Understand how your home culture, the Bible culture, and the host culture interact using the Three-Culture Model. Review the meaning of the words disciple and discipleship in cross-cultural contexts. Learn practical suggestions on how to appropriately converse with and relate to people from other cultures, specifically as it relates to cross-cultural discipleship.

During your time abroad, you will experience diverse cultures while engaging and interacting with people who may have vastly different worldviews than your own. This training module will guide you through how to competently enter into new cross-cultural situations. While reviewing your individualized Cultural Intelligence Report, identify personal areas of strength and areas for improvement in cross-cultural interactions as we explore the four CQ capabilities: Drive, Knowledge, Strategy, and Action.

When you’re in a new cross-cultural setting where your routine and environment are different from the norm, it often becomes really difficult to maintain your normal level of spiritual vitality. This training focuses on ways to proactively prepare yourself and implement healthy spiritual practices before you leave. It also instructs you on how to combat spiritual warfare while traveling and strengthen your spiritual vitality along the way.

In this training, learn to follow practical health and safety practices throughout all international travel. This training includes valuable tips for insect and weather protection, ways to prevent dehydration, how to ensure water purity, and briefly review bacteria and parasites that Americans commonly come into contact with while traveling internationally.

Learn guidelines and tips to help ensure your safety while traveling abroad. The information provided in this training will help you prepare for travel and be a wise traveler while abroad. We will cover important contact information, how to manage specific safety concerns, as well as practical ways to minimize risk while traveling.

Debriefing your experiences abroad is an essential part of all international travel. Learn how to manage your expectations for the return home by recognizing what re-entry stress and reverse culture shock are, that your time abroad has developed new attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, and how to implement what you have learned while staying involved with the host culture. Additionally, this resource will guide you through how to share about your experiences in a way that others can relate to.