Individual Supporters -

I am blessed to participate in this endeavor, may the Lord cause it to bear much fruit. Thank you for providing an outstanding organization that I can give to with confidence knowing that the money is being well spent. God bless you all and please let me know the ministry needs that I might pray, serve, and give.
To His glory."

Mark Retzlaff

Thank you TMAI for all you are doing for foreign missions, in particular, the most important task of training men world-wide. My pastor is a graduate from The Master's Seminary, and I live in Utah. I cannot tell you how much I have seen the importance of having trained men to exposit and teach God's Word. These men seem to be rare in the US, though it is not for a lack of resources. In many other countries, however, it seems they are more needy -- for good men like TMAI instructors to model good teaching. Your efforts bring great joy, tears and encouragement. It is so wonderful to see how these men receive God's Word. It is the only thing that makes it worthwhile for me to go to work in a secular job, knowing that in a very tiny part I may contribute in making a difference.

May God Bless you all.

Italian Theological Academy donor, name withheld.

Visiting Pastor/Teachers -

The single, best strategy that I know to reach the world for Christ is the training of expositors to preach God's Word. Biblical preaching has always been God's primary means to evangelize the world. In one way or another, every other method takes a back seat to the primacy and centrality of the pulpit. As the pulpit goes, so goes the church—and so goes the church's mission to penetrate the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To this end, The Master's Academy has been raised up by God to train preachers around the world in the task of biblical exposition. This newly-formed organization is a global network of theological institutions, which has prioritized the same lofty mission—the educating and equipping of God-called men for the proclamation of God's infallible Word. The Master's Academy is passionately committed to raising up a new generation of biblical preachers, who will preach the Word, win the lost, plant churches, teach sound doctrine, and nurture believers.

I have had the privilege of being closely connected to this. I have personally gone to Russia and, later, to the Ukraine with The Master's Academy. I have seen first hand these training centers. They are par excellence! Our church has gladly chosen to partner with The Master's Academy in this noble endeavor. This relationship provides us a strategic missions involvement unlike any other association we could possibly have. I cannot adequately convey the excitement our partnership with The Master's Academy has thrust into our heart for missions.

I want to urge all churches and believers everywhere to partner with The Master's Academy. This ministry is all about God's work being done God's way for God's glory.

Dr. Steven J. Lawson
Senior Pastor
Christ Fellowship Baptist Church
Mobile, Alabama
www.christfellowshipbaptist.org

Supporting/Partnering Churches -

Extending biblical ministry worldwide! What a joy it has been to partner with the Training Center in Krapina, Croatia. Planting churches and training leaders in Croatia are weighty and worthwhile endeavors. Let me commend these choice men and their families to you for your consideration and support."

T. Scott Christmas, Pastor-Teacher
Grace Community Church
Jacksonville, Florida
www.gracejax.com

From personal experience I can tell you that The Master’s Academy International is supporting front line ministry in Samara, Russia. My trips to the TMAI supported Samara Theological Institute have been amazing. The dedication of the missionaries, the hunger of the students, and the effectiveness of the TMAI supported institute there is supernatural. God is raising up an entire generation of well trained expository preachers who are doctrinally sound. These preachers are being sent out to preach the Word of God with authority, accuracy, clarity and conviction.

Imagine what it would be like to have a full-time job and be the only pastor of a growing church. After Sunday you embark on a two-week unpaid leave of absence so you can be trained to preach the Word. You get on a train and take a two-day, thousand mile trek to the Samara Theological Institute. Then, for two weeks, you sit in a packed room of men, listening to someone speak in a foreign language through a translator! And you do this with joy, several times a year because you want to become a better preacher!

This is the kind of ministry that TMAI is supporting all over the world. By God’s grace TMAI is making it possible for pastors in foreign countries to receive top notch theological training and impact their countries through biblical preaching. I highly recommend that churches partner with TMAI through their prayers, financial support, and personal participation in training pastors to do the work of the ministry. TMAI makes it possible for even small churches and individuals to support a full-time, highly trained expository preacher in a foreign country. Prayerfully consider how God might have you be involved in this strategic ministry."

Jack Hughes, Pastor
Calvary Bible Church
Burbank, California
www.calvarybiblechurch.org

Training Center Team Leaders -

Recently one of our students (a dear pastor who is many years older than me) approached me after class with tears in his eyes. He confessed that he had for many years struggled in knowing how to fulfill God's purpose for his life. Holding my hand tight, he expressed heartfelt gratitude for the opportunity to be trained, and then left me with the words I will not easily forget ... "How I wish you had been here fifteen years ago."

As one who lives daily under the burden of the great needs and opportunities that exist to train men for leadership in the church, I have been tremendously encouraged by the establishment of TMAI. By God's grace and through their efforts, other faithful men in Russia will not have to wait fifteen years for their opportunity."

Brad Klassen, Team Leader and Lecturer
Samara Preachers' Institute and Theological Seminary
Samara, Russia

National Pastors -

Before I came to study at Christ Seminary, I was pastoring a church for nine years, preaching a gospel of error, thinking that I was doing a great work. But since I came to this Institute, I have realized a great change in my ministry. All those years I was leading God's people into darkness. Now I thank God for giving us lecturers who have a zeal of imparting men with the knowledge of the gospel of truth. I don't know how I can thank you for the great work that you are doing in this Institute."

Sam Mokone, Pastor
Polokwane, South Africa

National Church Members -

It is a great privilege and honor for me to study at Irpin Biblical Seminary. My life has been deeply impacted not only through the excellent teaching and disciplined studies at Irpin Biblical Seminary, but also through the great examples of my instructors. Their dedication to God's Word, sincere love for the students, passionate service to the Lord, and steadfast dedication to the truth, impresses and encourages me to faithfully serve the Lord. My current courses in the study of exegesis and the practice of expository preaching have greatly impacted my ministry. Due to my training at IBS, I have fully dedicated myself to the preaching and teaching of God's Word through the method of expository preaching."

Sergey Perevishko
Current M.Div. student at Irpin Biblical Seminary and Director of Irpin Bible School, Irpin, Ukraine
Ordained deacon and leader at Irpin Bible Church