Field Life

Welcome to the Field Life course! This course will help prepare you for the challenges of life on the field. It covers topics such as:

• Managing stress and staying healthy. Missionaries face unique challenges that can lead to higher stress levels than people in their home countries. This lesson will teach you skills for managing stress and becoming intentional about establishing healthy dietary and physical fitness routines.
• Language acquisition. It is important to remember that language learning is not just about learning the language, but also about learning the culture. The two are closely linked, and it is impossible to truly understand one without understanding the other.
• Theology on the field. This lesson will explore three theological topics related to field life and missions: the lies of Satan and preaching the gospel to yourself, sin and resiliency in missions, and Sabbath and rest as it relates to missions.
• Building bridges with supporters. This lesson will focus on building bridges with supporters. The three topics we will cover are: communication, security protocols, and building relationships with donors.

This course is designed to help you prepare for the challenges of life on the field and to build a strong foundation for your ministry. By the end of this course, you will have a better understanding of the unique challenges that missionaries face, and you will have developed skills and strategies for overcoming them. You will also have a deeper understanding of the theology of missions and how it applies to your own life and ministry. Finally, you will have learned how to build bridges with supporters and create a sustainable ministry.

Course Format and Assessment:

There are three lessons in the course and three topics within each lesson. Each topic contains a discussion question that is set up in forum format. Please respond to each question in paragraph format and respond to others where appropriate. We want to cultivate a communal learning environment and If you respond to other’s answers, it is more likely they will do the same for you later on.

Each lesson is followed by a short quiz that will help you review the material. The quizzes will then culminate with an exam at the end of each course, which will combine the quizzes into one comprehensive review of the material for the course.

Time Commitment:

The time investment for each course may vary from person to person, but we estimate that if you read/watch all of the assigned material it will take somewhere between 10-20 hours per lesson and 30-60 hours to complete the course.

Potential Costs for Resources:

We have done our best, where possible, to only include books from the Scribd library. Of course, Scribd may choose to change the selection in their library at any time. When we cannot link to a book in Scribd we link to it in Amazon or some other source.