This technology is developing rapidly. Hopefully this can be utilized internationally as well. Intercultural internships help bring together the members of the triad. Internships carried out in local churches at home and abroad enhance the educational process, and benefit the churches by bringing new vision and personal interest in missionary endeavor. Suggested changes in the academy.
Structured communication is needed among the three members of the triad.
Church leaders and mission agency leaders need to know what the schools are doing to prepare students for intercultural ministries. Visits to churches by school representatives who can communicate the school's world mission commitments will open windows of understanding. Mission recruiters need regularly scheduled visits to the school campuses to interact with administrators, faculty, and students. Experience shows that the agencies who minister in schools regularly are the ones who influence potential candidates to go with their agency. Continuing education for pastors and other church leaders is another vital link the academy can forge with the assembly.