Seminario Carey began as a way to train future church planters at the local church level. Today, there are hundreds of students from all over the world who study online or at one of our study centers. Seminario Carey offers diploma level courses as well as masters level courses to help   […]

TLI partners with the First Baptist Church of Atibaia (PIBA) in Atibaia, Brazil. Since 2013 TLI has provided consulting, support, and instructors to help them start their own church-based seminary (EPPIBA). Students receive both academic training and supervised ministry experience as a PIBA elder mentors them over the course of three   […]

Have you ever wondered what it looks like for a region to see, on the one hand, significant church growth and, on the other hand, the equally striking advance of false teaching? It looks like Nordeste, the northeastern region of Brazil, where the prosperity gospel and extreme versions of liberal theology   […]

The signing of the Paris Peace Agreement on 23rd October 1991 opened the doors of Cambodia to the world after years of internal turmoil. Opportunities for spreading the Gospel abounded and many congregations were formed or regrouped from remnants of the pre-1975 faithful. To meet the growing pastoral needs of   […]

Cameroon is the most complex nation in Africa with its 290+ language groups. In partnership with Église Baptiste Bethléem, Bethlehem College & Seminary, and Treasuring Christ Together, TLI is engaged in church-planting, the establishment of an accredited MDiv Program, the equipping of Cameroonian pastors to strategically use the TLI curriculum, and   […]

In partnership with the North American Mission Board, we have begun training migrant leaders in Minneapolis from primarily a Hmong background. Many pastors who are first-generation immigrants do not have access to the opportunities around them for training and education. These ministry leaders find themselves in a similar position to those   […]

TLI is partnering with First Bilingual Baptist Church (FBBC) in Pico Rivera, California (southeast Los Angeles metro), to lead the first Spanish-speaking workshop for the newly redesigned Diaspora Training. In addition to a high value on expository preaching and teaching, FBBC has a strong heritage of cultural cooperation and unity across   […]

TLI is partnering with Soteria Des Moines Church in West Des Moines, Iowa, to sponsor the first site of the newly redesigned Diaspora Training. Located in a rapidly developing rural corner of southeast West Des Moines, Soteria Des Moines has celebrated over five decades of faithfulness, and seeks to be known   […]

TLI is partnering with The Church at West Creek in Parma, Ohio (suburb of Cleveland), to offer preaching workshops for diaspora pastors in Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. These workshops will be hosted primarily at Cleveland Romanian Baptist Church in Seven Hills. Parma and Seven Hills are communities with a strong   […]

TLI is partnering with EFCA West All Peoples Ministries (a ministry of the Evangelical Free Church in America) and Iglesia Bíblica Pan de Vida in Chandler, Arizona (suburb of Phoenix), to offer preaching workshops for Spanish-speaking pastors in the greater Phoenix area. Some participants will even be coming from Albuquerque, NM.   […]

TLI is partnering with EFCA West All Peoples Ministries (a ministry of the Evangelical Free Church in America), Iglesia Fuente de Vida, and Trinity Church in Redlands, CA (suburb of Los Angeles), to offer workshops for Spanish-speaking church leaders in Southern California. These workshops will be offered in Spanish and hosted   […]

TLI is partnering with La Iglesia Cristiana por la Gracia de Dios San Miguel. Pastor Job and Pastor Orlando love Christ and the church. The church is involved in several ministries to reach their community and help equip believers: Christian school, church planting, medical clinics, annual and men's and women conferences.   […]

This site graduated from our 9 course curriculum in Oct 2018. Pray for them to continue to utilize what they learned in the 3 year training and pray for the health of their churches. Local pastors are eager to launch another cohort there using TLI’s new curriculum.

Pastor Tesfaye Nenko Edema, a trainer of ministers who is widely respected among many denominations, invited TLI to launch its first cohort in the Rift Valley city of Hawassa in 2015. That first cohort graduated in March 2018. He and TLI launched the second Hawassa cohort in March of 2019, using   […]

A key crossroad city in southern Ethiopia, Shashemene has several churches but very few preach the true Gospel. A fledgling Bible College has two classrooms and a sparse library. The school’s president is now seeking faculty members. TLI’s non-formal program utilizes this school’s facilities to provide crucial training in Biblical interpretation   […]

Northern Ghana is the religious border between Islam dominated north Africa and Christian dominated south Africa. Training Leaders International is partnering with Community Life Church to train church planters in this critical, Christian-minority area. In January 2018, we will be graduating our first cohort. Currently, the plan is   […]

Christ Bible Seminary is a recently established graduate-level theological seminary in central Japan. It offers the M.Div., M.A., and a one-year certificate in Christian Studies. Its purpose is to train a new generation of leaders -- pastors, teachers, church planters, missionaries, counselors, youth workers, and others -- for the   […]

TLI's largest training site is located in Monrovia, Liberia. Our national partner, Dyonah Thomas, founded the Center for Leadership Development (CLD) and has been involved with training pastors and church leader throughout the region before partnering with us. Through our partnership, Dyonah’s goal is to provide a more structured   […]

The Ebola crisis of 2014-2015 caused a country that was marginally Christian to seek the Lord in earnest. The result was a massive growth in new believers. But they had very few trained pastors to help lead encourage growth and plant healthy churches. Since 2016, GraceLife College and Seminary has   […]

In the spring of 2017, TLI met with Moses Nkhata. Moses could be pastoring in a large church in the capital city, but he believes God has called him to serve in rural Malawi, where he is a pastor and provides training for both village and city pastors. Moses has identified   […]

In partnership with a group of U.S. Churches, we are training 10 pastors from a closed country. Each of these men has planted and pastors multiple village churches in their area. The churches sacrificially give to fund the entire training and provide one pastor each trip to teach   […]

TLI is excited to train first-generation pastors in a location just outside the capital city of Ulaan Baatar. With the fall of Communism in 1989, the ideology that had defined life for so long collapsed and left the country in a state of confusion. But the church has been on   […]

A former German colony that was passed on to South Africa, Namibia gained its independence in 1990. Sandwiched between the Namib desert and the Kalahari desert, Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. With around 2.5 million people, Namibia is a modern-day melting pot of ancient   […]

Our mission in the Hawaiian Islands and other Pacific Islands is to serve and equip pastors and churches in the Hawaiian Islands for the sake of the Pacific Islands. Through a Bethlehem College & Seminary extension, informal pastoral equipping and preaching workshops, and involvement with pastoral and denominational networks in   […]

In partnership with a Filipino leader who works to train rural "village" pastors, TLI will begin a new, non-formal training location on the northern island of Luzon just a few hours outside of Manila. New Tribes Philippines has a camp near Olongapo used for training their national and international missionaries,   […]

Within the Baptist Union of Serbia, the Baptist Theological School (BTS) has been operating since 1939. However, with the chaos of the Balkan wars in Yugoslavia and changing country geographies, the school has undergone much upheaval, opening and closing throughout the decades. TLI Global Partner Dwayne Baldwin is working alongside Dr.   […]

One of our global partners will be serving churches in the townships of the Western Cape. His work with pastors will have the specific focus of equipping expository preachers of Christ through weekly Preaching Fellowships.

Seeing the tremendous need for vibrant, biblical churches, TLI partners with a faithful church to establish a 3-year, church-based M.Div. program. This seminary started with a cohort of 12 men and trains pastors to plant churches, preach the Word, and shepherd God’s people in their context. TLI provides teaching staff who   […]

We are continuing to partner with an experienced local ministry. They have a 40-day training program from which our partner selects certain pastors to participate in our training. This is the second cohort (27 pastors), with a projected graduation of July 2019. Our work here is strategic given the deep need   […]

Seeing the tremendous need for vibrant, biblical churches, TLI partners with a faithful church to restart our non-formal training with a second cohort of ministry leaders from surrounding villages. The partner church is a hub of faithful theological training and pastoral care for these fledgling and growing churches.

Sweden is considered one of most secular countries in the world. Although the Reformation and the state Lutheran church left an imprint on Swedish culture, what remains today is an empty shell of Christianity, devoid of the gospel and impotent to save souls. Sweden has a desperate need for   […]

Nassa Theological College serves the needs for Bible Training of the African Inland Churches, Tanzania (AICT). The AICT is one of the largest protestant Christian denominations in Tanzania, with over 2,000 churches, 600 ordained pastors and 2000 evangelists. It is estimated that 90% of these leaders have little to no formal   […]

Asia Biblical Theological Seminary of Cornerstone University, in cooperation with multiple mission organizations, makes available graduate level theological education to eligible Christian leaders serving in Asia. Since 1983, this program has provided the opportunity to earn master’s degrees from Cornerstone University while remaining in Asia. ABTS aims to accomplish its   […]

In Lomé (Togo), TLI partners with the École Supérieure Baptiste de Théologie de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ESBTAO). This African-led seminary is the denominational school for Baptist churches throughout Francophone Western Africa. ESBTAO is a formal theological site which confers Bachelors (the equivalent of an American Associates Degree) and Licensure Degrees (the   […]

We work with a group of churches from Wisconsin who have committed to fill all teachers necessary for our trips. Our national partner is the staff of Tutapona Trauma Counseling. Many of the students we work with have gone through Tutapona's trauma rehab program and are leading churches in the   […]

Gulf Theological Seminary trains pastors and church planters for the 10/40 Window. We are affiliated with gospel-centered churches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. We began offering classes in 2015, and our innovative church-dependent pastoral education curriculum launched with the 2016-17 first-year cohort. We are working in partnership with international seminaries and   […]

Hanoi Bible College serves the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (North), which includes the Red River Delta region and the northern highland provinces. The majority of students are Hmong, but the ethnic Vietnamese and other minority groups are also represented. Due to significant growth of the church in recent decades, the church   […]

The Baptist Theological Seminary of Zambia has been a training center for Pastors and Church Leaders in Zambia for over 50 years. Through programs saturated with "Biblical Preaching, Contextual Teaching, and Bold Witnessing," they are equipping men and women to faithfully serve in Jesus' Name, entrusting the Scriptures to others!