Introduction to ACTI

A place where people from different nations and cultures meet for cross-cultural training

ACTI provides post-seminary (Bible school) and pre-field training for long-term cross-cultural workers. Studying at ACTI will mean more than obtaining knowledge and theory of missions. Staff and trainees actually practise missions in the context of cross-cultural community living and personal involvement in local churches and mission trips. Singapore, as one of the most multicultural societies in Asia, also offers tremendous opportunities for trainees to be exposed to peoples of diverse backgrounds.

ACTI aims to provide pre-field cross-cultural training for missionary candidates, tentmakers and bi-vocational workers intending to serve in a cross-cultural environment in an Asian country. The course is structured to provide trainees:

1. experience in cross-cultural community living in preparation for working with a cross-cultural team
   
2. skill for cross-cultural evangelism and church work
   
3. knowledge of Asian cultures and religions, and perspective of missions strategies; reflection on own and family identity in the context of cross-cultural living and working.

The uniqueness of ACTI is first of all in the fourfold objective it has for its trainess:

1. to experience cross-cultural community life
   
2. to learn cross-cultural evangelism and church work
   
3. to find their own identity as families or individuals in a cross-cultural context
   
4. to develop creative Asian perspectives on missions.

1. Singapore is one of the world's crossroads where many ethnically different people are living and where the English language is understood.
   
2. The cross-cultural nature of ACTI community life makes it the best context for the training of cross-cultural Christian workers.