MTI'S MISSION:
The Ministry Training Institute provides
theological formation for the Church,
through the Church.
Head, Heart & Hands
Our program is designed to form the whole person, concerning ourselves not only with simple knowledge transfer. Instead, our program is designed to engage the HEAD, cultivate the HEART and steady the HANDS. This has resulted in a program that not only consists of course work, but also employs intentional mentoring and intentional ministry service as core tenets. Students will also engage in personal assessments, independent study projects and several other activities throughout the program, designed to aid them in clarifying calling and equipping them fully for that calling.
Our Vision
Our vision is to see churches equipped with wise and theologically formed Christian leaders to who serve their families, ministries, and communities in accordance with the mission of God.
Core Goals and Principles
We define all academic acumen and ministry experience gained through the breadth and depth of the our programs as distinctively teleological and purposeful. In short, the end goal is not what you know but who you know and better still, who knows you.
We define the right and proper context of the church as not being called to pursue its own agenda, but to follow hard after God so that it is not that the church that has a mission but that the mission has a church.
We identify the transformative nature of discipleship rather than its mere cognitive accumulation. Our programs are designed to achieve theological formation, producing growth not just in knowledge, but in character and virtue.
We provide space for our students to slow down, reflect, contemplate and offer a reasoned response to their environment. More than that, we work to cultivate a biblical worldview in a way that effects more than what we think but also includes how we think as well.
We work closely and relationally with our students to uphold a standard of academic excellence, maintained throughout our programs, including all course work, seminars, and independent research in the track emphasis.
We seek to instill the idea within our students that our programs are not a means to an end, but as a part of their broader discipleship journey. As such, we work with our students to foster a spirit of lifelong learning and grounding in the Word of God.
Statement of Faith
As part of applying to the MTI program, students are required to affirm this statement of faith.
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
Philippians 2:6-11; 1 Peter 3:18; Romans 5:9; Matthew 26:64
We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
Titus 3:4-7
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
John 14:15-18; John 16:13; John 16:7-11
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
1 Corinthians 15:10-23; John 5:28-29
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:22-23; Acts 2:41-47
Faculty and Staff
Matthew Larkin, Director
BA, Trinity College, MRE, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, DMin, Bethel Seminary
Justin Nash, Executive Dir. of ACGC
BA, Thomas Edison State College
MTS, Midwestern Theological Seminary
Erik Reynolds, Ministry Year Coordinator
BA, Liberty University, MTS, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, DMin, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Matthew Rice, Field Director (Eastern NC)
BA & MA, Clark University, MA (in progress) GCTS
David Richards, Research Librarian
BA, Wingate University, MDiv, GCTS, MLIS (in progress), UNCG
Jesse Stevens, Field Director (Midwest)
BA, Aurora University, MDiv, SWBTS
Course Instruction and Design
Michael Alix, MDiv
Course Facilitator
Nathaniel Bickford, MAR
Course Design
Shaun Blankenship, MA
Course Facilitator
Matthew Broadway, MA
Course Facilitator
Adrian Dixon, DMin
Course Design, Course Facilitator
James Jensen, MCM
Course Facilitator
John Jones, DMin
Course Facilitator
Tom Loghry, MA
Course Facilitator
Thomas Moe, DMin
Course Facilitator
Justin Nash, MTS
Course Facilitator
Glenn Rice, DMin
Course Design
Timothy Soucy, MDiv
Course Facilitator
Jeffrey Walsh, MDiv
Course Design
Program Support
Andrew Blackstone
Technical Support
Blair Forgey
Administrative Support