Learning Missiology from our International Students: The Benefits of Reciprocal Teaching.

Missiology incorporates multiple disciplines into its educational model. One area of integration which is lacking is the area of worldview. Paul Heibert and other notable missiologists have contributed to the study of missiology through the incorporation of anthropology. Heibert and others have directed the missionary to incorporate various methods of ethnographic and phenomenological study into their methodology. Such additions have yielded benefits. However, recent mission and intercultural studies programs in the United States have attracted international students from diverse mission fields, which if properly incorporated could provide added benefit to the discussion. This paper will focus on ways international students can be incorporated into the worldview component of the mission discussion and how such an incorporation could improve the formation of missionaries preparing for the field.