Lifelong Learning

Frontiers believes that some of the most effective training occurs after workers arrive on the field, discover their weaknesses, and seek help from team members. No classroom experience can completely prepare you for ministry in a Muslim country. Though some learning must happen prior to serving overseas with Frontiers, your learning will only increase after your arrival overseas as you start learning language(s) and experiencing another culture.

Frontiers uses websites, email forum discussions, and regional events to offer its workers continual opportunities to upgrade their skills and gain access to experienced coaches.

Some of the areas in which our workers have been pursuing and receiving ongoing training are:

• Peacemaking – Your Team and Beyond
• Outreach to Muslim Women with Storytelling Methods
• How to Plant the Good News of Jesus in an Oral Culture
• Language Learning
• Developing Your Spiritual Disciplines

In addition, Frontiers has been collecting data from its workers and members of other agencies to identify fruitful practices. Frontiers workers can now learn answers to questions like:

1. What are some vital factors that nearly all fruitful ministries share in common as they have shared the message of Jesus with Muslims?
2. What are some practices that impede the progress of Muslim-born believers taking responsibility for spreading their faith?

Frontiers recently compiled some of these findings in its book, Fruitful Practices. We are constantly learning more about what our workers in the field are discovering so we can help new workers avoid past mistakes and approach their ministry among Muslims with wisdom.