IICCHas trained Christian leaders for over fifty years. It has conducted approximately 100 short training courses in Africa and Asia, founded the first Christian University in Africa (Daystar University, Nairobi;1971), and in 1995 the WorldView Center in Portland - a live-in training center for international students, and now the World Link Graduate Center in 2007.
It has developed formal and informal partnerships with Majority World agencies around the world. Our formal international partners, the Third World Mission Association (TWMA) and the Arab World Evangelical Ministry Association (AWEMA) have specifically asked IICC to help standardize their curriculum, develop it to internationally-acceptable standards, and further develop a corps of master teachers from existing faculty of Majority World mission training centers. IICC will also aid the centers through on-going consultation.
IICC is led by an inter-culturally experienced Board of Directors; one each from Peru, Ghana, Egypt, and India, six from Oregon, two from elsewhere in the USA; most have earned doctorates. An Executive Director leads daily operations. The Graduate Center has four staff members based in Portland (Dean, Associate Dean, Registrar/Admissions Officer, and Business Officer). Instruction is led by an experienced, decentralized faculty. Visit website TWMAIn 1988 and 1989, 45 leaders of the rising missions initiative from African, Asian, and Latin American churches met in Portland, Oregon to share experiences and insights. This was their first opportunity to set and follow their own agenda concerning missions to yet unreached peoples. They chose to meet again in Portland in 1989, and formed the Third World Mission Association to continue discussions on the best ways to cooperate. TWMA’s first chairman was Dr. David Cho of Korea. The current chair is Dr. Obed Alvarez of Peru.
At subsequent meetings (in Indonesia, Japan, USA, and a number of regional consultations), efforts were planned for mutual aid financially, coordinated training programs, sharing of experienced personnel, a strengthened voice for peace and justice, and development of materials to guide mission from and to the "Third World".
The commission concerned with training initiated the World Link University in 1990 as a coordinating program to gain international recognition for the many missionary training centers of Third World missions, provide a common core curriculum, and develop a corps of master teachers that could be exchanged between centers to ensure adequate training at all TWMA-affiliated centers. A Core Curriculum was developed in the early 1990s. The World Link Graduate Center is designed to help the centers achieve international standards and recognition, and to implement a corps of master teachers. Brief History of TWMA.pdf AWEMAThe Arab World Evangelical Ministers’ Association (AWEMA) is an indigenous Evangelical organization working through the body of Christ in the Arab world (22 countries) for the unity, growth and equipment of this body to have and effective Christian presence in the Arab communities. It is composed of Arab evangelical ministers (pastors and laymen) from different Evangelical denominations and backgrounds. AWEMA works in 18 Arab countries in the following regions: Middle East, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the African Horn. Visit website CrossWorldCrossWorld was founded as Unevangelized Fields Mission in 1931 with 36 missionaries serving in the Congo and Brazil. Today nearly 400 missionaries serve on 80 teams in 25 ministry areas of the world. They serve the church around the world by mobilizing teams to make disciples and train leaders. Visit website
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