Text Box: Distinctives
Learn from each other, Casas Global Outreach Staff, and full-time missionaries
Go at a sustainable pace 
Choose learning experiences that happen outside the group; support and share together inside the group
Renew your participation one semester at a time (spring, fall)
Text Box: Proposed simple learning experiences
go through missing pieces of Casas Global Outreach process - baptism, church membership, etc.
become involved in the leadership of a Bible Fellowship
make friends with an international student or refugee
take field trips—Corazón Ministries, refugee ministry, Sonora (Lightning Trip)
study a least-reached people group; prepare a strategy for reaching them
take SHAPE - Casas core class
take Principles of Spiritual Growth - Casas core class
go to an ACMC or Missionary Care Conference
help with the Casas Global Outreach Street Fair
participate in the annual or biennial Cross-Cultural Training
read a recommended key book
befriend a Casas missionary

Proposed deeper learning experiences

· go on or help lead a Global Team (passport, shots, training, going)

· be part of the Casas Global Outreach Street Fair core team

· lead a local ministry/global trip

· take a class in the language of another culture

· start a new Bible Fellowship class or small group

· mentor a new leader for a local ministry or global  trip

· mentor a new member of this group

· turn in all application materials for full-time service

· attend candidate training such as at IMB MLC

· raise support to be a full-time global worker

· be commissioned as a full-time global worker

Purpose

Be a relationally-based community of learning and mutual support for Casas people on a journey to becoming full-time cross-cultural missionaries.

An American shares with a Middle Easterner in the Middle East (International Mission Board photo)

Contact: 

Scott 878-1146