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Missions Opportunities

Rationale

The mission of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s is "to equip leaders to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandments through the local church and its ministries." One of the core values of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is Mission Focus: "We are not here merely to get an education or to give one. We are here to change the world by fulfilling the Great Commission and the Great Commandments through the local church and its ministries." The Global Missions Center located on the campus of our Seminary focuses on this core value in a visible way and serve as a resource for students and churches to fulfill the Great Commission to the far reaches of the world.

The vision of the Global Missions Center is to research effective global mission strategies, train Christians for global missions service, resource global mission Christians, and reach the globally unreached with the gospel. Matthew 4:19 states the Lord’s call: "And He said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.’"

For more information, see the Baptist Press article about the creation of the Global Missions Center at NOBTS.

Purpose

The purpose of the Global Missions Center is to mobilize Christians to impact unreached people groups with the gospel, through the following four initiatives:

• Researching Effective Missions Strategies for Unreached People Groups
  
  The Global Missions Center will encourage the student body and faculty to develop specific strategies for reaching unreached people groups and population segments. The Global Missions Resource Center in the John T. Christian Library plays a vital role in assisting students and others conducting missions research. Strategies completed by students on campus and overseas will be indexed and filed in the Global Missions Resource Center. Missionaries will be encouraged to spend their stateside assignments conducting research and doing further study on our campus.
• Training Christians for Global Missions Service
  
  All students who pursue a basic Master of Divinity degree and many MDiv degrees with specializations are required to take the course, "Introduction to Christian Missions." Every student in the BA in Christian Ministry degree program of Leavell College has a required course, "Evangelism and Missions." A Global Missions Center provides a visible way to integrate classroom experience with a seminary entity dedicated to international missions and to heighten awareness of global missions on our campus.
  
  A key purpose of the Global Missions Center is to train students who are preparing for international missions service. The Global Missions Center will partner with the Providence Learning Center and other entities such as the IMB to offer training events for persons related to international missions. The city of New Orleans provides a wonderful laboratory for doing missions in an intercultural setting.
• Resourcing Global Mission Christians
  
  The Global Missions Center of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary equips students to become global mission Christians. Coordinating the interaction of IMB missionaries and personnel with the seminary community provides an important element of resourcing global mission Christians.
  
  Another aspect of resourcing global mission Christians is the development of a website for the Global Missions Center with information about the center, online resources, and links to other relevant missions websites. The center’s website could provide valuable resources for local churches.
• Reaching the Globally Unreached
  
  Reaching the globally unreached means that all seminary students will be challenged to help local churches become Acts 1:8 churches with a vision to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Those preparing for local church service will be equipped in how to help the local church embrace a biblical global vision of evangelism and missions.
  
  Reaching the globally unreached involves the coordination of seminary sponsored international missions trips and partnerships with overseas missionaries. The Global Missions Center will encourage and coordinate the numerous mission trips taken each year by Seminary students, faculty, and staff. The primary focus of mission trips is the partnership the Seminary has with the IMB team in Moscow, Russia. In addition, faculty and students are involved in a number of other mission trips annually. For more information go to Missions Opportunities.

Leadership Team

Director Dr. Philip Pinckard Associate Professor of Missions, occupying the Owen Cooper Chair of Global Missions
Missions Mobilization Coordinator, and Director of the World Missions Resource Center Dr. Ken Taylor Associate Professor of Missions, occupying the Chester L. Quarles Chair of Urban Missions

Missions, Church Planting, and Evangelism Degrees at NOBTS

• Master of Divinity with specialization in Missions
• Master of Divinity with specialization in Urban Missions
• Master of Divinity with specialization in People Group Strategies
• Master of Divinity with specialization in Evangelistic Church Growth
• Master of Divinity, North American Church Planting track
• Master of Divinity, International Church Planting track
• Master of Arts in Missiology
• Doctor of Ministry -- specializations are offered in Evangelistic Church Growth, Missions and Church Planting, and in Leadership/Administration
• Doctor of Philosophy -- majors are offered in Missions and in Evangelism
• Missions courses at NOBTS
• Church Planting courses at NOBTS
• Evangelism courses at NOBTS
• Discipleship courses at NOBTS

Missions Resources

Please follow the links below for further information about Missions:

• The International Mission Board of the SBC
• The North American Mission Board of the SBC
• Women's Missionary Union of the SBC
• The Leavell Center for Evangelism and Church Health
• The Cecil B. Day Center for Church Planting
• MissionLab New Orleans
• Summer MissionLab (for youth groups)
• Spring Break MissionLab (for high school and collegiate groups)
• Senior Adult MissionLab (for church groups of senior adults)
• Korean Theological Institute
• Online Missions resources -- (including information about other missions organizations, people group studies, anthropology, linguistics, geography, and world religions from the Global Missions Resource Center in the John T. Christian Library)
• Prayer Walk Resources -- The following sites have information about how to do Prayer Walks on Mission trips:
  • http://www.peopleteams.org/miao/prayerwa.htm
  • http://www.missionmacau.org/Prayer/PAssests/Prayer%20Walking.pdf
  • http://www.telleurope.org/Prayer_Walking.htm
  • http://www.waymakers.org/prayerwalking.html
  • http://www.waymakers.org/prayerwalking/howto.html
  • http://www.ewhbc.com/Prayer/Prayer_Walking_GUIDE.htm
  • http://www.onmission.com/Archives/Sept_Oct99/prayer_walking.htm
  • http://www.christianwomentoday.com/prayer/prayawalk.html
  • http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/article_main_page/0,1703,A%253D150101%2526M%253D50022,00.html
  • http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/1476.article
  • http://www.prayertoday.org/prayertraining/2003/prayerwalking.htm
  • http://www.projectbeijing.com/HowToPrayerWalk.aspx
  • http://www.missionmacau.org/Prayer/PAssests/PWHeartPrep.pdf 
•   General Missions Resources:
• • http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/missions.htm - This educational website provides syllabi for nine missions courses and links to additional mission websites through the WabashCenter for Internet Resources.
  • http://www.newlifeministries-nlm.org/bibliographies/bib-missions.htm - This site provides a very lengthy and a very broad bibliography topically organized for ease of use. 
  • http://www.mislinks.org/topics/index.htm - This site is a very large web-based dictionary of terms related to missions ministry providing definitions and further links.
  • http://www.library.yale.edu/div/MissionsResources.htm - This site provides a wealth of links and periodical articles related to Christian missions.

How to Contact the Global Missions Center

• By email -- GlobalMissionsCenter@nobts.edu
• By phone -- 504-282-4455
• By mail -- Global Missions Center, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 3939 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans LA 70126