What Every Missionary Needs
If you’re considering becoming a missionary, there are probably two things you desire: God’s guidance and practical training. Participating in SAFARI (Semester Abroad for a Radical Impact) will give you an opportunity to gain both.

SAFARI is a partnership between World Missions Ministries, Emmanuel College, Southwestern Christian University, and Holmes Bible College. Through SAFARI, you’ll have the opportunity to gain the social, spiritual, and practical preparation you need for a missionary career.

Social Preparation

An important part of training for a missionary career is gaining the cross-cultural and other social skills you need to succeed. SAFARI will allow you to develop some of the needed relationship skills even before you leave for South Africa. You’ll gain experience in raising support by asking friends and family to help with your financial needs.

Once you arrive in South Africa, you’ll be immersed in another culture for four months, allowing you to learn some of the language and build relationships with people who follow other religions. You’ll participate in numerous cross-cultural ministry experiences that will challenge you and help you develop cross-cultural ministry skills.

Spiritual Preparation

Through SAFARI, you’ll have the opportunity to gain some of the spiritual training you need for a missions career. Your relationship with God will be challenged in new ways by living and worshipping in a cross-cultural environment.

You’ll also have the opportunity to develop relationships with IPHC World Missions Ministries staff, missionaries, and national church leaders. Through relationships you develop, cross-cultural ministry experiences, involvement in a local churches, and personal times with God, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from God and grow in Him.

Practical Training

SAFARI participants will complete five weeks in Krugersdorp, South Africa, then be released to spend four weeks in one of seven mission field options:

• London, England
• Budapest, Hungary
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Tokyo, Japan
• Lima, Peru
• Nairobi, Kenya
• Blantyre, Malawi

SAFARI participants return to South Africa for three weeks of additional ministry and cultural experiences, debriefing, evaluation, and graduation.

Ministering among Hindus in Durbin, South Africa
Experiencing traditional African culture in Zululand
Visiting an AIDS clinic
Living the missionary lifestyle in one of seven mission fields
Ministering in the nation of Mozambique
Experiencing a real African safari tour

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