Global Theological Initiatives

Global Theological Initiatives seeks to employ the resources of Southeastern to benefit theological education through strategic partnerships around the world.

• Partnerships with majority world entities such as denominational conventions, seminaries, Bible colleges, and missions sending agencies.
• Educational cohorts for faculty, administrators, strategic denominational leaders, and local church trainers.
• Training for faculty to enhance their institution’s capabilities to deliver high quality training to the larger populations of national local church leaders within their context.
• Leadership training on six continents.
• Theological training where none existed.
• Adjunctive teaching for national entities in times of development.
• Institutional assessments of libraries, IT, curriculum, etc.

• The GTI process helps to develop leaders with self-theologizing capability.
• This longer-term approach encourages multiplication as graduates teach others (II Timothy 2:2).
• The initial students serve as cultural mediators and translators for the content being delivered to them by those outside their context.
• The focus is quality and not quantity.
• Courses are offered in language, when possible.

1. Potential partners request a GTI application and submit it to the appropriate GTI office.
2. Contextual pricing is decided.
3. The GTI Office and potential partner(s) develop a Memo of Understanding that outlines the details of the partnership.
4. A pre-determined curriculum map for the entire degree program is developed in collaboration with the partner. Contextual electives are selected to address specific needs or issues related to their specific situations.
5. Students are admitted into a GTI cohort through a carefully defined selection matrix of proven, positioned and potential leaders who are currently and/or preparing to serve as trainers with our partners for their national church leaders.
6. GTI cohorts are leadership development cohorts uniquely created for majority world leaders. Students in these programs study in separate course sections designed in cooperation with our partner to be as contextual as possible. These distance education cohorts are not open to the public nor are they extension centers of Southeastern.

• To assist the maintenance, stability, and growth of existing work
• To train positioned or potential leadership in seminaries, Bible colleges, mission boards, and Baptist Conventions.
• To promote the training of church planters/missiologists
• To train the next generation of scholars in strategic locations
• To begin with a formal agreement (MOU) and an “exit strategy”

• Identify like-minded, strategic partners entities
• Consider relationships between church planting, denominational, and educational institutions
• Consider the level of involvement
• Consider our strengths & resources
• Consider language options and needs
• Remain focused theologically & missiologically
  • Train faculty, administrators and/or other leadership for new and/or existing work through invitation-only cohorts of proven, positioned leaders trained on both certificate and degree levels.
  • Supplement existing faculty and curricula in adjunctive relationships.
  • Provide various levels of consultation for existing work.
  • Provide consultation and assistance to help begin new work.