The three-month lecture phase provides training in strategic missions thinking. Topics include:

• The biblical basis and history of missions
• Cultural anthropology for missions
• People group research
• Foundations and strategies of church planting
• Cross-cultural communication and contextualization
• Discovering worldviews
• The character of a frontier missionary
• Principles of language acquisition
• Leadership development in missions
• Frontier Missions and Community development
• Team work and member care