Reflections and resources for lifelong learning for missionaries
How do you evaluate the effectiveness of our training? This has been a question that we are still seeking to answer in SEND U. One realization that I have come to in the past few years is that asking the participants how well they liked the training is not enough of a measure. We regularly …
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Bertha and I are on a short home service, and so I am not quite as involved in SEND U activities for the next month or two. But in July, I was back in Farmington to help lead our 2011 Member Orientation Program. Twelve participants came from Poland, Austria and the USA. We were …
Continue reading Spiritual Formation highlights training for new missionaries
We are now in our third week of the online course for SEND team leaders. This week we are working on our job descriptions, after having discussed the essential tasks of a leader and the SEND Team Leader Profile in the previous two weeks. I have been delighted to see 16 team leaders from many different …
Continue reading Online training for team leaders in Week Three
The SEND summer 2010 Candidate Orientation Program (COP) and Member Orientation Program (MOP) are now history, and after 7 weeks in North America, we are now back in Kiev, Ukraine. While in Michigan at our international office where the training programs were hosted, I enjoyed getting to know two great groups of new SEND missionaries …
Continue reading Pre-field training is too good to be restricted to new missionaries
One of the projects we are working on these days is determining the objectives for MOP (SEND's Member Orientation Program). The facilitators for the various sessions at MOP have submitted their objectives for their individual sessions, but it seems to us that just as important, if not more important, are SEND's overall objectives for …
Continue reading What does a new missionary need to learn before they leave for the field?
