ONLINE COURSE OFFERINGS
FALL SEMESTER. September 1 to December 10, 2026
LTC courses are offered in partnership with Wesley Biblical Seminary for only $1000, which is a significant discount from the regular $1650.
You can audit a course for just $300. Majority World students can audit for $100.
Questions? Email us at: info@liliastrottercenter.org.
For information on how to register, click here.
MS615
ENGAGING MUSLIM WOMEN:
UNDERSTANDING THEIR WORLD, REACHING THEIR HEARTS
Thursdays . 8:00 - 11:00 am Eastern (New York)
Muslim women are among the least-reached in the world. This course considers the unique needs and the formidable challenges that often make it difficult for them to learn about Jesus and be welcomed into his body. In addition to examining the religious and cultural challenges Muslim women face, we will explore the many educational, social, and economic disparities that increase their isolation and vulnerability. We will consider their felt needs and explore together creative ways to access women who have become our friends, neighbors, and colleagues and are so loved by God. We will hear from several field practitioners, learning from their wisdom and experience as well as each other.
This course is facilitated by Dr. Phillips, who has worked among Muslims in East and North Africa for more than 30 years, focused mostly on poor and isolated women with limited literacy. God has given her a special passion for women in villages and rural areas using community development, public health, and oral approaches to reach and teach women. Her heart is to engage those who are the least-reached and have little access to personal resources and/or the gospel message.
Watch Dr. Phillips' introduction
MS640
DISCIPLING AND PLANTING CHURCHES
IN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES
Thursdays . 8:00 - 11:00 am Eastern (New York)
This course examines two vital and interrelated topics: discipling believers of Muslim backgrounds and planting churches in Muslim communities. We will first reflect biblically, theologically, and historically on spiritual transformation and discipleship. We will then explore biblical, theological, and historical aspects of the nature of the church and the challenges of church planting, to develop effective approaches to discipling believers in the multiplying churches that we are helping plant.
MS640 will equip participants to critically engage with and creatively respond to the current realities and approaches to discipleship and church planting utilized by church planters serving among Muslims globally.
Watch Dr. Little's Introduction
MS 640 is taught by Dr. Don Little, Pioneers’ Missiologist, director of The Lilias Trotter Center, and producer and host of The Reflexio Podcast. A Canadian from British Columbia, Don has served as a church planter in North Africa (1985-1998), as a mission leader in Canada (1998-2006), and as Missiologist since 2007. Don leads the LTC, teaches LTC online courses, and trains workers through in-person seminars globally.
Don has had extensive exposure to what God is doing in the Arab world, in Africa, and in other parts of the Muslim world as he has trained and consulted with church planters in more than 20 countries. As PI’s missiologist, Don regularly consults with church planters, and leaders of church planting teams across the globe.
Don’s book, Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities: Scripture, History and Seasoned Practices, was published by IVP Academic in 2015.
MS600: A CHRISTIAN INTRODUCTION TO
ISLAM AND MUSLIMS
This ten-week audit course offers a historically informed, theologically grounded, and missionally oriented Christian introduction to Islam and Muslims. Taught by seven experienced practitioner-scholars, the course explores Islam’s origins, sources of authority, core beliefs and practices, historical development, contemporary expressions. It offers mature Christian reflection on faithful engagement with Muslims marked by truth, love, prayer, discernment, hospitality, and gospel hope.
DATES
Sept. 17 – Nov. 19, 2026
TIME
Thursday, 6 - 8 pm CT
FORMAT
Audit - no assignments
COST
$150
N.B. This is an Audit-Only course of only 20 lecture hours. It has a special reduced Audit fee of only $150.
Watch Dr. Little's Video introduction
There will be four sections:
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Core Foundations of Islam
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Theological and Historical Development
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Contemporary Islam and common questions
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Christian witness and ministry to Muslims
Topics will include:
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Muhammad: Messenger, Statesman, Model, and the formation of the Muslim community in the Standard Islamic Narrative
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Core themes in Qur’anic theology, guidance, messengers, judgment, paradise, and hellfire.
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The Dhimma, Christian minorities, and the decline of Christianity under Islamic rule
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Peace and conflict, jihad, conceptions and misconceptions about Islam
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Allah and the God of the Bible: same God, different God?
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Ministry to Muslims: friendship, hospitality, prayer, Scripture, gospel conversations, culture, and contextualization.
There will be 20 topics covered, two in each 2-hour class.
The course will be taught by (in alphabetical order):
Rev. Dr. Dejan Aždajić
Lectures in Practical Theology at the Giessen School of Theology in Germany. Trained in both Christian and Islamic theology, he researches lived Islam and Sufi communities and fosters thoughtful Christian-Muslims engagement.
Rev. Dr. Mark Durie
Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne School of Theology’s Arthur Jeffery Centre, an Anglican pastor and linguist equipping the global church to form healthy fellowships of believers from Muslim backgrounds.
Rev. Dr. Fred Farrokh
A Muslim-background Christian who serves as an International Trainer with Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples. He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies.
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Lee Hegeman
Has spent over 35 years in French-speaking, Muslim-majority countries, focused on research, teaching, and discipleship. A historian of Christian and Islamic history, he holds a PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Dr. Don Little
Former tentmaking church planter in North Africa and mission leader in Canada. Since 2007 he has served as Missiologist for Pioneers. He now leads the Lilias Trotter Center, hosts the Reflexio Podcast, and authored Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities.
Dr. Thomas Messick
An evangelical scholar of Islam and the founder of the Evangelical Institute for Christian-Muslim Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic and Intercultural Studies and trains churches and ministry leaders for gospel-centered engagement with Muslims.
Dr. V. Phillips
Spent over 32 years in East and North Africa, immersing herself in the lives of Muslim women. She joined LTC as an adjunct professor in 2021 after completing her PhD in Intercultural Education at Biola University.
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LTC courses are offered in partnership
with Wesley Biblical Seminary
These graduate-level courses are available at a significant discount of $ 1,000 for three seminary credits. Alternatively, each can be audited for just $300. Majority World students can audit each course for just $100. [Please note that each course instructor determines requirements for auditors.]
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“The world in which we live today is confronted with catastrophic changes unparalleled in human history and the Church is going to be tasked with discovering how to live side by side, step by step in harmony and yet with distinction, beside or alongside, a very aggressive and uniquely monotheistic faith. For these reasons and more I envision The Lilias Trotter Center helping the Church … as we seek to share Him with those who do not yet know and love Him.”
- David E. Dick,
VP at Large (and former International Director), One Mission Society