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'SEAN' stands for Study by Extension for All Nations. SEAN’S TEE materials are designed to enable and mobilise God’s people for growth and ministry in evangelism, ongoing discipleship, ministry training, multiplying Christian workers, preparing leaders and pastors, every-member ministry, and church planting.
The methodology of SEAN's materials is based on well established educational techniques, although these are rarely used in the context of Christian discipleship and learning in the small group setting - this partly what gives SEAN its distinctiveness and which certainly makes it so effective. Beyond being able to read and write, there is no intellectual exclusion. Yet the simple method of learning should not hide the fact that the truths learned are deep.
SEAN materials have been used around the world since the early 1970s. They are currently used in well over 100 hundred countries and have been variously translated into over 70 languages. One can only 'guestimate' the number of SEAN students world wide - but 200,000 to 300,000 at any one time would probably be somewhere near the mark. However, mainly because of its deceptively 'simple' appearance, western churches have largely passed it by in the last 20 years or so. To the western SEAN students that know its value, this is a tragedy of collossial magnitude and one which, in its small way, this website is seeking to address.
SEAN courses operate at their best within a local programme. These need to be set up with care. Tutors need to be 1) envisioned, and 2) trained. It is nearly always the case that, in areas where SEAN has fallen into disuse, the envisioning and training of tutors has not been properly addressed. Please contact your nearest SEAN office if you are considering starting a programme, or just a group. That said, many of the most flourishing SEAN programmes have been started simply by following the manual's instructions, such is the integrity of the material.
SEAN International is an authoring body. By and large it encourages individual countries, under licence, to contextualise and produce their own versions of SEAN courses. Here in the UK, SEAN UK seeks to envision and enable churches in discipleship and training at grass roots level (that's EVERY Christian!); it also prints the courses.
The debt of appreciation owed to SEAN by countless thousands of students is immense. God's word given to us through the Bible is life-changing, and SEAN's ministry lies in helping ordinary Christians to unwrap those truths. For both young Christians (post-Alpha etc) and those more mature but without any structured training, SEAN courses cannot be ignored - at the very least, try a taster with your own group.
Read the article in issue 2 of Forum, if you'd like to take a look at SEAN's early days.
SEAN UK is an independant charity (number 1102491)
whose office is at Weycroft Hall, Axminster, Devon EX13 7LL.
(patrons Revd Dr John Stott & Revd Dr Michael Green)
'What you have heard from me ... entrust to others, so that they may be able to teach others also' (2 Tim 2:2), and 'be diligent to present yourself to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, handling correctly the word of truth' (2 Tim 2:15).
Click here for a more comprehensive overview of SEAN and its TEE materials.
Back to About TEE and SEAN.
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