About Us

ITEM is a religious, charitable, educational, non-profit corporation serving in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. It is tax exempt and donor deductible.

 ITEM assists denominations and local churches by offering pastoral training at no cost to nationals.

 ITEM sends professors to teach at local institutions at regular intervals to equip pastors, teachers, and laymen and women to accomplish their God-given callings.

OUR MISSION

to provide Biblically-based, Reformed teaching and training worldwide to indigenous church leaders for ministry.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

believing that the most effective evangelism, discipleship, and church planting will be done by nationals in their own cultural context, we send pastors and professors to the students to minimize cost and to maximize learning opportunities in their own contexts near their families and ministries.