Consider broadening your horizons with these study and learning opportunities around the world.

Formation - Reformation - Transformation Formation: The International Center of Bethlehem is a Lutheran-based, ecumenically-oriented institution which works to equip the local Palestinian community to assume a proactive role in shaping their future. The ICB also promotes "authentic tourism," facilitating cultural exchange between Palestine and the rest of the world, and providing people from different cultures, contexts and backgrounds a forum to meet. These programs -- volunteers-in-mission, youth exchanges, educational workshops, theological conferences, academic consultations, and grass-roots encounters -- help build bridges of understanding and create communities of fellowship between peoples globally. Reformation: The ELCA Wittenberg Center, a life-long learning and spiritual enrichment center of the ELCA, encourages people of faith to explore their heritage and compels the church to be a contemporary witness to the gospel by promoting deeper understandings of the theology, heritage and spirit of the Reformation. The Wittenberg Center organizes programs of spiritual and educational enrichment for congregations, colleges, and universities and institutions of theological education. It celebrates the diversity of voices within the church by encouraging conversation and learning between international students and teachers, and facilitates dialogue and contact between ELCA members and ecumenical partners on the local, regional, and global levels. Transformation: The immersion program at the Lutheran Center in Mexico City challenges and empowers participants as God's people to become advocates and promoters of a more just and human world in the context of a global order that increasingly robs the poor of life and dignity. Participants experience the reality of the poor; reflect critically on the root causes of this reality; experience the hope for transformation through movements and projects arising from marginalized sectors of society; and return home with a recommitment to the gospel of Jesus, who lived in solidarity with the poor and excluded. Additional International Center Resource The Luther Institute is called to be a catalyst in and from the nation’s capitol to enhance learning and to recognize servant leadership. The Institute focuses on issues of faith and public policy as they meet on the "public square." The Institute is a non-partisan, educational organization, edifying various constituencies on issues of national and global importance. It does not advocate any particular position or candidate. The Luther Institute approaches its mission from a Lutheran perspective and invites both Lutherans and non-Lutherans to participate in its events. The Institute consciously facilitates discussion and shared insights among laity and clergy from all Lutheran Church bodies, other Christians and with people from other faiths.

Other opportunities through various partners
	Lutheran World Relief offers study visits to various parts of the world.
	The Center for Global Education at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, has quality cross-cultural educational opportunities in Latin America, Southern Africa and other sites across the globe.
	Travel with a purpose with Heifer International travel tour and connect with the essence of Heifer’s work: the individuals and communities that are striving and thriving along the road to self-reliance.
Life-Long learning opportunities
	Faith and Wisdom is a cooperative project of seven North American Christian denominations. Its purpose is to serve leaders in church and society by assembling information about the best learning opportunities available. Seminaries, colleges, lifelong learning centers, retreat centers and para-church organizations throughout the world offer these learning opportunities.