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Introduction to Missions

Introduction to Missions



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Missions songs

Professor/student contract

Improving the papers you hand in

Getting good grades

Listening to boring lectures

Ruining missions trips

"Commitment" -- by an African pastor

Praying for missionaries

Giving a year as a volunteer missionary

Avoid becoming a missionary

Missions songs

PowerPoint presentations

NMI resourcess
 
Introduction to Missions is one of the missiology offerings of Southern Nazarene University. It touches on topics that are looked at in greater depth in courses like Cultural Anthropology, Theology of Missions, Modern Missionary Movement, Mission Strategies and World Religions.
While this is the introductory course for those wishing to major in world missions, one major purpose of Introduction to Missions is to build globally-minded Christians and church leaders. Thus, it will be largely populated by those who are headed to something other than cross- cultural, expatriate missionary service.

Course resources

Biblical/Theological

History

Culture

Strategy

Other resources

This course is similar in content to the popular "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement" taught in locations all across the U.S.

What past students have said about this course

"I see the importance of missions with new eyes."

"I felt very connected to the material."
 
Writing
Standards		Most courses at SNU contain a writing component.
I expect students to produce written work that is focused, well developed, organized and relatively free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors.
Papers falling short of this standard will not be graded. That work will be returned to the students for further revision and resubmission.
See my writing checklist.

Let's sing!

NextIntro to Missions class may often start with the class singing a chorus in another language. [ read more ]

Christian missions information on the world-wide web

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