Last Updated Oct 22, 2009

East Africa
2009 continues to be an incredible year of growth in East Africa. NTI president, Ron Hogue, spoke to over 1200 leaders from five countries in March. The statistics of what these leaders represent is staggering. These 1200 leaders represent…

9,048 churches
589,944 church members (This does not reflect 2 bishops who oversee 2 major organizations which represent 900,000 members and another bishop who oversees 86,000 members)

Since that conference, David Waldrop has come on board full time starting five schools for NTI. One of these schools is in Swahili. All of the lessons are translated into Swahili and are recorded on CD by an indigenous pastor. Plans are in the works to begin 25 schools in 2010.

The School begun in Jiri, Nepal continues with great enthusiasm. These leaders trek for days out of the Himilayaian mountains to come to this remote outpost in order to study the Bible. NTI is the first organization to find and help these remote frontline leaders. Presently about 50 leaders are committed to the four year school of leadership development.

NTI is beginning a hunger project where people can donate funds in order to buy a substance that helps the most extreme malnourished survive. To find out more about this project, called Project 638, visit www.project638.com

Andrew Rankin, board member and curriculum writer for NTI went to a mountainous region of Mexico to train leaders in October, 2009. From this trip, contacts were made that connected NTI to hundreds of remote pastors needing training. Yet another open door.