Who is this Course really for?

You're a world changer with no shortage of ambition, who lights up in other cultures, motivated to do your part in reaching the nations, wherever you live.

YOU COULD ALSO BE:

• A business person, a mom, or retiree and want to make a hands-on difference in the nations from your home country.
• A (future) cross-cultural worker heading overseas and want to do HERE what you'll be doing THERE, first (or maybe you're already there). 
• A global or missions leader at a church and want to use this course to train your Welcomers, Short-termers, or Long-termers well.
• A non-profit staff person mobilizing others and you want to do what you're asking others to do.

I feel equipped and empowered...this is hands on stuff.

From Joy S Mom of four, refugee friend-maker

I did not know how to present the Gospel to my Muslim friends who lived near me. I felt unequipped, powerless, and unqualified—struggling and longing to be a walking talking Gospel that would flow out of me effortlessly—but not knowing how to get there.

After these eight weeks, I feel like a completely different person. I feel happy, hopeful, and challenged. I’m so excited to have a PLAN (which relieves so much stress)—and it’s DOABLE in baby steps.

I have several international friends I’ve invested in during the course—and this course equipped and empowered me to have confidence and be more bold.

It’s definitely worth the time, money and effort. Jeanne Marie has put together the most practical course ever. It's a game changer. Also, not a lot of reading—which is different than most courses that are more academic. This is hands on stuff.

Big missions concepts brought down to street level.

Matt Clark Executive Pastor of All Nations

I enrolled in The Neighbors & Nations Course to evaluate it as a resource for our organization—knowing the stellar product that is Across the Street and Around the World, on which the course is based.

Jeannie Marie is gifted. She managed to take Perspectives, TOAG Internship, and Spiritual Multiplication in the Real World and communicate it all at a super easy-to-digest level for people.  For real.  Gifted. And on top of that a thousand practical hands on "to do's".

I now have far more practical steps to take (the 45 spiritual starter questions were amazing). I’ve asked a friend to read the Bible with me, which felt awkward to do before this course. He agreed to read and he suggested his whole family be there.

I also shared resource ideas with people I mobilize and our staff. Jeannie Marie is the BEST at taking some of the big mission concepts and bringing them down to street level.

Module one

finding people from other countries near you

I know exactly where most zealous world-changers get stuck. (It's getting started!) 

In this module, we're going to crush it with the reason most people don't have success—they don't have enough friends from unreached people groups.

You'll be that. strategic. person. who actually KNOWS where people from spiritually strategic countries live near you—asking others and God what he's already doing—and a pro at getting to the elusive hello.

Module three

offering Jesus in a winsome way

Now that you have a few international friends, and your life is shifting to enter their culture well, it’s time to introduce them to Jesus in a way that draws them to meaningfully consider God’s good news for them.

Here you’ll develop an irresistible path to an irresistible Jesus and his Kingdom as the backbone of everything you do with ANYONE for months and years to come.

You will finally feel confident to authentically introduce the wonderful, compelling Good News to people from different backgrounds than you (and your neighbors and your own family too!)

Module five

practicing discipleship tools

80% of the spiritual work you’ll do to grow your friends into the Kingdom of God comes here.

Yet, most people stop right before the kind of things I teach in this module and say, “that’s good enough”, “it’s too much work”, “I'm not gifted enough”. 

If you close up shop after a yummy biryani dinner with a friend, you’re leaving an open-hearted almost-in-the-kingdom person sitting just outside the Kingdom City gates.

In this module, I’ll get you started on the simple but powerful practices that will grow you into a lifelong disciple maker who makes disciples who makes their own disciples.