About
What would it look like if
At Discipleship Training Communities:
Disciple-making is learned through intentional mentoring and hands-on practice among Unreached People Groups
Pioneers Core Values are shared and caught in a team context with members from around the world
Accessibility for all gateways and multicultural koinonia is embedded in each team’s structure and DNA from the start
Every Pioneers DTC shares the following commitments:
Furthering Pioneer’s Mission
Pioneers mobilises teams to glorify God among unreached peoples
by initiating church planting movements
in partnership with local churches.
Discipleship Training Community
Core Values
- Spiritual & Character Formation
- Multicultural Koinonia
- Integrated Learning & Hands-on Mission
- Mentoring
- Globally Accessible
- Reproducible & Contextually Expressed
- Multilingual
Discipleship Training Community
Desired Outcomes
Participants who complete a Pioneers DTC will live and serve in a way that evidences:
- A vibrant relationship with God rooted in intimacy, dependence, and identity formation
- Foundational knowledge and commitment to growth in Biblical knowledge and obedient practice
- Prayer and spiritual rhythms
- Emotional intelligence & self-awareness
- Applied cultural intelligence
- Missiological reflection & integration
- Understanding of and commitment to living out Pioneer’s mission and core values within communities that nurture teams
- Valuing and celebrating the diversity and essential unity of the global Body of Christ formed by living in a culture of koinonia and self-emptying suffering
- Practice in diverse and foundational methods of cross-cultural disciple-making and church planting
Pioneers International
Core Values
- Passion for God
- Unreached Peoples
- Church Planting Movements
- Ethos of Grace
- Partnership With Local Churches
- Team
- Innovation and Flexibility
- Participatory Servant Leadership
DTC’s Mission
To grow and release well-formed disciple-makers
into the global Pioneers family
through hands-on mission and mentoring,
within life-on-life, intercultural teams.