Nations Training Institute has joined hands with several key ministry partners to help facilitate God’s work in the nations. Below is a brief description of each partner and the unique work we do together.

Words of Life Ministries in Cambodia
Steve Hyde, founder and director of Words of Life, provides leadership training and materials for more indigenous leaders than any other ministry in the nation.

NTI works with Steve and his staff to provide training materials and to perform leadership schools in several provinces in the more remote regions of the nation. Cambodia is the first nation where NTI has endeavored to establish its Media Training Centers. Presently, there are three areas being targeted for these centers.

Mission Barnabas of East Africa
Ronnie Matheny established Mission Barnabas to serve the emerging church in the countries of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya serving alongside his mother who oversees Clarence Matheny Ministries and his brother who pastors the largest English speaking church in the nation.

His desire is to connect the resources of the church in America with the needs of the church in Africa. NTI sponsors leadership conferences alongside of Mission Barnabas and is planning to launch Media Training Centers in the rural areas of Uganda and Kenya as resources become available.

The Home of Blessing in Chaing Kham, Thailand
Sayan and Siriporn Kusavadee saw the need many years ago to minister to the needs of young girls being sold into the prostitution trade of Bangkok. In response, they started the Home of Blessing by actually purchasing girls from the villages in order to save them. What began in their home with just a few girls, has now blossomed into two dormitories that house 120 girls.

Besides this powerful mercy ministry, Dr. Kusavadee desires to establish a training center for the village and rural pastors of Northern Thailand. He also desires to set up Media Training Centers in the more remote areas of the tribal areas in the northern part of the country. NTI not only helps to resource the Home of Blessing so these young girls can be saved physically and spiritually, but we are partnering with the Kusavadees to bring much needed training to the pastors and church leaders of Thailand.

Equippers Group International of Euless, TX, USA
Joe and Jo Hughes are no strangers to missions. Having served as missionaries in Europe and the Philippines for 15 years and then serving the training needs of leaders worldwide from Singapore for another 10 years, they now have based their ministry in Texas in order to create leadership materials that will help serve thousands of leaders globally.

As the founders and directors of EGI, their purpose is to resource the church leaders of the world with simple, Biblically sound, and culturally sensitive materials. These materials are geared to not only establish these new church leaders in the Christian faith, but to also enable them to turn around and disciple the new converts in their churches. It is the privilege of NTI to help write some of the training manuals in EGI’s “Getting Equipped Series”.

David and Janene Waldrop
David and Janene are now administrating all of Schools of Leadership Training in East Africa. Living in Nairobi, Kenya, that have access to the indigenous leaders in numerous countries in East Africa.

David and Janene Waldrop have served in Kenya since 2008. They are the parents of 5 children and have 4 grandchildren. Their youngest daughter, Jullianne, serves with them. They have been developing a growing burden for the African Continent since their trip to Botswana in 2005. Their ministry is named MALACHI (www.malachi-ministries.org)  and they work alongside the Clarence Matheny Leadership Training Institute (www.cmlti.com).

Both David and Janene have had a calling on their lives for third-world missions since their youth. God has so graciously and mercifully given them this opportunity to meet His calling and they have set their faces towards Him and their lives towards the task set before them. 

David is a graduate of Carson Newman College and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Having pastored several churches, he realizes that God’s call and his passion at this point in his life is to train church leaders in East Africa. He retired from the United States Army Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel. His pastoral training, military experience and 10 years as a Nursing Home Administrator has prepared him well to train other leaders as the Holy Spirit gives him favor and wisdom.

Janene is also a graduate of Carson Newman College and has studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She has spent 13 years homeschooling all her children. She is providing guidance and training for Kenyan educators serving the slums of Nairobi. She also will work with mothers, helping them to grow in their parenting skills.