Exploring Mission is a course that will help you find your place in God’s global vision.
Exploring Mission recognises that you are already living, learning and working in intercultural contexts. It’s a lived experience.
We also recognise that our world is rapidly changing and therefore intercultural mission must keep pace. An outdated approach to global mission simply will not cut it!
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What is Exploring Mission?
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Who is Exploring Mission for?
Exploring Mission is for anyone who wants to explore questions such as:
- What is God doing in the world?
- What is my role in God’s mission?
- What does intercultural mission in Australia look like?
- Where is God calling me now?
- How can I be trained and equipped for what God has for me in the future?
What will I learn?
Exploring Mission is for people who want to understand and support global missions, for people considering becoming intercultural team members in the future, and for anyone who wants to better engage in intercultural ministry in their local neighbourhoods and suburbs.
Who will be teaching the course?
This course is facilitated by Baptist Mission Australia, the global mission arm of the Australian Baptist church.
Exploring Mission is a non-award course. Participants who successfully complete all units will receive an internal certificate from Baptist Mission Australia.
About the course
Exploring Mission is a three unit course, developed to help you explore how God is calling you to engage in intercultural mission. It involves engaging with a wide range of issues in theology, mission, context, culture and the Gospel.
Exploring Mission is experienced as an online learning community that gathers from around Australia and beyond, with a common heart to grow in our participation in God’s mission.
2027 course dates
Unit 1
Mission 101
- Tue 2 Feb: Mission from Everywhere to Everywhere
- Tue 9 Feb: Building Intercultural Relationships
- Tue 16 Feb: Sharing the Gospel and Building Faith Communities in Ways that Make Sense
- Tue 23 Feb: Holistic Mission – Word and Deed Mission
- Tue 2 Mar: Christ’s Way of Humility – Service and Empowerment in Mission
Unit 2
Shaped for Mission
- Tue 4 May: Being Formed for Mission – An Introduction to Spiritual Formation for Mission
- Tue 11 May: Building Roots and Foundations in the Good New
- Tue 18 May: Shaped in the Secret Places – Mountains, Wilderness and Cupboards.
- Tue 25 May: Shaped by Relationships and Community Within the Church and on Mission
- Tue 1 June: Your Context and Spiritual Formation
Unit 3
The Missional Message of the Bible
- Tue 3 Aug: Mission to a Beautiful but Broken World (Genesis 1-11)
- Tue 10 Aug: Calling, Failure and Promise (Genesis 12 – Malachi)
- Tue 17 Aug: The Mission of the Messiah (The Gospels)
- Tue 24 Aug: The Mission Continues Through the Peoples of the Messiah (Luke and the Epistles)
- Tue 31 Aug: The Return of the King (Revelation and others)
Class times
Exploring Mission is an online course held via Zoom on Tuesday evenings from 7:00–8:30pm (AEST/ AEDT).
Add to your experience
Exploring Mission participants will be invited to join a small number of optional events each year, such as:
- Dinner with a Baptist Mission Australia intercultural team member
- Coffees with Baptist Mission Australia Mobilisers or State Leaders
- Discernment Weekend
- Conferences
Mentoring or Spiritual Direction is recommended, especially for the Spiritual Formation for Mission unit.