{"id":1909,"date":"2019-12-11T13:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missional.university\/programs\/?page_id=1909"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:09:54","slug":"undergraduate-certificate-in-intercultural-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/missional.university\/programs\/undergraduate-certificate-in-intercultural-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Certificate in Intercultural Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOnline Undergraduate Certificate Program in
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School: Missional College\u00a0 \/\/\u00a0 Study Area: Serving Among Cultural Difference<\/h4>\n

\u2670<\/font><\/a> \u00a0Similar to Other Universities, But with a Unique Set of Courses<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

Expand Your Intercultural Abilities Today!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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REQUEST INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Ready to learn more about the<\/h5>\n

Undergraduate Certificate in
\nIntercultural Mission?<\/h4>\n

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The Undergraduate Certificate in Intercultural Mission offers applicants to mission boards and agencies, candidates for missionary work, mission workers among culturally different peoples, and missional believers serving in their communities the following capabilities:<\/p>\n

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    • ability to relate the biblical and theological foundations of God's plan for global redemption throughout the Old and New Testament to the missional mandate within various cultures<\/li>\n
    • ability to strategically mobilize, equip and engage Christians to join the mission of God by becoming culturally enaged in their communities<\/li>\n
    • ability to develop strategies for living and ministering in intercultural settings including dealing with culture shock, team dynamics and observation skills<\/li>\n
    • ability to employ current missional strategies to make disciples through church planting movements<\/li>\n
    • ability to apply the principles and skills necessary to learn a second language\/culture<\/li>\n
    • ability to utilize basic tools of cultural anthropology to determine openings for global engagement through self-reflection and evaluation of key principles<\/li>\n
    • ability to communicate a gospel witness in a new cultural context through applying principles arising from linguistics, contextualization, storying and the use of new developments in fields of technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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      All believers have been sent by Jesus Christ to serve in the mission of God in the world just as He was sent by God - and thus should be involved in missional service wherever they are. However, for centuries, Christian churches, church groups, mission agencies, and non-profits & NGOs have sent out \"missionaries\" who are specifically tasked to share the gospel, start faith communities [churches] and to\u00a0perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.<\/p>\n

      Intercultural mission takes this a step further. It acknowledges that missional believers as well as \"missionaries\" must first be culturally-engaged, that is, that missional service is relational, mutual, dialogical, open-ended, and creates space within which God\u2019s missio dei <\/i>[the mission of God] can be experienced. The Undergraduate Certificate in Intercultural Mission equips students to become missionally-driven, interculturally-focused and contextually-informed so that they may confidently engage the complexity and diversity of cultural identities today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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        Integrated practicums allow you to gain valuable real-world experience<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
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        Learn from academic practitioners from around the world<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
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        Credits earned in this certificate program can apply to a Missional University Bachelor completion program<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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        What Will I Study?<\/h3>\n

        We offer the most comprehensive approach to serving interculturally in the mission of God.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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        An investigation of the biblical theology of mission. The student will analyze three distinct but interrelated areas: The biblical and theological foundations of mission; the Kingdom of God as the theme of mission; and progressive revelation throughout salvation history. The student will be able to construct his\/her own mission theological framework.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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