ITN-NTI is a distance education program providing the course of study for the ordination of Nazarene clergy and the equipping of lay leaders for ministry.
The school system serves the Africa West and French Equatorial Fields on the Africa Region, Church of the Nazarene. This currently includes more than 1500 students studying in 18 sub-Saharan countries.
ITN-NTI was established in 1989 as Institut Biblique Nazaréen in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, for French-speaking pastors training for the ministry. Similar institutes were then established in Liberia, Rwanda, Madagascar, and Benin. These programs were united with new sites in 18 countries from one side of Africa to the other: from Senegal on Africa's west coast to Madagascar and Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Missionaries were the first professors and directors of the institutes. Over time, more local pastors will be trained as master teachers (through the B.A. level), with the goal of having a well-developed national branch of the ITN-NTI in each country where the Church of the Nazarene is working. Working with district leaders, the ITN-NTI team will deliver courses to the large majority of Nazarene pastors that are not able to leave their families, ministries, and income-producing jobs to attend a resident Bible school.
In March 2008 an advisory board was established to oversee the development of this rapidly growing system of educational delivery. Dr. Greg Crofford was appointed as the new director of ITN-NTI starting in March 2009.
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