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The Mission Society held its annual H.T. and Alice Maclin Mission Training Institute on June 29 – July 11, 2015 in India.

Mission Society staff, new missionaries, and Indian Christians from all over the country came together for 13 days of training and fellowship. The attendees included eight Mission Society missionaries, eight GreenLight: Gateway participants, and more than 40 Christian ministers from India.

“We offer our cross-cultural training to Americans and persons from other parts of the world alike. Time and time again we receive positive feedback, especially on our emphasis on incarnational methodology, listening (rather than telling) as a starting point, our discipleship emphasis, and the innovative approaches to reaching people from other religious backgrounds that we teach. We seek for our training to be both informational and experiential, hopefully resulting in a transformational experience that will be multiplied into the lives of others,” said the Rev. Frank Decker, vice president for mission training and development.

The sessions were taught by Mission Society staff members and missionaries, as well as Indian missiologists and church leaders. Lessons included cross-cultural challenges, discipleship, spiritual conflict, core ministry strategies, preparedness, the Insider movement, cell group ministry, mission shock, the theology of mission, spiritual warfare, and prayer.

The attendees also watched several movies that dealt with cross-cultural communication and visited nearby communities to practice the cultural observation skills they were learning.

These newly trained missionaries will serve in various locations around the globe.