ITEM’s purpose and philosophy of ministry spring from the belief that the most effective evangelism, discipleship and church planting occur not by exporting American institutions and methods, but by equipping national believers with the biblical tools to do the work of ministry in their own cultural context. Not only do we believe this to be a biblical model for missions, we believe it is a particularly strategic model. We further affirm the importance the Bible places on the teaching office of pastors in equipping these national believers (Ephesians 4:11-15, Romans 10:12-15). Therefore, ITEM works in a support role with national churches in the establishment and operation of programs to provide pastoral training. By sending professors, financial resources and resource/reference materials, ITEM can train many pastors whose ministry and influence will far exceed that of transplanted westerners.

Under the authority of Jesus Christ, the mission of His Church is to evangelize, comfort and encourage, instruct and disciple His people among the nations, teaching men and women everywhere to observe all things that Christ has commanded and equipping them for and in His Service, and all to His Glory (Mat. 28:18-20; Acts 1:6-8).

Their practicum the students fulfill in local village where the Gospel has never been heard before

The mandate of the Church is accomplished through the proclamation of the one True Gospel (Ro. 1:16-17) in home and world missions to the end that the Kingdom of God shall prevail upon the earth (Mat. 6:10) and that every person so chosen shall acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ (Phil. 2:9-11) and by opposing all that sets itself against the knowledge of God and the Truths of His Revelation, both general and special in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and wholly, thereby, endeavoring to bring every thought captive to Jesus Christ (2 Co. 10:4-5).

This then is the mission of all men and women chosen by God, in Christ, and called unto life by His Holy Spirit. And it is the mission mandate and calling of International Theological Education Ministries, Inc. (and each and all of its particular works) to endeavor to do all things Biblical, legal and necessary to fulfill these objectives in the lands of the Russian, Ukrainian, and neighboring peoples - teaching, equipping, and equipping and training the leaders of God's people for God's people.

By those means, toward those ends, for His purposes, I.T.E.M., Inc. shall then proclaim by means Biblical, legal and appropriate the whole counsel of God according to Scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments in the securing of prayer, labor, resources, and finances for the instruction, equipping, and discipleship of God's people by means of theological education facilities, seminaries and institutions for theological preparation and ministry, libraries and literature, first in Russia and Ukraine and then as God leads; and in all things endeavoring to practice faithful stewardship of God's grace in talents, skills, resources, people and things material and spiritual.

“Laboring in our Lord’s Harvest is no burden, it is gratitude for grace”
cf. Luke 10
“Stewardship is what man does after he says, ‘I believe’”
W.H. Greever