News from The Missionary Training Service: the Online Searchable Database of Training Courses

Database

The Evangelical Training Database - www.trainforChrist.org

Coordinating with member bodies of the International Commission for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE) and Trainers of Pastors International Coalition (TOPIC), the Missionary Training Service has launched a multi-lingual online database of training courses. We hope that all evangelical theological colleges, missionary training organisations, Bible Colleges and non-formal training programmes will be able to input information about their courses online, and that these will then be immediately searchable world-wide in all major languages. Geoff Tunnicliffe, leader of the World Evangelical Alliance has kindly said, "We certainly want to find ways of seamlessly integrating this into our WEA web presence". Dr. Chris Wright, Chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group and International Ministries Director of the Langham Partnership is also backing the project. We value your prayers for this initiative, that it will enable all Christians to find out what training is available and so be better prepared for service.

Details

	The database is free for anyone to search and free to post information on courses, though we invite donations to support the project.
	We are liaising with as many training associations and organisations as possible so that all can partner together in this project and avoid duplication of effort.
	The system will display only training institutions that have been validated for authenticity as an evangelical body.
	Training institutions fill in the details of their courses directly onto the site and can update their entries as needed through a password.

Advantages

	By working together, organisations can save much time and effort and make information accessible for prospective trainees.
	We hope that all courses will be promoted world-wide, through various portals.
	Links are provided to training organizations' sites so that those searching can go directly to them.

Challenges

The project depends on the active cooperation of evangelical alliances and associations world-wide. By God's grace we have overcome the problems of access in multiple languages and alphabets.

Timetable

The training database is now fully functioning in English and Spanish. We hope to add all major languages in the next year or so.

If you would like to be kept up-to-date with developments, please e-mail us (see address below).

Please visit the site at www.trainforChrist.org.

Thank you very much.

Ian Benson

Coordinator, The Missionary Training Service.

December 2006

The Missionary Training Service is a UK Registered Charity (No. 1073046) and a Company limited by Guarantee (No. 3554515).
This page was last updated on 03 December 2007.