Conferences, lectures, workshops and training courses related to Scripture Engagement.
 | GIAL in Dallas, Texas |
Beginning August, 2009, GIAL will offer courses leading to a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural Teamwork. People working with other cultures and different organizations will learn how teams work across cultural boundaries, and how to handle the various cultural factors affecting their work together. Many Scripture Engagement activities involve people from different organizations and ethnic backgrounds working together, so this program can be extremely useful.
The program includes four courses: Christianity Across Cultures, Social and Political Organization, Multicultural Teamwork, and Multicultural Leadership. [more...]
Music In World Cultures (MIWC) developed the graduate program in ethnomusicology at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. This new degree—a Master of Arts in Worship Studies (Ethnomusicology)—is housed at Liberty’s Center for Worship
Ethnomusicology is the study of music, in particular worship, in the context of culture. This degree prepares musicians to serve as missionaries focused on establishing worship programs specific to the culture and people of a particular nation.
 | Institute for the Development of Languages and Translation in Africa Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and East Africa Sponsor: SIL International |
The SIL i-DELTA course of study is for those who want to describe their language and find appropriate ways to develop the language through education, literature or the arts (music, drama, etc.). There will also be a course of study for those working in Bible translation and Scripture Use.
In partnership with existing academic institutions, courses will be offered at post-secondary through Master’s level in English and French. Beginning in 2010, modules in the domains of linguistics, literacy, translation and Scripture Use will be offered. These same modules as well as assessment (survey) and Anthropology will be offered in English in East Africa beginning in 2011.
Translation and Scripture Use modules will be accredited through the South African Theological Seminary (SATS). [more...]
 | GIAL, Dallas, Texas, USA Sponsor: Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics |
 | GIAL, Dallas, Texas, USA Sponsor: Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics |
The MA in Scripture Use includes two courses that focus on Scripture engagement, plus other supporting courses. Many students take these courses as individual courses.
SCRIPTURE USE STRATEGY AND METHODS covers eight aspects of any situation, eight "conditions" that affect Scripture access and engagement everywhere in the world. We go through how each one affects SE and what can be done when that condition is a problem. There is lots of assigned reading and each student consults with someone working in a current Bible translation project.
CURRENT ISSUES IN SCRIPTURE USE goes deeper on some of these issues and takes up others as well. It varies slightly each time so as to be maximally beneficial to the students that year and to cover the current live issues. [more...]
 | Trinity Western University in Langley, near Vancouver Sponsor: Canada Institute of Linguistics |
The Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL) offers Scripture Use training at Trinity Western University.
Both graduate and undergraduate students may apply. [more...]
 | JAARS, Waxhaw, NC, USA Sponsor: JAARS VMS |
Courses offered include:
1. Vernacular Media Specialist Training
This training gives instruction and hands-on experience in all aspects of vernacular media work in Wycliffe. Concepts covered range from strategizing for use of appropriate media, communication principles, evaluating media, designing programs, choosing an appropriate recording platform, and instruction in various recording platforms.
2. Program and Curriculum Design [more...]
 | Monday 9 August - Friday 24 September, 2010 The Wycliffe Centre, Horsleys Green, High Wycombe, UK Sponsor: European Training Programme |
This seven week course comprises three modules and is intended to be of particular value to those wanting a comprehensive approach to engaging in music and the performing arts anywhere in the world.
Although the course is designed primarily for workers who desire to communicate with people through performing arts, it requires no prior training in any aspect of performance.
 | Monday 27 September - Friday 10 December, 2010 The Wycliffe Centre, Horsleys Green, High Wycombe, UK Sponsor: European Training Programme |
This course (taken with the preceding ELC and LACA courses) is designed to give the participant the training needed to take up a mentored initial-level field assignment in Scripture Use. [more...]
 | Monday 28 March - Friday 1 April, 2011 The Wycliffe Centre, Horsleys Green, High Wycombe, UK Sponsor: European Training Program and Wycliffe International |
What can we learn about the role of Bible Translation and Scripture Use from the past 2,000 years of Christian history? Lots! There is nothing new under the sun, but we forget some of it. Come and hear Dr. Andrew Walls tell us stories of his friends from the past. Topics in view:
- The Bible without the Church: Maori 1820
- The Gospel of God's Chinese Son: Taiping
- The Bible Plus: Scofield
- The King's Business Requires Haste: Pentecostal Discovery of Tongues
- African Elijahs and African Zions: Scripture vs. missionary teaching
- Apocalypse now: road-belong (cargo) cults of Melanesia
- How many OTs are there?
- The Wycliffe Story: what is he telling the rest of us?
- Significant translations: Hausa, Arabic
