25 Years of Bridging Cultures for Christ

Five-year Strategic Goals

Director’s MessageHistoryMission and Vision
Courses OfferedFive-year Strategic Goals

In order to achieve the vision, mission, and objectives, the following five-year strategic goals will be implemented.

  • Constantly revise and develop graduate communication curricula, diplomas, and certificates that are theologically and biblically centered, yet culturally sensitive for the twenty-first century.
  • Actively promote promising students region-wide.
  • Continue to develop relevant hands-on media and cross-cultural workshops to enhance communication techniques and skills for various clients in the mission of the church.
  • Host regional conferences of Christian communications that advance communication ministry and scholarship in Asia and the Pacific region.
  • Develop a spiritually mature, academically trained regional communication faculty member who has expertise in one of the areas of media studies. This faculty member will be an asset to the global faculty program of the Church of the Nazarene.
  • Seek local, regional, and global partners; funds; and endowments to promote media and communication

Implementation

PROJECT VALUE

Student Scholarships

A single student’s one year tuition, room, board, and books.

$3,450
Faculty Development Fund

Indigenization of FISC faculty by providing tuition and related expenses for one year.

$40,000

New Life Mission Center

Completion of the 2nd and 3rd floor of the Volunteer Mission Center, which will provide comfortable living quarters for visiting
professors and facilitate various conferences being held on campus.

$120,000

FISC Conference Room

(NCEE Building). This will further enable local and global leaders, as well as students, to develop creative strategies to convey the gospel through all possible means of communication.

$50,000

FISC Offices & Other Facilities

In order to fulfill the strategic goals, FISC will need additional faculty office, small seminar room, and classrooms.

$20,000

Individualized & Upgraded Media Lab

Individualized and upgrade from the current media lab can be the strategic space for students to excel their media skills.

$10,000

Strengthen Communication Library Resources

Acquisition of related communication library sources to provide high quality graduate level study materials.

$100,000

Lectureships and Visiting Professors

FISC will invite internationally recognized scholars in the area of media studies, religion, theology, sociology of religion, and
missiology to enhance and to nurture Christian communication scholarships in the region.

$10,000

per year

Promotion of FISC

Active promotion is needed to effectively announce the presence of FISC and recruit promising students from the Philippines, in the
region, and beyond.

$5,000

Regional Conferences

Actively hosting Christian communication conferences to develop regional scholarship in research and publication.

$20,000
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