FAQ

1.    What are the educational requirements to serve with Cadence?

To serve as a long-term career missionary with Cadence, the educational requirements are a Bachelor’s degree and 30 credit hours (semester) of Bible. Sometimes that is included in a degree if you attended a Bible college.

To serve on a short-term basis, those requirements don’t apply, but we are still looking for spiritual maturity and a passion for the Word.

There are also support staff missionaries and volunteers where the educational requirements depend upon the specifics of the position.

2.  What training does Cadence offer once onboard?

I don’t think we are as strong as we could be when it comes to training, but here is what we do and what we hope to do:

Phase I:  Immediately after Candidacy school, newly appointed missionaries stay for a week of training that includes financial software, partnership development, personnel policies, communications, and other practical orientation stuff.  We are using Kingdom Come Training for the bulk of our PD training now.

Phase II:  Once your support is strong enough and you are ready financially to go to the field, you would return to Denver for another 3-4 days of training.  This includes more cultural training and preparing your family for ministry.  By cultural, we mean a few things:  military culture, the country you will be living in, and issues specific to the type of ministry you will be involved in (House, Malachi youth ministry, singles ministry, etc.)

Phase III:  Veteran field missionaries and field directors provide support and mentoring.  Someday we would like to have training centers in place where you would complete an internship under veteran missionaries for a couple months prior to moving on to your field assignment.

Phase IV:  Ongoing professional/ministry development through education, seminars, and spiritual enrichment and member care retreats.

Click here to see our Four-Phase Training draft.  This document reflects what we want to offer even if parts of it have yet to be developed.  Some parts are out of date, but it’s still a pretty good picture of what we attempt.