Intercultural Training

The Tyndale Intercultural Ministry Centre (TIM) offers a variety of intercultural training opportunities directly and through TIM centre partners:

Assessment Tools

• Church Openness to Welcoming New Immigrants (in co-operation with WorldVision)
• Mapping your Community Context 
• Intercultural Readiness Check
• Intercultural Development Inventory

Training (Seminars & Courses)

• Short Term Missions training for Intercultural training effectiveness

Too often we have a dichotomized view of global mission that separates home missions from overseas missions. In this global world we believe that mission begins on your doorstep and extends to the ends of the earth. Short-term mission training should not be viewed as training Christians for a two week experience overseas. Instead it should be understood as training for a life time of engagement in intercultural ministry. TIM Centre can provide a short-term mission training program specifically designed for your needs and bring it to your church location.

• The Missional Church: Becoming Intentionally Intercultural

This 10 hour seminar is designed to help Christians reflect on what it means to be “missional” in our urban multi-cultural context. You will have an opportunity reflect on how you have been shaped by culture and how that impacts how you view others. You will gain insights and develop skills on how to build effective relationships with the goal of sharing the gospel through word and deed in our multi-cultural context.

• Understanding Your Neighbours: Religious Worldviews

We live in a context where there is no longer one cultural way of viewing and interpreting life. For example, religious worldview assumptions are complex and have significant variety even within the same religious tradition. Before we can communicate effectively we “must seek to understand in order to be understood”. This seminar will introduce you to major religious worldviews and how they impacts beliefs, values and behaviour.

• Mini Perspectives on Global Mission

This course can be designed and brought to your church over a short period of time. The goal is to introduce you to the biblical, historical, cultural and strategic nature of global mission. This course is also offered in Spanish.

• Diploma for Diaspora Leaders: Foundations in Missional Ministry & Church Leadership

One of the challenges facing immigrant church leaders, is how to find training that is accessible, affordable, and recognized for credentialing leaders to serve in pastoral ministry within their church affiliation. The Foundations in Missional Ministry & Church Leadership diploma trains immigrant church leaders to be certified by the denominations partnering with the TIM Centre.

Ethno – Web Radio

This partnership with HCJB radio is an opportunity for immigrant leaders to record ministry materials in a professional recording studio. Recordings will be made in multiple languages with the goal of reaching out with the good news to people on our doorstep and around the world.

For more information on any of these resources contact the TIM centre.