Missions
Beulah Heights University recognizes that the central world-wide purpose of the church today is to know Christ and make Him known to the “uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8b). As the ministry training arm of the local church, BHU prepares godly men and women to be sent on maximum impact short-term missions overseas. The missiological training received at BHU equips people with the vision, strategy and cultural sensitivity needed for effective ministry in other cultures.
MOST - Summer 2010
THE BHU ADVANTAGE
- BHU provides a strong mission minor: 18 credit hours in missions courses are required. These include course credit for a supervised overseas short-term mission. See the list of course choices under “Launch Pad” below.
- Regardless of degree program, all BHU graduates are required to complete a core missions course called Contextualization of the Gospel.
- Students participate in world missions projects through the chapel offerings. Tons of grain shipped to famine-stricken areas, shoes for orphanage children, and computers for schoolrooms have resulted from recent chapel offerings.
- Annually, BHU-approved teams go overseas for relief work, medical missions, and pastor training conferences. Some of the recent places of service include Brazil, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- BHU operates for Atlanta area churches the internationally known hands-on missions training seminar called MOST (Missions Overseas Short Term), held in one week and over three weekends. Those who complete the 50-hour basic intensive training program earn a certificate of training in short term missions. It is open for enrollment by non-students.
THE MOST SERVICE PROGRAM OF BEULAH HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY
In 1994, the college inaugurated a missions training service for local churches who were sending out short-term teams. It is called M.O.S.T. (Missions Overseas Short Term). Its founding director, Dr. Doug Chatham, brought together a “think tank” of expert missions practitioners who became a permanent steering committee. These practitioners are career missionaries, missions directors in large churches, ethnic group evangelists, heads of agencies, and heads of overseas churches.
The MOST program functions in three major areas:
- First: A primary function of the MOST service program is the annual on-campus seminar that targets Atlanta area church missions directors and pastors, whether students at BHU or not. Over twenty experts are engaged to provide the intensive cross-cultural “boot camp” learning program for which a certificate of training in short-term missions is awarded. It involves cutting-edge presentations, conversational language workshops, and participation in local ethnic group worship services. Students who take this training for course credit as a prerequisite may also earn course credit for subsequently going on a short term missions team under an approved missionary leader.
- Second: custom-designed MOST seminars called “Mini-MOSTs” are carried out in the facilities of local churches in Georgia and in other states across the Southeast. The target group is the missions leadership and teams that are preparing to go on short term missions into specific cultures. These abbreviated MOST seminars are provided at no cost to the local church as a service ministry of Beulah Heights University.
- Third: Pastor training seminars are held annually in various countries overseas, usually in connection with medical or relief mission team work. Persons comprising these teams must have previously taken the MOST training. The seminars are held in each overseas location three times over the space of three to five years. The second seminar uses as some of its trainers the pastors who attended the first seminar. The third seminar is staffed entirely of national pastors who were trained in the first or second seminar. The BHU MOST team assumes a coaching role in the third and successive seminars, and continues to provide the training material and the highly valued certificates of completion from Beulah Heights University.
Your “Launch Pad” for a Career in World Missions
Whether you envision the work of mission director in a local church, or the work of a career missions catalyst serving overseas, BHU can be your starting point – your “launch pad.” Here is a list of the 18 course offerings in missions at Beulah Heights University. For full descriptions, see the Missions section of the university catalog, available on this web site.
Mi 430 Applied Anthropology, Mi 272 Approaches to Islam, Mi 259 Bible in a Cross-cultural Perspective, Mi 101 Careers in Missions, Mi 428 Comparative Religions and Cults, Mi 258 Creating a Passion of Missions, Mi 275 Ministering Cross-Culturally, Mi 388 Missiological Education for the 21st Century, Mi 425 Missionary Advance Through the Centuries, Mi 114 Missionary Methods, Mi 386 Missions Administration, Mi 255 MOST 1, Mi 257 MOST 2, Mi 256 MOST Field Trip, Mi 387 Planting Indigenous Churches, Mi 385 Theology of Cross-cultural Ministry, Mi 265 Unreached People Groups.
For information on current course offerings, contact:
Dr. Jose Pezini - Telephone 404-627-2681, Ext. 332 - E-mail jose.pezini@beulah.org
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MOST Training Conference May 13-15, 2010
Beulah Heights University Campus
Hours
Thursday 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Friday 8:00 AM-3:00 PM/7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Saturday 8 AM -12:30 PM
Fee: $50 (checks payable to BHU, cash and credit cards accepted, payments may be turned into the BHU Business Office, refundable through May 12, 2010)
To register stop by the faculty office and complete a registration form.
Trips for 2010 hosted by MOST
Mission Trip to Honduras
May 28 – June 5, 2010
Cost: $1150 which includes round trip Airfare by Delta, Food, Accommodation,
Ground transportation and other miscellaneous expenses.
Group size: 5 – 10 persons
Missions opportunities: The group will be staying in the beautiful Mission Center of the Whitefields Ministries at La Ceiba and work with the Pastor Allen and Vicky Skelton (founders of Whitefields Ministries) among the children, youth and women in a village
where Pastor Allen is building houses for the poorest of the poor. Also teaching English as well as the Gospels to the Elementary / Primary School children in La Ceiba area and ministry in the elderly homes.
Pre-requisite Qualification: Must be a Graduate of MOST program. If not, one can attend this year’s MOST program from May 13 – 15. Also, must have a valid U.S. passport.
For more information, please contact the Group Leader:
Pradeep Das, Director of Library pradeep.das@beulah.org
Mission Trip to Kenya
July 30-August 16, 2010
Cost: $2800-$3000, includes airfare, lodging, food and ground transport
Host: Bishop Zachariah Shahasi
Ministry opportunities in and around Nakuru, Kenya: Leadership training, women’s ministry, children’s ministry, youth ministry, medical assistance, preaching assignments for church, convention, seminar and revival meetings, open air crusades and more.
Group size: 5-10 persons
Pre-requisite Qualification: Must be a Graduate of the MOST program. If not, one can attend this year’s MOST May 13-15. Also, must have a valid U.S. Passport.
For more information, contact team leader:
Bishop Zachariah Shahasi
Contact information:
Phone 678-334-0121
Email:bishopshahasi.4squarekenya@gmail.com
Mission Trip to Brazil
August 6-16, 2010
Team Leader: Dr. José Pezini
Destination: Curitiba, Parana State in Brazil
Hosts: BHU Alumni Emilio and Denise Talamonte
Cost: $2000 to $2300, including all airfare, room and board.
Ministry opportunities: Aid and relief work in poverty areas, outreach, church services
Pre-requisites for team membership: US Passport, Brazil Visa, Graduate of MOST program or complete the MOST training on May 13-15, 2010,
Contact for more information:
Gabriela Emilia, Phone 678-992-3831, or Email gabrielaemilia26@hotmail.com
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