OUR MISSION
International Theological Seminary serves as a world-class training organization, equipping pastors and community leaders to transform their local communities into vibrant places of worship, mission, and justice. As such, we value providing high-quality education to our students at an affordable cost.
With the theological education and formation received at ITS, our graduates are uniquely qualified to return to their home countries equipped with exceptional ministerial leadership.
OUR IMPACT
Trained local leaders serving their own people bring inherent credibility and unparalleled impact. ITS students have lived, walked, and served as leaders in their countries and are intimately acquainted with the culture, language, challenges, and opportunities of the communities they serve. Their passion to share the Good News of Jesus Christ is expressed in compassionate, culturally-relevant ministries. ITS graduates represent over 30 countries around the world including Indonesia, India, Nepal, China, Korea, and many other countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America.
OUR INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
WE ARE INTERNATIONAL
The students, staff, faculty, and board members of International Theological Seminary (ITS) are from all over the world. Although the students at ITS are diverse ethnically, it is important to emphasize that a common purpose binds them together. The ITS student body is a genuine epitome of the expression “Unity in Diversity.”
WE ARE REFORMED
We welcome and admit students from different backgrounds representing a broad cross-section of denominational affiliations. However, we teach, follow, and guard the essentials of the Reformed faith because the ITS community believes that the Reformed theology most accurately represents the teachings of the Bible. While emphasizing the tradition of the Reformed faith, we maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world. In order to respond appropriately to the world and churches, we endeavor through spiritual and academic programs to combine the teaching of the inerrant Word with all matters pertaining to today’s culture and Christian life.
WE ARE MISSIONAL
Our strategy is to train established local and international community leaders to transform their communities into vibrant places of worship, mission, and justice.
OUR BELIEFS
WE BELIEVE GOD'S WORD IS INFALLIBLE
We believe that the Bible is God's infallible written Word, uniquely inspired by the Holy Spirit, written without error and that it is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.
WE BELIEVE IN THE TRIUNE GOD
We believe in the Triune God, Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier; in the atoning death and victorious resurrection of Jesus Christ and His return to judge the living and the dead, and in the forgiveness of sin, and the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH
We believe that Jesus Christ is the head of the Church, which is His body, composed of all those whom He has gathered to himself by his Word and Spirit since the beginning of the time, and that we are members of this Church. To this Church, He has given the commission to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations.
THE TEACHINGS WE HOLD ARE FAITHFULLY REFLECTED IN THE WESTMINISTER STANDARDS, THE BELGIC CONFESSION, AND THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.