World Christian Foundations
A good education, you say. But what is a good education? How can you know in advance what is necessary to study? Is it wise – is it possible– to get all your education in advance?
Suppose you could get out into real life after two years of college but be assured that you could continue to study and work at the same time.
Would it not be ideal to work and at the same time take just the right courses to maximize your ministry while getting a solid liberal arts education, an education that would provide a great foundation for further study, a Masters degree or a Ph.D.?
Suppose a group of veteran missionaries and academics sat down and redesigned the university process, building upon all the accepted standards but making it possible to combine work and study—allowing people to get to the field more quickly, without giving up all-important educational goals?
This has happened! This is World Christian Foundations.
The U.S. Center’s academic programs, like the Perspectives Course or the World Christian Foundations curriculum, have achieved the recognition of major seminaries which allow you to enroll directly with them while working on our campus or anywhere in the U.S. or overseas.
In fact, you can begin your studies at home, continue on the field, and earn your degree all in the same program.
Most mission agencies require a “Year-of-Bible.” Our World Christian Foundations curriculum is a “re-engineering” of that, allowing the candidate to get the proper training both before entering the mission field and while serving on it.
By now the Perspectives Study Program has encompassed over 55,000 students, but in some ways a single course like that is merely a band-aid in comparison to what a well-trained mission mobilizer or missionary needs to know. Rather than merely trying to add onto and “patch up” the college and seminary courses which people had already studied, the U. S. Center for World Mission saw the need for a full graduate degree study program that would provide foundational missions training.
The World Christian Foundations study program invades the mainstream curriculum, the legendary “liberal arts” curriculum, and invests it at every point with missions-oriented content and perspective, teaching everything people would normally learn in college and seminary (aside from vocational specialties) and doing so with a broad, 4,000-year global, mission perspective.
Restoring God’s glory is the theme of this 32-semester unit program.
God is the Lord of history but we are locked in a cosmic struggle with the powers of darkness. Through their studies, students begin to understand God’s plan for reestablishing His glory through “general” and “special” revelation, partnering with humans in defeating the Evil One and restoring Creation through Jesus Christ.
This unique curriculum can be studied anywhere in the world with a qualified face-to-face mentor. Northwestern College http://nwc.edu/display/7173 offers the course at the undergraduate level as a degree completion through their Alternative Education department. William Carey International University http://www.wciu.edu/ma offers the curriculum in a graduate education program.
The World Christian Foundations curriculum has recently been re-formatted to fit a degree completion format. This Degree Completion Program has not been adopted by a school yet, so why not offer DCP at your school today? Click here for more info http://www.uscwm.org/degree_completion
World Christian Foundations has just begun an exciting partnership with the Gainesville Fellows Program. Become an intern with the Gainesville Fellows Program and use the WCF curriculum while gaining hands-on missions experience. Click here for more info. http://www.gracefl.org/fellows-program
For more information, contact:
USCWM Mission Training Division
World Christian Foundations
1539 E. Howard St.
Pasadena CA 91104
EMail: wfc@uscwm.org
Phone: (626) 398-2106
