Past Institutes

Institute for Excellence in Christian Leadership Development

• Final 2010 Institute comes to a close: “Thank you for creating a forum to express this need”
• Large turnout gathers to discuss seminary/church relationships in Ukraine
• Churches and seminaries will engage each other more intentionally
• The Church and seminary should “do together what we cannot do separately”
• Institute in Serbia combines leaders from MENA region and Europe; focuses on similarities
• “Seminaries cannot live without the church, and churches cannot live without well-trained servant leaders”
• “The seminary and church are one, and their relationship implies being servants [to one another] and partners”
• Final Institute of 2009 brought together 51 Eurasian leaders
• Beirut Institute gathered 29 leaders to focus on spiritual formation
• “The Institute [on spiritual formation] confirmed what we are already doing”
• Singapore Institute draws 63 Asian leaders from 17 countries
• Thirty-three leaders from 12 African countries trained at Abidjan Institute
• Nairobi Institute trains 28 leaders from 15 schools
• Two sequential Chinese-speaking Institutes held in Hong Kong and Taiwan
• Stimulating discussions on spiritual formation highlight the Latin America Institute
• Twenty-six African leaders trained at Lusaka Institute
• 2009 Institutes for Excellence to focus on spiritual formation, starting in Bulgaria
• Twenty-three leaders gather in Pune, India: “My school will benefit from what I learned here”
• OC’s Chinese-speaking Institute concluded with greater unity and cooperation
• Johannesburg Institute welcomed 25 leaders: “Thank you for making these Institutes possible”
• Southeast Asia Institute trains 24 school leaders
• 17 leaders attended Institute in Ethiopia
• Accra Institute concluded
• Large turnout at Guatemala City Institute
• Institute concludes in São Paulo, Brazil
• Third OC Institute concludes in St. Petersburg, Russia
• OC’s second Institute of 2008 - Prague, Czech Republic
• OC’s first Institute of 2008 - Cairo, Egypt
• Europe - September 10-14, 2007 - Frankfurt, Germany
• South Asia - July 23-27, 2007 - Kandy, Sri Lanka
• Southeast Asia - July 4-7, 2007 - Manila, Philippines
• South Africa - June 26-29, 2007 - Cape Town, South Africa
• East Africa - June 18-22, 2007 - Nairobi, Kenya
• West Africa - June 11-15, 2007 - Lomé, Togo