Antioch Missional Training Center
Curriculum Overview
Christ the Rock Ministries
In partnership with Betancourt Missions
First Year Foundation Courses
| Class name | Duration |
|---|---|
| Worthy: God is worthy for us to reach out for his redemptive purpose. | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| A foundational look at the worthiness of Christ as the motivation for mission, grounding the student's calling in worship before service. | |
| Personal & Devotional life | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Building sustainable rhythms of prayer, Scripture, rest, and accountability that keep a worker healthy on the field. | |
| Reading the Bible Missionally | 16 sessions8 weeks |
| Learning to read Scripture through the lens of God's heart for the nations, from Genesis to Revelation. | |
| Biblical Theology of Missions: Tracing the redemptive plan | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Tracing the redemptive plan of God through the whole biblical narrative and its implications for mission today. | |
| The Gospels and Jesus' Leadership Style | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Studying how Jesus called, formed, and released disciples, and what that model means for missional leadership. | |
| The Book of Acts and Missions | 16 sessions8 weeks |
| A close study of Acts as the template for Spirit-empowered witness, church planting, and apostolic sending. | |
Second Year Streams
In the second year, students choose one of two streams based on their calling.
Local Church Planting Stream
| Class name | Duration |
|---|---|
| Evangelism and Discipleship Strategies | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Practical approaches to sharing the gospel and forming disciples in the student's own community context. | |
| Community Needs Assessment and Development | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Tools for listening to a community, identifying real needs, and responding with sustainable, dignifying ministry. | |
| Leadership Development and Multiplication | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Identifying, training, and releasing new leaders so ministry multiplies beyond the founder. | |
| Church Planting Models and Movements | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Surveying historic and contemporary church planting models and the dynamics of multiplying movements. | |
| Creating a Church Planting or Missional Strategy: developing a strategy and white paper for church planting or another missional project within the student's gifting | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| A capstone course in which the student develops and defends a written strategy for a church plant or missional project matched to their gifting. | |
Overseas Missions Stream
| Class name | Duration |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Missiology | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| An overview of the theology, history, and practice of cross-cultural mission. | |
| Cross-Cultural Communication and Adaptation | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Developing the skills to communicate the gospel faithfully and live well within another culture. | |
| Language Acquisition and Culture Stress | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Strategies for learning a new language and navigating the emotional and spiritual strain of cultural transition. | |
| Strategic Planning for Unreached People Groups | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Researching unreached and frontier peoples and building a wise, prayerful plan for engagement. | |
| Contextualization and Church Planting | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Planting churches that are biblically faithful and culturally at home in their setting. | |
Electives
| Class name | Duration |
|---|---|
| Missional Leadership | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Character, calling, and competency for leading missional teams and initiatives. | |
| Missional Worship | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| The role of worship in forming a sending church and in cross-cultural ministry. | |
| Business as Mission | 12 sessions6 weeks |
| Using vocation and enterprise as a legitimate platform and blessing in mission contexts. | |
Standard Module Structure
Each module runs for 6 weeks, meeting twice per week.
- 1Introduction to Concepts
- 2Exploring Principles
- 3Practical Application
- 4Project Work
- 5Advanced Topics
- 6Review and Final Project Submission