The Kairos Course is a nine-session, interactive course on world Christian mission, designed to educate, inspire and challenge Christians to active and meaningful participation. It is ideally suited to be conducted in local churches, organizations or with special interest groups such as Christian businesspeople.
The Kairos Course is a nine-session, interactive course designed to educate, inspire, and challenge Christians to active and meaningful participation in the World Christian Movement. The course utilizes a variety of adult learning styles including group discussions, short lecture introductions, devotionals, video teaching, and student participation in specially designed activities.
Kairos looks at the four main areas of mission concern which are the Biblical, Historical, Strategic and Cultural dimensions of mission.
BIBLICAL
- God’s Purpose and Plan
We will discover, from the Bible, that mission lies at the centre of all God’s concern. - Israel, The Covenant People
We will study God’s dealing with the nation of Israel in His desire to fulfil His purposes through them. - The Messiah, the Message & the Messengers
We will see that God’s concern for all nations is still His central purpose as we move into the New Testament.
HISTORICAL
- Expansion of the World Christian Movement
We trace the advance of Christianity from its beginning to the present day
STRATEGIC
- Mission Strategy
We consider the place, value and nature of strategy in world Christian mission. - The Task Remaining
We look at the mission task remaining, who and where the majority of the unreached are, and what methods should be used to reach them. - World Christian Teamwork
We look at the variety of exciting ways the whole church can and must get involved in accomplishing strategic world mission.
CULTURAL
- Cross-Cultural Considerations
We address issues on communicating the gospel cross-culturally. We also look at aspects of church contextualization and its implications for seeing unreached communities of people discipled and won for Christ.
The Kairos Course is designed to lay a solid foundation in the life of the believer and of the local church, in world Christian mission. From this foundation, exciting and meaningful missions endeavour, can result.
Effective in changing mission mind-sets and perspectives.
2013 Kairos Participant The contextualization example was excellent – more please! The role play was excellent too! I appreciate a lot that lay-people are running this course – it becomes real to the many people who attend.
Pastor D. Goh, 2015 Kairos Participant
Attending Kairos has aided my present understanding of the biblical and historical understanding of missions.
2015 Kairos Participant Excellent course that should be made compulsory for all churches’ discipleship training!
Pastor Chua C.P., 2016 Kairos Participant, and current Kairos Facilitator
Through the course, the phrase “blessed to be a blessing” gave me a paradigm shift. God’s heartbeat for mission starting from the book of Genesis gave me a nudge to pursue His heartbeat. With this paradigm shift, it became clear to me that “blessed to be a blessing” is not an option, but a call for every believer to respond… Through the lesson on cross cultural considerations, my lack of understanding and tolerance of other cultures was surfaced… The importance of prayer was reaffirmed through the course.
Oh M.D., 2016 Kairos Participant
Thanks to all the wonderful facilitators for the effort that you have put into the course. Really appreciate everything that was done to bring missions applicable to everyone.
J. Yeo, 2017 Kairos Participant
Hope to encourage more people to join and promote Kairos in church!
Elder Koh S.K., 2017 Kairos Participant
Blessed Course! Well done!
John, 2017 Kairos Participant
Eye opener – that I am prideful and ethnocentric. Started journey of repentance, to check daily for filters and ask for God’s grace and mercy to see people as He sees them – with love and compassion.
Koh H.B., 2017 Kairos Participant
My passion for missions has grown and the course has challenged me to learn how to integrate missions into my everyday life.
Sabrina, 2017 Kairos Participant
The Church exists for God’s mission. Pray that church leaders would attend and encourage church members to discern and do God’s will that no one should perish but all come to be saved.
Elder Wong P.Y.,2017 Kairos Participant