Grand
Valley Christian Centre
offers the ISOM Bible School.
The
International Curriculum (IC)™
has been created by "Good Shepherd
Ministries International". It is a revolutionary new tool for pastors,
missions organizations, missionaries and national leaders in foreign
countries. The IC™ consists of
professionally-recorded training sessions taught by mature Christian
leaders in many of the world’s major languages. Since all of
the material was developed in a bilingual format, new languages can be
added easily.
The
IC™
covers a wide variety of subjects and utilizes a broad selection of
teachers from diverse backgrounds. Those teachers include: Jack
Hayford, T.L. Osborn, Reinhard Bonnke, Joyce Meyer, Larry Stockstill,
Ed
Cole, Brian Houston, A.R. Bernard & Dick Eastman, to name a few.
One
of the greatest needs on the harvest fields of our world is the raising
up of godly,
effective
leaders. The major objective of the International Curriculum™ is to strengthen
training
institutes and to turn local churches all over the world into ministry
training centers. The IC™ also empowers national
pastors to
raise
up leadership for ministry work and church-planting in their local
contexts. Jesus called us to make disciples and not simply to win
souls.
International
School ofMinistry (ISOM)
In
order to make the implementation of The International
Curriculum™ as simple as possible, we
have divided the
program into a systematic, five-semester structure. 
There are 159 sessions
within this framework, and each is about one hour in length. Every
course
in The IC™ has special notes that
complement the video training. These
notes contain a written overview of the video content, group discussion
ideas, homework assignments and exams. There are leader's
guides
for instructors, as well as student workbooks with blank spaces for
pupils to fill in key words and phrases. The program, used in this
format is called the International School of Ministry. We will provide
an ISOM Certificate after three semesters and an ISOM Diploma after
five. An Associate's Degree, as well as accreditation from
Vision International University and other institutions, also is
available.
