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Missionary Training Centers (MTC) are centers devoted to training missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah , adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned and operated by the church.
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Founded in 1885, the Chicago Training School was started in order to educate and train women for Christian service and ministry. [3] The school grew out of the Methodist deaconess movement [4] and gave preparation for missionary work in "city, home, and foreign fields". [5] It was run by Lucy Rider Meyer, and her husband Josiah Shelley Meyer.
The predecessor to the current university was first established in 1902 as the Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School by William Bell Riley, a pastor at First Baptist Church of Minneapolis. [1] In 1935, the school opened the Northwestern Evangelical Seminary. The College of Liberal Arts was added in 1944.
The curriculum is based on Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, although other reference material, including other Bible translations, is used. [34] [35] Students are also taught about changes in culture and language as well as techniques for conducting meetings and Bible classes. Some students receive additional ...
WEC International is an interdenominational mission agency of evangelical tradition which focuses on evangelism, discipleship and church planting, through music and the arts, serving addicts and vulnerable children, through Christian education, missionary and church leadership training, medical and development work, Bible translation, literacy and media production, in order to help local ...
All Nations is the result of the merger in 1971 of three colleges, all of which prepared people to work in cross-cultural missionary service overseas: Mt Hermon Missionary Training College (founded 1911), Ridgelands Bible College (1919), and All Nations Bible College (1923).
Bethany Global University (formally Bethany College of Missions) [1] is a private Evangelical Christian university in Bloomington, Minnesota. Its primary focus is on training missionaries and it was founded in 1948. It was one of nine work colleges [2] in the United States until 2024 when it moved to a fully online format. [3]