SGC Panama March 2010

Welcome to the web page for the School of Gospel Contextualization.

Contextualizing the Gospel puts the truth of God into the hands of oral cultures, which comprise 70% of the world’s population. Helping encourage an indigenous church, as opposed to duplicating a Western model, will cause indigenous leaders to rise up and have the perfect tools to evangelize and disciple their own people. They will also know who God is and created them to be and have the opportunity to become cross-cultural missionaries themselves.

This course is designed for the student who has a heart to make the True God known to any people group and desires the tools to help them in this task. Students will learn many different methods and strategies to communicate the Gospel to, specifically, non-western people groups.

Topics will include: redeeming indigenous arts, using mass media in cross-cultural settings, contextualization of the arts in world religions, anthropological studies as well as ethnographic methods, applied ethnomusicology, running a song-writing workshop, oral storytelling, and others. The 3 month course is comprised of 10 weeks of in-class training as well as 2 weeks of “hands-on” training among 2 different indigenous people groups of Panama.

The course is designed to give students an introduction to many different tools that can be used in frontier missions, tribal peoples, urban settings and many other contexts to communicate the Gospel so that it is fully understood in the cultural context of the people.

The one prerequisite is to have completed a Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training School before the starting dates of the school.  The full course is worth 22 credits as a School of Missions registered as CCM 322/323 in the University of the Nations.