MISSIONARY TRAINING PROGRAMME

 

IN SERVICE TRAINING – MISSIONARY APPRENTICESHIP

If you are serious about missions, and if you want to make the Great Commission your supreme ambition, you should prayerfully consider applying for Frontline Fellowship’s in-service missionary training programme.

WHY MISSIONARY APPRENTICESHIP?

All too many rush into short term missions without adequate training in evangelism or cross cultural missions, without understanding the various religions and worldviews they will have to encounter and without an effective grasp of tried and field tested missionary strategy and tactics. On the other hand others get tied up in years of academic studies far removed from the hard realities of the mission fields and few end up actually persevering and succeeding in a missionary career. The attrition rate of first term missionary volunteers giving up is destabilizing missions worldwide. We need character development and in service apprenticeship. Frontline Fellowship offers a practical, tried and tested balance between training and outreach.

WHAT IS FRONTLINE FELLOWSHIP?

Frontline Fellowship is an indigenous African mission based in Cape Town South Africa. For over 24 years Frontline Fellowship has pioneered missionary outreaches in restricted access areas and to neglected people groups in Africa. Our priorities are Leadership Training, Literature Distribution and Love in Action.

WHO DIRECTS THE MISSIONARY TRAINING PROGRAMME?

The Missionary Training Programme is under the personal supervision of veteran African missionary Dr. Peter Hammond – the Founder and Director of Frontline Fellowship. Rev. Hammond is the author of, amongst others, The Greatest Century of Missions, the Discipleship Handbook, Faith Under Fire in Sudan, Putting Feet to Your Faith and the Great Commission Manual. Since 1982 Peter Hammond has pioneered missions to Mozambique, Angola and Sudan. He has ministered in 28 countries on four continents.

Dr. Hammond has designed numerous leadership training programmes, some of which have been adopted by Christian universities and Bible Colleges. He has developed the Discipleship Training Course, the Biblical Worldview Summit, the Great Commission Course, the Muslim Evangelism Workshop and The Reformation Celebration . Peter is regularly involved in personal, literature, film evangelism and preaching in some of the most neglected areas, in the streets of squatter camps, inner city ghettos, in prisons, military bases and hospitals.

WHAT DOES THE MISSIONARY TRAINING PROGRAMME INVOLVE?

Those who sign up for Frontline Fellowship’s Missionary Training Programme will receive a year of in-service missionary apprenticeship. This will include a library programme with book reports required, intensive lectures with written exams required, numerous practicals with personal evaluations given, many outreaches and varied opportunities for practical missionary service.

The MTP will be intensive and demanding. For much of the time the Trainee will be based at Livingstone House, the missionary headquarters of Frontline Fellowship. At other times the Trainee will be at courses and conferences or based at other mission stations. The Trainee will be challenged, instructed, inspired, and involved in a wide variety of tasks ranging from the physical and mundane to the spiritual and demanding. The programme is designed to stretch minds and muscles and to deepen the devotional life of the Trainee. We give high priority to character development in order to produce dedicated, dependable, disciples who will improvise, adapt and overcome all obstacles and opposition to complete their mission to the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

At the successful conclusion of the MTP year the Trainee will be recognised as a Missionary Field Worker and receive a certificate from Frontline Fellowship. If the written book reports and assignments are satisfactorily completed, the Trainee could also receive a certificate from the William Carey Bible Institute as well.

WHEN DOES THE MISSIONARY TRAINING BEGIN:

The essential selection and training course which all trainees for the MTP must first complete is the Great Commission Course (GCC) held in Cape Town each year – mid year. (The next GCC is July 2007).

WHAT DOES THE MTP COST?

The MTP will cost $420 for the GCC and a further $1800 for the rest of the year’s in-service training. This will involve accommodation, and transport within South Africa. It will also include numerous textbooks and manuals and access to the William Carey Bible Institute library and audio resources. (Of course air tickets to and from Cape Town will be an additional expense, as will any incidentals or personal expenses. Trainees will also be expected to arrive equipped with basic missionary equipment: boots, backpack, sleeping bag, hat, sunscreen, insect repellent, mosquito net, etc. Should any of these items be hard to obtain at home, they can easily be purchased in Cape Town). The cost for the MTP can be paid in monthly or quarterly installments, with post dated cheques, or by direct deposit or wire transfer.

HOW CAN I APPLY FOR THE MTP?

 

1. Complete an Application Form for Frontline Fellowship (available upon request from Frontline Fellowship, P O Box 74, Newlands 7725, Cape Town, South Africa or admin@frontline.org.za or from In Touch Mission International in Arizona Tel.: 1-888-918-4100, or you can download it from www.frontline.org.za under The Mission / About Us).
2. Obtain at least two letters of recommendation – one of which must be from your pastor – and include these with your application.
3. Attend the next Great Commission Course in Cape Town.

AFTER COMPLETING THE MTP WILL THERE BE FURTHER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES?

Yes! The MTP is the beginning. Many opportunities for further training and service will be available to those who successfully complete the MTP. As a Missionary Field Worker you could then apply for a further one, two or three year in-service training programme which would involve more field outreaches along with further study with the William Carey Bible Institute. Alternatively you could apply for any other mission or Bible College. The MTP will practically prepare you for further effective missionary study and service – whether with our mission or any other.

STEPS TO MISSIONARY STUDY AND SERVICE

1. ENQUIRER: Visit the www.frontline.org.za website. Request a package of information from admin@frontline.org.za; Frontline Fellowship, P O Box 74, Newlands 7725, Cape Town, South Africa (or in the USA tel.: 1-888-918-4100).

2. APPLICANT: Request or download an Application Form and complete it. Obtain References / Letters of Recommendation from your pastor and others who know you well, such as your employer or principal. Send the Application Form and Letters of Recommendation to FF, by post (and e-mail or fax if urgent).

3. CANDIDATE: Attend the next Great Commission Course in Cape Town.

4. TRAINEE: Commit to a year in-service missionary apprenticeship.

5. MISSIONARY FIELD WORKER: After graduating from the missionary training programme you can sign up for a further two to three years and qualify as a Missionary through practical service and academic studies.

6. MISSIONARY: Once you’ve successfully completed all the courses, book reports, assignments, practicals, field trips, outreaches and exams you will be graduated from the William Carey Bible Institute with a Diploma in Missions and be commissioned as a Missionary of Frontline Fellowship.

For further information:

Frontline Fellowship

P O Box 74, Newlands, 7725, Cape Town, South Africa, E-Mail: admin@frontline.org.za, Website: www.frontline.org.za

Frontline Fellowship Application Form (PDF download)