Purpose

Intercultural Ministry Experience is an integrative part of the LEAD experience, assuming that Christian leadership in a globally-connected age requires skill and savvy in missional and intercultural engagement.   The course sets out to explore leadership gifts for intercultural service, to engage travel and border crossing with purpose and to gain insight into the global church.

Vision

Students will have opportunities to engage local incarnations of the body of Christ, to travel assuming an encounter with the holy (pilgrimage) and to open possibilities for individuals and communities to connect across language, political, religious, cultural and class borders.

Taught by adjunct professor, Steve Kriss of the Franconia Mennonite Conference, Harleysville, PA

Past trips

• 2009 - Crete - visiting with the missionaries at the 200 yr old Mennonite mission that ministry among the impoverished peoples in Crete
• 2008 - Cambodia - visiting with the missionaries engaged in social work with World Team
• 2007 - Cambodia - visiting with the missionaries engaged in social work with World Team