NEMI is the training arm of the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA), an organization that spearheads the mission thrust of the Church in Nigeria. Established in 1986 as a joint Institute for NEMA member agencies and church denominations, and has been preparing cross-cultural missionaries to bring in God’s harvest ever since…
Training Ethos
NEMI training is geared towards whole person transformative learning through a three-part curriculum as follows:
“Head – Heart – Hands”
where ‘Head’ signifies cognition (knowing and doing), ‘Heart’ signifies emotion (feeling and attitudes), and ‘Hands’ signifies relations (connecting and relating).
How NEMI started…
NEMI was founded as a result of the vision of late Bill O’Donovan, an SIM missionary, who saw the need for the specialised training of Nigerian missionaries. While he was teaching in a Bible school, he met many well qualified Nigerian Christians with a strong sense of God’s call to be missionaries. They did not know where to get cross-cultural training without going overseas. In 1982, nine mission agencies formed the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA). Two years later, at the suggestion of O’Donovan they decided to organize a training school for Nigerian missionaries as a corporate venture. NEMI operation commenced fully in 1986 and till date has been committed to cross-cultural training of prospective missionaries for frontier missions.
MISSION
To serve the body of Christ in Nigeria and Africa by providing practical mission trainings that make prospective missionary candidates spiritually formed into the image of Christ and equipped for effective service in God’ mission across cultures.
VISION
To see the unreached and unengaged peoples and places in Northern Nigeria, North Africa and the Middle East engaged and discipled by Christlike and competent missionary graduates from NEMI.