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In 1889 Adoniram Judson Gordon founded the school, Boston Missionary Training Institute, [4] in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of Boston at the Clarendon Street Baptist Church [5] to train Christian missionaries for work in what was then the Congo Free State. [6]
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. Sign near entrance at Provo MTC
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.
Ethnos360 requires all candidates to complete a training program. [16] The training program can take up to four years to complete. In the US, this training culminates in an unaccredited bachelor's degree. [17] Major Bible colleges such as Moody Bible Institute and Columbia International University recognize credits and degrees from Ethnos360. [18]
It furnished materials for missionary instruction, including carefully graded text-books adapted to use with various age groups, programs for missionary meetings and special services, manuals of missionary education devoted to principles and methods, and an extensive leaflet literature relating to the promotion program of the organization.
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 ...
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.
Bethany Global University, originated as the Bethany Fellowship Missionary Training Center in 1945 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [4] Its founders were five families united by a shared commitment to Christian missionary work and a desire to spread the Gospel.