Transition Training
Transition Training delivers residential training for living and working in another culture.
In the early 1990's several mission agencies met together to consider how they could pool their expertise and resources to provide pre-field training for their staff. The course is designed to enhance the participants' knowledge in Biblical and missiological reflection by providing practical competency development to facilitate an effective transition to another cultural setting. Transition Training runs over 17 days, and is a live in course for the whole family. The course is neither country nor mission specific.
The benefits of the program are:
- a training program based in experiencial adult learning
- individual learning contracts ensuring maximum gain for all participants
- a team of experienced facilitators drawn from a variety of missions and situations
- community living enabling peer support and interaction
- contact with communities and churches where learning can be pursued and tested
- supervised children's programs, geared to assisting your children's transitions
- the constant updating of methods and materils used
Courses are normally held in Melbourne January and July each year.
Application forms are available from Carol Langsford,
Email: clangsford@globalinteraction.org.au
For more information about the course, please contact the Coordinator, Karen Newnham,
C/- Global Interaction PO Box 273, Hawthorn Vic 3122.
Phone: 03 98194944
The Basis for the Network
MI Members ascribe to the EA Statement of Faith and abide by the MI Regulations and Standards Statement.
History of the Network
Missions Interlink was established in 1986 at a national forum of evangelical missions in Canberra. It was considered expedient, conformable to the will of God, expressive of discipleship to the Lord Jesus Christ, and a step towards facilitating fulfilment of His great Commission, to constitute an Australian Commission of evangelical missions.
However, state missions commissions had existed in most states for many years, and until 2005 continued to maintain their own identities and separate memberships, and were regarded as member agencies of the national body in their own right.
How Missions Interlink is Organised
The national office of Missions Interlink is responsible for all membership enquiries, national events, networks and ministries, and is a central point for information and resources for its members.
The state networks of MI are also very active, providing members within each state with regular opportunities to network, and pray for, and encourage each other . They are also engaged in working together to promote and mobilise for mission through collaborative activities.
