History of The Live School

World Mission Centre has already worked through five necessary steps of six needed to realize this vision. This process has taken six years to develop to date.

Phase 1 Curriculum Development

Dr. Bill Taylor of World Evangelical Alliance – Mission Commission, brought an international coalition of international mission trainers together.

Using 28 men and women from eight countries, the curriculum was developed under the leadership of Dr. John Kayser from Bethany World Missions. It was written at the 6 th grade level and can be adapted to various cultures.

Designed with six months of class work and six months of fieldwork, it can be adjusted to fit various needs up to a two-year time frame.

Phase 2 Curriculum Recorded

A total of 330 hours of teaching was recorded in a studio in Pretoria, South Africa on high band, broadcast quality (Beta cam SP) videos. This took six months to complete. The recordings were done while 50 key missionaries were trained. Their task would be to lead 483 African missionaries from seven countries that would take the Gospel to the last of the Least Reached People Group in Southern Africa in the latter part of the year 2000.

Phase 3 Curriculum Tested

Content was checked against original goals and objectives. Reaction of students was observed and documented during two formal presentations. 234 of the 330 hours initially recorded were chosen to become the core curriculum. One-page outlines for each unit of teaching were developed to be used as an aid for the facilitators. Together with this a manual on "How too run a Live School" has also been developed.

Phase 4 Curriculum Finalized, Edited, and Put into Briefcases

Edit the tapes to remove all the repetitions, wrong words, e.g. uhm’s and aah’s, and any other redundancies that are unnecessarily lengthening the recordings. This will make the teaching more concise and effective and will save enormous cost when translating the curriculum.

Phase 5 Live School launched in English – November 2005

The Live has finally been completed and is ready to launch in the Southern African countries and other world regions where English is spoken and understood.

Phase 6 Translating the Live School in various world languages

The goal is to translate the Live School curriculum into at least eight world languages with the view of starting schools in the areas of the world where it is needed most.

We anticipate that this process will take a few years to complete.
Currently the curriculum is being translated into Swahili.