Quest Cycle Summary
Training & Fieldwork Cycle
The training takes place at a neutral location outside the people group.
Month 1 (Initial Training)
• Spiritual life
• Cross-cultural awareness
• Team building
• Orality and storying
• Language learning
Months 2-3 (Initial Field Work)
• Begining of relationship building among people group
• Language learning
• Cultural observations
Months 4-6
• Training in church planting movements
• Worldview study training
• Spiritual retreat/mentoring
• Worldview study fieldwork
• Fieldwork to craft three experimental stories
Months 7-12
• Training in cross language story crafting
• Spiritual retreat/mentoring
• Fieldwork to craft and translate 20 to 25 stories
Months 13-18
• Training in both recording and broad sowing media strategies
• Spiritual retreat/mentoring
• Continuation of language learning fieldwork
• Continuation of fieldwork on story set
Months 19-24
• Spiritual retreat/mentoring
• Broad sowing training
• Beginning of plan for follow-up fieldwork
• Completion of fieldwork on the set of 40 to 50 stories