Northern Training Institute

training for church leadership in the context of your ministry

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    Northern Training Institute
    The Northern Training Institute provides an affordable, Bible college-level programme of study that enables students to integrate theological training with involvement in ministry through residential weeks, seminar days and guided reading. The Institute also promotes theological reflection on the practice of mission and ministry.

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    NTI is a ministry of
    the Porterbrook Network.

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  • What Students Say

    NTI Students

    "It's hard to imagine how part-time theological study could get any better!"

    "NTI has been extremely useful, teaching us to do theology in the context of local church ministry and giving us the solid foundations we need."

    "NTI was the perfect solution to my situation. I was co-leading a local church and working part-time so I wasn’t in a position to take three years out for Bible college. I needed a flexible approach to study and NTI was the answer!"

    NTI Students

    "NTI is both rigorous and practical in its study of theology: a safe forum to explore theological ideas and test assumptions under the authority of Scripture."

    "The monthly seminar days have been invaluable to my learning and applying learning to my context. I have very much enjoyed learning alongside fellow practitioners. NTI is great!"

    NTI Students

    "NTI has helped us gain a sound biblical theological understanding, but also left us room to reflect at some length on theological issues pertinent to our own current and future ministry situations."

    "The seminar days and residentials have been especially helpful: great fun as well as great learning, and real times of sharpening one another as iron sharpens iron."

    "Superb value for money!"

    NTI Students

    "I’d recommend NTI to anyone."

    "NTI has been a real blessing. Everything we study is directly applicable to the world we are involved with in the church."

    "If I’d set out to design a training programme ideally suited for me it would be NTI."

    NTI Students

Faculty

Tim ChesterTim Chester
Dr Tim Chester oversees the work of the Northern Training Institute. He is part of the Crowded House, a church planting initiative in Sheffield, UK, and co-director of the Porterbrook Network. He was previously Research and Policy Director for Tearfund and tutor in missiology at Cliff College. He is the author of a number of books including The Message of Prayer (IVP, 2003), From Creation to New Creation (Paternoster, 2003), Good News to the Poor (IVP, 2004), Delighting in the Trinity (Monarch, 2005) and The Busy Christians Guide to Busyness (IVP, 2006). He is co-author of The Gospel-Centred Church (The Good Book Co., 2002) and The World We All Want (Authentic, 2005) and series editor of The Good Book Guides (The Good Book Co., 2005). He is married with two daughters.

Steve Timmis is a co-director of the Porterbrook Network of which the Northern Training Institute is a part and a regular contributor to the Institute. Steve is a leader in The Crowded House, Sheffield. He was previously the founding director of Radstock Ministries, a mission agency facilitating the involvement of local churches in world mission. Steve co-wrote The Gospel-Centred Church (The Good Book Company) with Tim Chester and is the editor of Multiplying Churches (Christian Focus). He is married to Janet and they have four children and two grandchildren.