Perspectives on the World Christian Movement® is simultaneously a distinct course, a national study program, and a global movement.
As a course, students in cities around the world or online study a singular curriculum.
As a study program, national leaders and local facilitators work together to enable the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement® course to be continuously offered in various localities and capacities within a nation.
As a global movement, the transformation of students and churches has surged into innumerable initiatives to reach the unreached, including the formation of new mission agencies, national mission networks, and a flow of new missionaries.
In an age when so much Christian educational and discipleship material is still created in the West, and then translated and delivered as a package to other lands, the Perspectives Global ministry strives for global stakeholder collaboration in curriculum and program development. It is a difficult task, and we do not always succeed and often move forward more slowly than desired. Yet, global collaboration remains a core value.
DISTINCTIVES
Perspectives Global is a network of people from various organizations and cultures and languages who share a singular transformative experience: taking a Perspectives class.
This network in all its variety is creating a singular product that is the same everywhere, yet different everywhere in its contextual adaption.
The Perspectives curriculum currently under development (5th edition) is incorporating an international curriculum committee and global authors.
The Perspectives curriculum is unified in its content and paradigm, yet varied in its presentation, application, and integration.
The guiding principles and protocols for Perspectives Global are designed, agreed upon, and implemented by an international council. No one organization nor culture dictates what the whole should be.
The Perspectives curriculum is accessible to the average church member as a certificate course, yet also available to seminary students as a graduate-level course.
National Perspectives on the World Christian Movement® program leaders are entrusted to steward the Perspectives course and movement in their country, making adaptions as they see fit.
Perspectives students around the world feel like they are part of a unique global family. The Africans gave us a name: We are a Global Tribe.
Established national Perspectives on the World Christian Movement® programs are indigenously taught, administered, and sustained.