Section
Missions and Anthropology

Missions and Anthropology

Degrees Offered

B.A. Missions and Anthropology

Mission Statement

We prepare students to become effective servants of Christ’s Kingdom in cross-cultural settings by providing students with the principles and practices emerging from two disciplines, missiology and anthropology.  We guide and encourage them to apply these practices to a single purpose, cross-cultural Christian ministry.

Instruction in anthropology provides the ethnographic skills and understanding that are necessary for appreciating, analyzing, adapting to, and introducing appropriate change to, cultures.  Education and training in missiology clarifies the purpose of the Gospel of Jesus and the mission of God, delineates the nature of our participation in that mission, and provides a Christian perspective on the larger theological and historical context of our time and place.

The integration of the two disciplines, missiology and anthropology, creates a unique degree that emphasizes the synergy emerging from dialog between Christ and cultures.

Distinctives

  • Integration of two disciplines to create a unique degree
  • World-wide missions outreach
  • Faith-based curriculum
  • Rapidly growing field and coursework
  • Instruction with faculty who have extensive
    cross-cultural experience