Last Semester Already?!?

This is what our classes look like, in our last semester here at the training centre.

Biblical Foundations
* Phase 4: (62 hrs)  Phase 4 begins to walk through the epistles, seeking to understand what our position in Christ is, and what a walk with God looks like.

Church Planting
* Literacy: (8hrs)  Helps the missionary candidate understand the essential role of a literacy program in the growth and development of the church.
* Curriculum Development: (25hrs) Introduces the missionary candidates to important guidelines for implementing a Foundational Bible Teaching program in a cross-culturual setting among an unreached people group.
* Semantics and Translation: (16hrs)  Introduces us to meaning based translation principles along with the translation guidelines.  We will get some of the procedures and processes of translation through lectures in class and then we will be able to practice these in teams with a Bible passage.

Missional Lifestyle
* Culture and Language Acquisition Practicum: (74hrs) During this practicum we will apply basic techniques of culture and language acquisition (CLA).  Through real language learning situations we will learn basic CLA methods and put them into practice  This will include basic culture investigation techniques.  Through this time we will reach a beginning level of communication in a new language.

Complementary Courses
* Personal Safety: (40hrs)  Increases the missionary candidates awareness of the risks affecting missionaries today, and provides practical tools for avoiding and facing those risks in a biblical manner.
* Families in Ministry: (5hrs)  This course is designed to expand on the 2nd semester Families in Ministry course.  Topics include cultural influences on parenting, making transitions and dealing with unexpected interruptions as they relate to educational planning and parenting overseas.
* Global Perspectives: (12hrs)  New Tribes Mission Canada (NTMC) is closely connected with several other sending and ministry organizations all over the world.  In this class students are brought up to date on trends, activities and changes within our many global partner organizations.

Does all of that seem like enough?  How can you pray for us?  Pray that we end the semester and our training time here well.  We have learned just enough to know we have much to learn, but we have a good start.  We are so grateful for the training program here, and look forward to when we can put into practice on the field, what we have learned here.