COST: $3700

UNIVERSITY CREDIT: 12 credits

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Communicate God’s Word to God’s World

Does this sound like you? You’re passionate, you want to be a voice for the voiceless, you want to make a difference. But your own voice gets drowned out by all the other clamor around you. Or you’re misunderstood. Maybe you haven’t discovered your voice yet, but you know that God has put a passion within you and you’ve got to share it!

The School of Communication Foundations will help you discover your voice and make your message–and God’s message–clearly understood.

The purpose of the School of Communication Foundations (SCF) is to strengthen your relationship with God as a personal God who communicates truth with love to His world, both individually and corporately. You will develop the character, knowledge, and skills to communicate God’s love and truth passionately to His world.

The School of Communication Foundations lays essential foundations in biblical communication. It aims to sharpen your ability to communicate clearly through cross-cultural and interpersonal dynamics. It equips you to prepare and deliver a message to a variety of audiences. Through provoking instruction and discussion, practical assignments, and video evaluation, you will discover your place and potential as an effective influencer in the public forum.

You will gain skills in speaking, writing and listening through a variety of practical assignments, discussions and weekly lectures. You will be challenged to rethink communication and to be reshaped by God’s revealed truth.

The SCF is not just about practical communication tools–this school is also about intimacy with God. God communicates through who He is, and we do as well. As we get to know God more, we gain a deeper understanding of our own identity and we learn to relate to others and to God with confidence and authentic passion.

It is our hope that students who graduate from the SCF will become even greater influencers and communicators in the public forum.

Some topics covered include:

• Basic communication models and foundations of communication
• Jesus style communication
• Public speaking, speech construction, delivery techniques
• Trends in Communication
• Creative and professional writing
• Interpersonal and Intrapersonal communication, including conflict resolution

Schedule (order is subject to change):

• Week 1: Fundamentals of Communication
• Week 2: Public Speaking
• Week 3: Research and Research Writing
• Week 4: Creative Writing
• Week 5: Active Listening
• Week 6: Biblical Worldview, Post-modernism, Humanism
• Week 7: Cross Cultural Communication
• Week 8: Interpersonal Communication
• Week 9: Special Topics in Personal Communication
• Week 10: Trends in Communication
• Week 11: Intra personal Communication
• Week 12: Wrap up, Graduation

YWAM Madison School of Communication Foundations:

• Prerequisite: successful completion of a Discipleship Training School and outreach

Apply for the YWAM SCF Now!