International Institute For Christian Studies/ IICS

Summary

International Institute for Christian Studies (IICS) places faculty from a wide range of disciplines in teaching positions at secular universities outside North America and the UK. They also establish Departments of Christian Studies, provide library collections, sponsor business and teacher training seminars and provide curriculum consultation. IICS teaches all subject matter from a Christian worldview in secular university classrooms. All IICS Teaching Fellows have graduate or professional degrees - most with earned doctorates. IICS is a nonprofit organization and contributions to it are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. In addition, it is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Purpose [ Back to top ]

International Institute for Christian Studies (IICS) places faculty from a wide range of disciplines in teaching positions at secular universities outside North America and the UK. They also establish Departments of Christian Studies, provide library collections, sponsor business and teacher training seminars and provide curriculum consultation. IICS teaches all subject matter from a Christian worldview in secular university classrooms. All IICS Teaching Fellows have graduate or professional degrees - most with earned doctorates.

IICS is a nonprofit organization and contributions to it are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. In addition, it is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

Programs offered by IICS include:

Christian Leadership Program:
IICS provides accredited university training for pastors, church leaders, denominational officials, laypersons and students by establishing Departments of Christian Studies in public universities.

Christian Worldview Program:
IICS Professors lecture from a wide range of disciplines and teach from a Christian worldview. Students are challenged to investigate the claims of Christ and to understand the importance of biblical principles in personal and national development.

Professional Teacher Training Program:
IICS provides in-service training for secondary school and university level instructors. These teachers are taught Bible content and interpretation, teaching methods, basic Christian doctrine and English as a Second Language.

Christian Research Library Collection:
IICS provides Christian books, journals and other academic materials for public university libraries.

International Business Leadership Workshops:
To assist in their university business programs, IICS invites outstanding Christian business leaders to volunteer their time and expense for three to ten days to speak at universities and to build relationships with business students and professors and with business leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate executives in the business community overseas. Christian businessmen and women can help shape emerging business leaders and even the economic systems themselves, by sharing their experience and expertise, by building relationships, by providing counsel when asked, by listening and learning, by making disciples among business students, professors and others, and by praying.

Mission Statement [ Back to top ]

IICS communicates its mission statement as follows:

Develop Godly Leaders

The Mission of International Institute for Christian Studies is to bring glory to God and impact the world by developing godly leaders for every sector of society - government, business, home, church, the arts, law, the sciences, education - as we provide key universities and academic institutions with educational services and Christian faculty who teach and live in such a way as to draw others to faith and transformation in Christ.

Program Accomplishments [ Back to top ]

IICS is the only organization in the world dedicated to placing Christian instructors in secular universities outside of North America as full-time faculty members. This unique ministry seeks evangelical academicians, professionals and business leaders to teach in public universities overseas.

Statement of Faith [ Back to top ]

IICS uses the following to express its Statement of Faith:

We believe in the Holy Scriptures as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy; and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct...

One God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...

Our Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, His sinless human life, His divine miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension, His mediatorial work, and His personal return in power and glory...

The Salvation of lost and sinful man through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith apart from works, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit...

The Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the believer is enabled to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ...

The Unity of the Spirit of all true believers, the Church, the Body of Christ...

The Resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.


----------------------------- The above statement is their theological affirmation as members of the World Evangelical Alliance. The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy serves as an official commentary on the IICS Statement of Faith.

Each professor, board member and staff member is required to affirm their adherence to the IICS statement of faith.


---------------------------- Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
(Shortened version)

The authority of Scripture is a key issue for the Christian Church in this and every age. Those who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are called to show the reality of their discipleship by humbly and faithfully obeying God's written Word. To stray from Scripture in faith or conduct is disloyalty to our Master. Recognition of the total truth and trustworthiness of Holy Scripture is essential to a full grasp and adequate confession of its authority.

The following Statement affirms this inerrancy of Scripture afresh, making clear our understanding of it and warning against its denial. We are persuaded that to deny it is to set aside the witness of Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit and to refuse that submission to the claims of God's own Word which marks true Christian faith.

1. God, who is Himself Truth and speaks truth only, has inspired Holy Scripture in order thereby to reveal Himself to lost mankind through Jesus Christ as Creator and Lord, Redeemer and Judge. Holy Scripture is God's witness to Himself.

2. Holy Scripture, being God's own Word, written by men prepared and superintended by His Spirit, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches: it is to be believed, as God's instruction, in all that it affirms; obeyed, as God's command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God's pledge, in all that it promises.

3. The Holy Spirit, Scripture's divine Author, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning.

4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God's saving grace in individual lives.

5. The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible's own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the Church.

History [ Back to top ]

1986:
Exploratory efforts launched and organization founded in Overland Park, Kansas, USA, on November 24.

1987:
Contract signed in December with Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to establish a Department of Christian Studies.

1988:
Dr. Danny McCain and family move to Nigeria in August to inaugurate the first IICS Department of Christian Studies at Rivers State University of Science and Technology in Port Harcourt.

1989:
Contracts signed with other Nigerian universities to establish Christian Studies departments. Affiliate organization established in Great Britain.

1990:
Department of Christian Studies established at University of Jos, Nigeria.

1991:
IICS professors begin teaching in Russia, Ukraine and Romania. At Moscow State University, Dr. Dan Clendenin teaches "A Christian Worldview" course required of all the students in what had been the "Department of Atheism."

1992:
Thirteen IICS full-time professors teaching in various countries in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

1993:
New IICS programs started in Hungary, Poland, Belarus and Asia.

1994:
Successful pilot project for the Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) Teachers Training Program in Nigeria. Affiliate IICS organization, Christian Studies International, established in Canada, headquartered in Toronto.

1995:
Affiliate IICS organization established in South Korea.

1996:
IICS trains public school CRK instructors in several Muslim states in northern Nigeria.

1997:
Efforts begun to develop a Teacher's Manual which will assist instructors in Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) at Nigerian secondary schools. Program welcomed in the Muslim states of Nigeria. Twenty-two professors teaching in eight nations including Russia, Belarus, Romania, Czech Republic and Nigeria.

1998:
Historic curriculum revision project initiated in China. Testing of CRK Teacher's Manual in Nigeria. Partnership established with Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA) for long-term placements of medical instructors at medical schools overseas. Leadership Development Fund launched. Sergei Kiriyenko, former student of IICS professor Brian Burnett, appointed by Yeltsin as Prime Minister of Russia.

1999:
Twenty-two professors teaching in eight nations. Protocols established with universities in Nicaragua.

2000:
Fifteen professors teaching in six nations. Sponsored the first American Business Leadership Workshop in Southeast Asia. Dr. Richard Smith appointed as Interim President of Anglo-American College (AAC) in Prague, Czech Republic. The second in the CRK (Christian Religious Knowledge) Teacher's Manual series is released in Nigeria. First edition of a Teacher's Manual for the Faith-Based AIDS Awareness Program for Nigerian secondary school teachers released.

2001:
Twenty-four professors in seven nations. Groundwork laid for IICS-Australia. Established partnerships with new universities in Hungary, Ukraine and in Southeast Asia. Shipped more than one ton of business books to partner universities in Europe and Asia. Pilot test of the Faith-Based AIDS Awareness course in Nigeria's Plateau State is successful. IICS honored with an award from the Christian Community Foundation in Kansas City. Established partnership with the Institute for Sino-Christian Studies of Hong Kong.

2002:
Twenty-seven professors teaching in nine nations. First IICS professor teaching in Saharan Africa. New partnership established with Wisconsin International University in Kiev, Ukraine.

2003:
Twenty-five professors teaching in nine nations. First professors placed in Brazil. Trained 120 university professors in a war-torn Muslim nation in Central Asia. More than one ton of academic books shipped to partner universities in Europe, Asia and Africa. IICS receives First Place Excel Award for Servant Leadership from the Christian Community Foundation in Kansas City.

2004:
Thirty-two professors teaching in twelve nations. Faith-Based AIDS Program taught in Nigeria. Established partnership with Institut fuer Weltmission und Gemeindebau, based in Bonn, Germany. The Teachers’ Manual for Instructors of Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) for the Ninth Grade is published.

2005:
Thirty-seven professors teaching in fifteen nations. IICS professors help sponsor a historic conference on Intelligent Design in Prague, Czech Republic. IICS is honored by the Servant Christian Community Foundation with a Passion Award.

Ministry Needs [ Back to top ]

Opportunities for Impact

A recent survey by The World-Leaders Almanac found that over ninety-percent of the world's current heads of state graduated from a university or institution of higher education. Imagine the difference in the world if these leaders had been exposed to the truth of Jesus Christ in university classrooms taught by evangelicals who presented their disciplines from a Christian worldview.

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Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Leadership Training Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		125 of 348	6 of 16
Fund Acquisition Decision		125 of 348	6 of 16
Resource Allocation Decision		of 348	13 of 16
Asset Utilization Decision		of 348	13 of 16