Statement

Our Mission Statement?

Our mission is to make available a resource in training for mission and ministry. This resource takes the form of distance learning modules of appropriate study, to be available to students unable to attend local training colleges and courses. It is also available to use as supplementary material to students enrolled for local courses, as and when recommended by the local course tutors, or as a training programme for leaders in a local church.

Our goals in training are:

To raise the level of competency in leadership and ministry to adequately respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
To encourage workers to strive for excellence, and not to settle for mediocrity.
To prepare and equip those called of God to reach the un-reached and un-evangelised people groups, through pioneer evangelism, planting churches, and discipling the saints, in order that New Testament churches can be established.
To be committed to the cross-cultural pollination of our training efforts, through the exchange of ministry gifts, students, and other resources. Our aim is in that the church be brought to the fullest expression of Christ, and manifest the manifold wisdom of God to the powers in the heavenlies (Eph.3.10 Gal.3.28).
To establish a Biblical understanding of the New Testament pattern of the church (i.e. body life, function, government, and spiritual gifts), and to establish a Biblical theology, and the practical implementation of the fivefold ministry(Eph.4.11).
To provide the opportunity for every believer in the local church to be taught, trained, and equipped to be men and women of integrity, who are sensitive and obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit, with a passion for Christ, his church, and the world.
To develop a sense of social responsibility, which is expressed through the church, in response to the needs of the community.
To fulfil the great commission to disciple the nations, through the establishment and development of Christian schools and colleges.

Our aims are

The aims of the courses are primarily to give preparation for ministry and mission, whether paid or lay.
The courses are targeted at overseas situations where attendance at a residential college, or other local course, would be difficult, and where financial support would be limited. Our typical target student will be in a ministry/mission situation already, or preparing to be so.
It is expected that those taking the courses will have some secondary education experience, but will not necessarily have gained formal qualifications.
Modules are also available to supplement courses offered at ICLC and other colleges, at the discretion of the local college.
Modules are arranged to facilitate use as a church training programme for leaders in a local church.

Our Statement of Faith is

We believe in, and base our instruction upon, the following doctrines.

The unity of the Godhead and the divine co-equality of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit; the sovereignty of God in creation, providence and redemption.
The true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; his virgin birth; his real and perfect manhood; the authority of his teaching and the infallibility of all his utterances; his work of atonement for sinners by his vicarious sufferings, his death, his bodily resurrection and his ascension into heaven; his present priestly intercession for his people; his coming again as bridegroom of the church and as judge of all.
The full inspiration of the holy scriptures; their authority and sufficiency as not only containing but being in themselves the Word of God; the reliability of the New Testament in its testimony to the character and authorship of the Old Testament; the need of the teaching of the Holy Spirit to a true and spiritual understanding of the whole.
The reality of original sin in consequence of the fall, and the necessity of regeneration.
The justification of the sinner solely by faith through the atoning merits of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit in conversion and sanctification, in ministry, in worship, in baptism and in the exercising of spiritual gifts through the body of believers.