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ABOUT ISOM
The International Curriculum™ (IC)
The International Curriculum™ has been created by Good Shepherd Ministries International. It is a revolutionary new tool for pastors, missions organizations, missionaries and national leaders in foreign countries. We like to view the project as the training equivalent of the Jesus movie. The IC consists of professionally-recorded training sessions taught by mature Christian leaders in many of the world's major languages. Since all of the material was developed in a bilingual format, new languages can be added easily. The IC covers a wide variety of subjects and utilizes a broad selection of teachers from diverse backgrounds. Those teachers include: Jack Hayford, T.L. Osborn, Reinhard Bonnke, Joyce Meyer, Larry Stockstill, Ed Cole, Brian Houston, A.R. Bernard & Dick Eastman, to name a few.
One of the greatest needs on the harvest fields of our world is the raising up of godly, effective leaders. The major objective of the Curriculum is to strengthen training institutes and to turn local churches all over the world into ministry training centers. The Curriculum also empowers national pastors to raise up leadership for ministry work and church-planting in their local contexts. Jesus called us to make disciples and not simply to win souls. The Jesus movie and other evangelistic efforts in the nations have brought millions to salvation. Let's follow up those new believers with high-quality teaching and training in the birth-languages of people.
International School of Ministry™ (ISOM)
In order to make the implementation of The International Curriculum™ as simple as possible, we have divided the program into a systematic, five-trimester structure. There are 159 sessions within this framework, and each is about an hour in length. Every course in The IC has special notes that complement the video training. These notes contain a written overview of the video content, group discussion ideas, homework assignments and exams. There are both leader's guides for instructors, as well as student workbooks with blank spaces for pupils to fill in key words and phrases. The program, used in this format is called the International School of Ministry.™ Other possible ways to use the IC also are available.
We will provide an ISOM Certificate after three trimesters and an ISOM Diploma after five. An Associate's Degree, as well as accreditation from Vision International University and other institutions, also is available. Literally thousands of schools can be started all over the world using the Curriculum. Many churches in the United States also are reporting a high degree of success in using the ISOM as a church-based training school. We invite pastors, missionaries and national church leaders to partner with us to start church-based training centers in many countries and languages. Using the International School of Ministry™ materials, we can mobilize the Church globally for multiplication growth.
Rev. Berin Gilfillan
Founder - Good Shepherd Ministries International
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