Serve
Meet refugee neighbors while participating in English, sewing, kids, and other Training Center ministries.
Missionary Training Residency
Practice before you go.
Prepare for long-term cross-cultural ministry through guided training, real relationships, peer accountability, and mentorship among unreached refugee neighbors in Phoenix.
Formation through practice
Connect, learn, practice, and process.
The residency is designed for people seriously exploring missionary team service locally or globally. Joining a team afterward is not required, but it is the program’s focus.
Live nearby
Share life in a diverse neighborhood and practice hospitality through ordinary relationships.
Train
Learn cross-cultural ministry principles from experienced missionaries and trainers.
Be mentored
Process what you are learning with a missionary who can coach practice, growth, and calling.
Training curriculum
Preparation for the whole missionary.
Class sessions and field experience address ministry skills, team health, spiritual formation, and the realities of sustainable cross-cultural life.
Identity as a missionary
Calling, responsibility of the sent, creative access, security, and a personal 3D statement.
Understanding unreached people
People-group research, culture and worldview, adaptation, and contextualization.
Serving as a team
Team health, philosophy of effective ministry, conflict resolution, and contingency planning.
Personal formation
Soul care, spiritual warfare, play and rest, and a personal spiritual growth plan.
Missionary tools
Discovery Bible Study, storytelling, house church, language learning, and prayer strategy.
Long-term sustainability
Third-culture adjustment, family health, adaptation, and partnership with the Church.
Where this can lead
Move toward service with tested expectations.
Residents finish with field experience, practical tools, greater self-awareness, and trusted mentors who can help them evaluate readiness for a local or global missionary team.
Explore long-term rolesThe residency combines
- Classroom learning
- Weekly ministry practice
- Peer accountability
- Individual coaching and mentoring
Still discerning?
Begin with an internship.
If you are exploring mission but not ready for extended pre-field training, an immersive internship may be the better next step.
Prepare before deployment