ACCESS weekend seminars challenge and educate local churches to move to the next level with their current missions strategy and learn how to better care for their global workers so they may more effectively partner with them on the field. Local churches will interact with mission leaders and discover ways of raising the bar of their mission endeavors and discover realistic, implementable starting points.
ACCESS coaching helps churches engage more effectively in cross-cultural work and draw on their unique positioning and resources. Whether you’re building a program from the ground up or you’ve been involved in cross-cultural work for decades, ACCESS can help you leverage your church’s resources for greater cross-cultural impact and congregational engagement. TRAIN offers ACCESS coaching in 1 or 2-day formats on Fridays and/or Saturdays, and our facilitators can preach on Sunday if requested.
God has given people, experiences, and resources to your church to impact the nations in a particular way. Does your current missions strategy reflect the call and the gifts God has given you? Through ACCESS coaching (Assisting and Coaching Churches to Effectively Send and Sustain), we will help you evaluate your current strategies and develop structures and processes that strengthen your effectiveness in cross-cultural missions.
ACCESS is mobile and can be held at any location that is convenient for you. This enables more people from your church to participate and learn together. Prior to the days together, we’ll interview pastors and missions leaders from your church and gather insight about your current missions involvement and strategies. Using this information, we’ll tailor the weelemd to fit your unique goals to help you go from where you are to where you want to be. ACCESS includes include personalized content, interactive discussions, and practical tools for implementing what you learn. We also guide you to resources that assist with future growth.
ACCESS: Strategy
This module is the foundation and pre-requisite for all other ACCESS seminars. Through “Strategy,” we coach churches in defining, developing, and refining their cross-cultural missions strategies. Whether you have a longstanding missions program or are just getting started, we can help you align your resources with the vision and gifts God has given you. During Strategy modules, you’ll discover what God has uniquely positioned your church to do and form strategies for putting that mission into action.
ACCESS: Sending Church
We believe missions agencies serve an important role in connecting cross-cultural workers with the nations they serve, and we believe the local church plays a central role in global missions. In “Sending Church” modules we help churches understand God’s heart for the nations and His desire to work through local churches to proclaim the gospel around the world. We’ll equip you to identify, encourage, and equip cross-cultural workers in your congregation and to partner effectively with their sending agencies.
ACCESS: Care for Global Workers
More than 70% of all global workers who return "home" prematurely leave the field for preventable reasons. In “Caring for Global Workers” modules, we equip churches to build missionary care teams that are better positioned to prevent these premature departures and provide for flourishing workers. You’ll learn how to form proactive, intentional sending teams that are aware of the hardships and realities of cross-cultural work. We’ll help prepare you to care for cross-cultural workers over the long haul and welcome them back with dignifty in seasons of re-entry.
ACCESS: Partnering with Nationals
Nationals know their culture and language better than anyone else, and they’re capable of making a long-term kingdom investment in the places they live. How can we in the West develop intentional, forward-looking partnerships with such believers? In “Partnering with Nationals” modules, we help churches develop processes that benefit everyone involved. You'll discover new ways to partner with national believers on the ground and to steward those partnerships wisely.
ACCESS: Engaging Internationals
More than 80% of international students who come to the US will never set foot in an American home. Many churches are eager to change those numbers, but the biggest challenge is often knowing where to begin. In “Engaging Internationals” modules, we train churches to mobilize their people to engage with the internationals God has brought to our backyards. Through looking at God’s heart for the foreigner and the stranger among us, your congregation will discover ways to grow in their own concern for these populations and honoring ways to form lasting and meaningful friendships.
DATES
Dates:
Scheduled with your
Church
500 or fewer people
$1500
500 - 999 people
$2000
1000 - 1999 people
$2500
2000 or more people
$3000
In ACCESS coaching, a team of TRAIN church-coaching facilitators comes to your church to connect with your leaders. Details about typical arrangements can be found in the preliminary questionnaire form. TRAIN asks the church to arrange for or cover the cost for facilitator's travel and lodging. Please contact us with any questions.
I really valued TRAIN International’s coaching program. I would do it again and recommend it to other missionaries or people involved in ministry. I think it is very beneficial to use the coaching services as soon as you can after attending pre-field training because of how well the programs can complement each other. It takes you a step further so that you can grow in whatever areas you think need more development. Additionally, the sincerity and patience that my coach had throughout our time was really appreciated.
There were so many helpful things about the coaching process for me. I appreciated that the readings were brief and helpful, and the exercises really guided me as I explored my own thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, though, I needed a safe space and person to debrief my thoughts with and process out loud. My coach was an excellent fit for me personally - able to relate and speak into the "missions" part of my life, which is really central to who I am and the challenges I am facing, but also able to put on his "Spiritual Direction Hat" when the moment called for it. My coaching experience wouldn't have been so fruitful if he wasn't able to meet me in all of those places.
I came into the coaching process needing a lot of God's clarity about the future. Through my TRAIN coach’s attentiveness to the Spirit, giftedness in listening, and great care in asking questions that prompted me to action, I felt like I could seek the Lord for answers in deeper and more beautiful ways. Through coaching, I not only received clarity about the future, but God also used the process to root out fears and lies that were keeping me from being fully able to step into who God created me to be.
This ACCESS coaching has gone beyond my expectations. So much information and freedom to adjust and fit our personal needs where we are as a church. With the trainers having been on the field themselves, serving on teams coaching global workers, and working in church contexts, it felt like they could speak so directly with wisdom for where we find ourselves and where we want to go. Great job, A+!
I see and firmly believe now having been on the field for six months, ORIENT training greatly helped my marriage, my field expectations, and my cultural awareness. It has helped us navigate through some of our team conflict without becoming discouraged or overwhelmed. Thank you for everything!
It was so great that at TRAIN you have youth and children's tracks in ABIDE that allowed our kids to be near to us and to also have other adults pouring into their lives! We wanted to be sure our whole family could debrief, so thank you!
Honestly, probably the most crucial part of ORIENT for me were your spiritual formation topics. It was more helpful than I can say to be totally centered on God before I left for the field. It is so easy to get distracted and unfocused, and I don't know where I would be without that time at ORIENT.
ABIDE provided a training and processing opportunity that I didn't know I needed. It was a blessing to hear from and be heard by facilitators who had been where we are and could help guide us forward as we work through furlough and re-entry. Thank you!
TRAIN's ACCESS coaching was full of great material and excellent presentation. Even better than expected! You did a really good job of generating enthusiasm for missions for our leadership and our whole church. We'll be discussing and unpacking some of the strategic building blocks you gave us.
You could say that our missions team had become stuck in some of our ways for some time. Thank you, your ACCESS coaching helped breathe new life into our whole leadership and church.
Wow, just wow! This was one of the best and most formitive experiences of my life! Thank you TRAIN International for the amazing training!! I feel equipped and ready for the field! Also the people I met through this training are some of the most Christ-like people I have ever met! Thanks again for setting me and everyone else up for success!
At ABIDE, we were given the gift of time, listening ears and attentive hearts. The TRAIN staff had built such an intentional time for us that we could really process and unpack, the stuff we knew we needed to and some things we didn't realize until we paused long enough. The food was amazing, the setting was peaceful and really pretty, and we feel like we made connections and friends we’ll take with us.
Our experience with TRAIN International has been solid. They offer quality trainings, reasonably priced, by a staff team that listen well and care deeply. We highly recommend them for the strengthening of missionaries.
As a smaller sending organization, we are very grateful to have a resource like TRAIN International for our staff preparing for a cross-cultural move. We find the in-depth trainings deeply personal. Our workers are challenged and encouraged, a definite benefit for their pre-field preparation.
We love working with TRAIN International and are happy to send our workers to their excellent trainings. Our people have received top notch training at a great price. We praise God for their ministry!
