eNews from NTS
November 2009

PRESIDENT'S CORNER


NTS President Ron Benefiel

NTS: A MISSIONAL SEMINARY SERVING A MISSIONAL CHURCH:  We have adopted this as our theme for the 2009-2013 quadrennium.  Rather than a convenient or catchy slogan attached to any outreach or missionary activity of the Church, the concept of being MISSIONAL is theologically rooted and intentional with significant implications for the future ministry of the Church.  Further, the understanding of NTS as a missional seminary emerges out of months of conversations and strategic planning that include the re-visioning of NTS around missional themes.  Read more...

NTS AWARDED GRANTS FROM TWO NATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

In the past year, NTS has received the two largest grants in the organization’s history: 

The Kern Family Foundation awarded NTS $500,000.  Funds will be used to  assist the Seminary in our work to re-vision NTS as a MISSIONAL SEMINARY.  Read more…

In addition, The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded NTS $400,000 to assist in the development of a global consortium of graduate schools, including the development of a collaborative Doctor of Ministry Degree between NTS and APNTS.  Read more…

NEW NTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES & ALUMNI COUNCIL


At the recent General Assembly in Orlando, a new NTS Board of Trustees was elected, and a new NTS Alumni Association Council was announced (having been elected by their peers in the months prior).  View the rosters of both groups...

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