Our mission is to provide Biblically-based, Reformed teaching and training worldwide primarily for indigenous pastors to help equip them for ministry.

Equipping today’s leaders to train tomorrow’s pastors

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Interested in teaching?

 What are the requirements?

Normally, lecturers should have at least a Master's degree and must have the backing of their church council or session. They must hold unquestioningly to the historic doctrines of the Reformed faith as contained in the confessions of faith such as the Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger and Shorter Catechism, Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of Dort, and The Belgic Confession. Lecturers are asked to provide three references. Click here for reference form.

 What is the cost?

Costs range from $1,000 to $3,000, depending on the country, time of year and length of stay. This cost estimate covers round trip transport airfare, visas (where required), in country and local transportation and all meals and lodging. Instructors are responsible to secure and possess a valid passport from their country of citizenship. Personal spending money is up to the instructor. Lecturers are asked to invite their home churches, friends and others to support the cost of their ministry overseas.

Through the gracious gift of some friends of ITEM, ITEM is now able to help instructors get to the field their first time by covering up to $1,500 toward the travel costs. All ITEM requests is that the instructor, if a pastor, request that his church begin supporting ITEM regularly by adding ITEM to its annual budget as soon as possible.

Instructor Package

 What are the needs?

ITEM has one and two week teaching opportunities in Ukraine, Latvia, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Belize, Bolivia, Uganda, Liberia and Ethiopia. Needed are professors and pastors with a love for teaching, an ability to teach a course on a basic Bible college or seminary level and an ability to apply Biblical doctrine to pastoral practice. See below for a sample listing of needed courses.

 What would I teach?

We need teachers in Systematic or Biblical Theology, Church Planting, Church History, Counseling, Eschatology, Homiletics, Hermeneutics, New Testament Introduction or Survey, Old Testament Introduction or Survey, Specific Books of the Bible, Worship and Sacraments, Apologetics, Biblical Leadership and Biblical Hermeneutics. Other courses are continuing to be developed. Instructors with ITEM are free to use these materials and to add their own touch as well.

 What are the benefits?

•Personal and spiritual refreshment

•An expanded world view of what God is doing all over the world

•A way to open your congregation’s eyes to the needs and opportunities elsewhere

•Partnership between you and your church with another church and its leaders somewhere else in the world

•Friendships with new Christian brothers and sisters in other countries

•Opportunities to use your training, experience, and spiritual gifts to build God’s kingdom globally

•Discovering that God is bigger than you thought.

 How do I get involved?

Please contact us to discuss your interest by sending an e-mail of inquiry indicating subject areas you are interested in.

William Wilton, Executive Director

email: bill@item.org

tel: 503-435-9838
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