The SOFM is a course designed to equip Christians to live and work amongst those forgotten people groups who live in the frontiers, those regions that have had little or no exposure to the gospel.

It consists of a 3-month intensive lecture phase that provides students with the knowledge and life-skills they need to develop into effective cross-cultural missionaries. Some of the issues covered are: the biblical basis for missions, cross-cultural evangelism, language acquisition, church planting principles, team dynamics, and developing a healthy support base.

Students then do a minimum 2-year placement phase in a frontier missions situation as part of a church planting team – hopefully just the first step towards a long and fruitful ministry.

SOFMs have been particularly effective when teams have been trained, then sent out together, to pioneer in new situations – as in YWAM Lichinga.

For more information on the School of Frontier Missions, visit www.uofn.edu

AfriCom, Tim Heathcote