Seminar Details
May 2-3, 2025
Dunwoody Baptist Church
1445 Mount Vernon Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338
Registration includes: Team Leader and Team Member Manuals, Dinner on Friday, Breakfast & Lunch on Saturday, Seminar Materials
Designed to train leaders to train teams, our seminars are highly relational, informative, and interactive. CULTURELink’s hands-on training allows team leaders the opportunity to experience being part of a team themselves prior to assuming their leadership roles.
Whether providing disaster relief, correcting social injustices, meeting physical needs, or expanding and developing Christian ministries, CULTURELink’s practical training and resources prepare teams to successfully integrate into new cultural environments.
Seminar Instructor
Led by an experienced CULTURELink instructor, seminar participants are guided through ten training sessions that equip them to prepare their teams before, during, and after their cross-cultural experience.
This seminar will be taught by Larry Ragan, founder of CULTURELink. Larry brings experience from over 50 countries. He has led professional exchanges, English language classes, outreaches, prayer teams, building projects, disaster relief teams, and more. He has led or overseen more than 250 teams.
Additionally, Larry teaches for Perspectives on the World Christian Movement courses. He previously served as a Missions Pastor and Teaching Pastor at two different churches. Larry and his wife, Karen, also served as missionaries in Budapest, Hungary. They live in Atlanta and have two kids, a dog, three cats, one fish, and one frog…the animal count changes daily.
*On occasion, the class instructor changes due to scheduling conflicts.
Seminar Schedule
FRIDAY • MAY 2
5:00 – 5:30 PM: Registration & Light Dinner
5:30 – 9:00 PM
- Short-term Missions Training Philosophy
- Session 1: Getting Started
SATURDAY • MAY 3
8:00 – 8:30 AM: Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
- Session 2: Cultural Research
- Session 3: Getting Started
- Sessions 4 & 5: Ministry Preparation. Team Building
12:00 – 12:30PM: Lunch
12:30 – 2:30PM
- Session 6: Travel, Packing, and Health
- Session 7: Final Countdown
2:30 – 5:00 PM
- Session 8: Living the Experience
- Session 9: Debriefing and Re-entry
*On Your Own Study
- Session 10: Home and Looking Forward
- The Seven-Step Process
- Maximum Impact Short-Term Missions
Our seminars are recognized by Perspectives of the World Christian Movement and by numerous Bible colleges that offer college credit to seminar participants. Since 2010, CULTURELink has conducted more than 80 seminars, training over 3200 leaders. These alumni have gone on to mobilize teams to 140 nations. CULTURELink is also an approved Resource Provider for MissionExcellence (formerly Standards of Excellence, SOE). To learn more and read about the Seven Standards of Excellence, visit missionexcellence.global/7-standards.