The first field assignment a To Every Tribe missionary has is to serve on a church planting team in Northern Mexico. During this first two year term, our missionaries are trained, guided, and mentored by veteran missionaries and church planters. We help our missionaries learn how to cross a culture, be fruitful in mission, endure on the field, share the gospel, make disciples, and strategically plant churches. Throughout their first two years, our missionaries are involved in Mexico trips and debriefs, One-to-One mentoring, and yearly trips to other To Every Tribe mission fields. One year of the training is focused on the Mission and the other on the Missionary. Below is an overview of the classroom training for each of those years.
Training overview
Missionary Year
How to endure in the mission
Church Planting: Personal Readiness
The Missionary Identity:
Finding Your Identity in ChristTheology of Risk, Faith and Adventure
Northern Mexico Training
Perseverance in Mission
Missionary Attrition:
Individuals, Marriages, and ChildrenRelating to Your Sending Church
Theology & Exposition in Mission
Theology: Creation, Lordship of Christ,
Holy Spirit, and the CrossExposition in Mission: Poetry
Exposition in Mission: Old Testament
Exposition in Mission: Prophecy
Team Building
Successful Team Building
Understanding Your Ministry Traits
The Gospel
Gospel Theology
Spiritual Warfare
Overview of Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual Disciplines for Missionaries
Truth in Life
Living and Working Cross-culturally
Theology Leading to Love
Mission Year
How to be fruitful in the mission
Keys to Pioneer Church Planting
Business as Mission & Creative Access Mission
Principles of Pioneer Church Planting
Managing Missionary Risk
Northern Mexico Training
Crossing Cultures
Crossing Cultures in Scripture
Communicating Christ Cross-culturally
Cross-cultural Disciple-making
8 Phases of Pioneer Church Planting
Administration and Church Planting
Cultural Analysis
Contextualization & Syncretism
Cultural Exegesis - the Bible
Assimilation
Surface and Deep Culture Analysis
Cultural Exegesis - Ethnodoxology
Evangelism & Apologetics
Mission Apologetics
Understanding Islam
Ecclesiology
Global Ecclesiology
The Nature of the Church
Exposition in Mission: New Testament
Oral Bible Storying
Exposition in Mission: The Gospels
Exposition in Mission: Prophecy