached people groups in the world.
Participants will gain hands-on experience in the Muslim world and discover how God wants to use them in His Kingdom.
Launch Global
10 weeks to 9 months
Pathways is a 12-week video series centered on Scripture to help people learn about God’s heart for the nations and their role in His global story. It provides a holistic understanding of the Great Commission and God’s plan to make Himself known to all peoples.
Pathways is also available as an in-person class in Arizona.
Studio
3 months
This three-month stateside internship prepares students for effective and fruitful service on the field.
Classroom learning is combined with daily interactions in a Muslim community to equip interns with practical ministry experience. Interns are coached and mentored by veteran field workers.