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Advising… ITA

An essential for ministry progress and perseverance is the presence of a godly group of advisors providing oversight for the work of the ministry.   This November 2018 our ITA update is grateful to offer some highlights from our recent meeting of the advisory board / council in Sicily during the second week of the month, November 13th through the […]
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Publishing his first book after being equipped at ITA: The story of Michele Galasso

One of the blessings and benefits of training men for pastoral ministry is seeing the fruit of their ministry following their training. This is especially both a blessing and benefit when that fruit is the product of your training directly. Looking back this month of September 2018 ITA is grateful for one of its graduates […]
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Training Ukranian Pastors in Italy: Mykola Leliovskyi’s testimony

As we read the Scriptures we see that there aren’t many issues the Lord takes more seriously than the matter of leadership amongst his people. God holds pastors and teachers to a higher standard because their character and doctrine, in larger measure, determines the life of their community. In the Pastoral epistles Paul lays out […]
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Daniel Ransom’s testimony: One of the pastor’s from Centro Evangelico Battista in Perugia, Italy

This year our church, Centro Evangelico Battista in Perugia (Central Italy), began hosting classes for the Italian Theological Academy’s “Expository Preaching” program. Several men of our church accepted the challenge to participate in this three-year course, and now they are laboring to complete the homework assignments that the professors left them. The assignments are designed […]
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Training starts in the local church…

We would all agree with the heading for this past month of June 2018 in review. Training starts in the local church. The local church is both the biblical centerpiece if you will and foundation for pastoral training. Church leaders by God’s grace come forth from the local church and are called to the local church, to serve, to teach, […]
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March Madness…

Our heading this month is not about college basketball naturally… but captures with some humor hopefully our ministry travels at ITA throughout the month of March. A fundamental part of our pastoral training in Italy is our enduring relationship and partnership with The Master’s Academy International (TMAI) and Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, […]
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Shepherds’ Conference at ITA at the end of January 2018

Our first Shepherds’ Conference at ITA at the end of January 2018 was the result of a long-haul effort based on several years of prior training behind it. Here are some of the first fruits from the work: First, conference participants were all men, men in ministry, leaders for the most part overwhelmingly coming from […]
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Special Mendez Moment: progressing in training from the ground up!

The Lord continues to bless and build our first national leader in Italy. Trust you will be very edified by hearing more of Sebastian’s growth in the leadership of ITA along with his growing involvement in the ministry of TMAI, especially TMAI EU. He is our first Italian graduate to pursue further education in a […]
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