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Missionary Certification Program (MCP)
The MCP provides instruction, coaching, and resources that highlight the importance of missionary service, mobilization, collaboration, and networking within the total, all-inclusive mission community. Participants enrolled in the course are introduced to a curriculum emboldened to ignite their passion for cross-cultural missions, their hunger to grow more spiritually, and flame their zeal for travel abroad.
Missions Certification Program
Sowing Seeds of Joy (SSOJ) is thrilled to present the newly revamped Mission Certification Program (MCP), previously known as the "Missionary Certification Program", designed for individuals passionate about missions in today's global context. This dynamic program has been condensed into three intensive 16-week semesters, providing comprehensive training in four critical areas essential for impactful mission work:
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1. Mission Mobilization
2. Short-Term Team Leadership
3. Safe Conversations
4. Trauma Healing
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Participants will be fully engaged in their church’s outreach efforts and become advocates for the valuable training they receive. The program's structure ensures both academic and practical learning opportunities, empowering individuals to contribute meaningfully to cross-cultural missions.
Program Costs:
- Total Cost for the Three-Semester Program: $999.00
- Early Bird Discount: $850 for full payment before the program’s start date
- Payment Plans: Available with a minimum deposit of $500 to secure a spot
- Separate Training: i.e., Safe Certification $650
The cost covers the entire MCP curriculum, Safe Conversations training, Perspectives Course scholarship (value - $100), administrative fees for short-term mission trips, and other resources, making it a competitive and comprehensive offering for those seeking formal mission training.
* Cost of Perspectives Course not included. Perspectives course (Key Reading $225, Certificate $225, Credit $495)
Key Semester Dates:
- Semester 1: January 20, 2025 - May 9, 2025 (16 weeks)
- Semester 2: May 26, 2025 - September 12, 2025 (16 weeks)
- Semester 3: September 29, 2025 - January 16, 2026 (16 weeks)
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Our TRAINERS
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Pastor Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson, an ordained minister, co-founded Sowing Seeds of Joy with his wife Star. This ministry connects people to God's heart through discipleship and cross-cultural missions training, empowering church leaders and believers. With a BA in Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling, Ron's background includes world-class sprinter, police officer, US federal agent, and missions director. As the first African American Missio Nexus board chair, he is also a certified Perspectives Coordinator/instructor and Evantell evangelism instructor. A trained chaplain, Ron specializes in areas such as grief, stress, PTSI, human trafficking, and trauma healing. His work has taken him to 14 countries and numerous US cities.
Lori Pearson
Lori retired from a State Farm Insurance career in 2013 when her life was altered after going on a Missions trip to Haiti with Sowing Seeds of Joy (SSOJ). She travelled with again with SSOJ to Sao Luis, Brazil which later led to her becoming a Missions Coach for The Evangelical Alliance Mission Agency (TEAM). Lori led a short-term team to Japan . She currently serves on the board of Sowing seeds of Joy.
Brittany White
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Star Nelson
Star Nelson, a devout Christian, missionary, and wife. A graduate of Florida State University with a major in Criminology, and minors in Accounting, Government, Psychology, and Spanish. She is a former Internal
Revenue Auditor, past owner of a tax and bookkeeping business, retired postmaster, and current
missionary and mobilizer. She has trained, equipped, and empowered more than 2,000 individuals, laypersons, pastors, and their wives, church leaders, youth, and young adults, to experience God through the platform of short-
and mid-term missions.
Chris Crocker
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching…. As for you, always be sober minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Tim 4:2, 5
Since 2004, Chris has been doing the work of an evangelist, for the kingdom of God. As a one-time Corporate Trainer for a Fortune 500 company, I came to realize God gifted me to teach. Once I received the revelation of my God-given talent, I was determined to commit myself to fulfilling my ministry as preacher/teacher of the Gospel. Currently I
continue to grow in my faith as a husband, father, and
church/community leader with a focus on marriage, family, and mission.
programs
Discipleship &
Leadership Training
(DLT)
Advancing God’s kingdom agenda requires making disciples and training leaders. Sowing Seeds of Joy accomplishes this goal through this three-hour biblical discipleship and leadership training course. Participants are strategically offered training elements using curriculum that develops leadership skills and bolster character. The Discipleship and Leadership Training gives you an opportunity to discover your passions and your part in God’s purposes for the world. It is for those who long to follow Jesus in new ways with a different perspective.
Safe Conversations
Have you heard the expression “It is not what you say, but how you say it?”
We are living in families, communities, churches, workplaces and a nation that has conflict, division, and anger due to how individuals are communicating with one another.
Our communication style can be “I want you to think like me, look like me, believe what I believe, or act the way I act, and then we can get along and have peace in the home, on the job, at church, and in this country, because my way is the right way. Right!
Is it possible now that we know the cause of conflict is rejecting differences, that we can create a culture that moves from seeing difference as threatening to accepting differences? I have great news for you. The answer is yes, we can by training 3.4 million people in the world on the methodology of Safe Conversations.
Boot Camp
Missions Training
(BCMT)
BCMT is an intensive four-hour missions training course designed to meet participants (specifically, churches and church members) where they are; while intense, the training is flexible, relational, intentional, strategic, and evangelistic. The training builds from foundational life preparation, to understanding one’s specific calling, to practical application in various fields of ministry and cross-cultural missions. Bootcamp results have been amazing.
A Taste of
Perpectives
Workshops
A Taste of Perspectives is an intense three-hour workshop designed to have participants (specifically, churches and church members) experience and be exposed to facets of The Perspectives Course. Perspectives is a discipleship course taught over 15 weeks by 15 different instructors that presents the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic aspects of God's global purpose for the nations. Through this training, our objective is to give participants a “Taste” or Preview of the course with the hope of having them pursue registration in the full course either
on-line or in person.
Men:
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Ezekiel 22:30 30 "I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one." It is rare at times, during this age, to find a man who wants to delve within and unleash his inner passion; one who would stand before God in the gap on behalf of his family, church, and community. It does not mean that he is going to be masterful at it. For men to be comfortable in their own skin and accept their feeling nature takes a growth curve. Sowing Seeds of Joy, through this intense three-hour training, ignites the hearts of men to be on fire for God.
MasterLife
MasterLife is a developmental, small-group discipleship process that will help you develop a lifelong, obedient relationship with Christ. The goal is your discipleship. For you to become like Christ.
The complete MasterLife study consists of four books. Each book is a six-to-seven-week study. Therefore, the entire study consists of approximately 19 weeks of study.
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