Mobile Theological Training Team (MT3)
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Dr. Whytock serves as the Team Leader for MT3 and has taught and lectured in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America. He was ordained in 1988 and has been a church planter and pastor. In addition, he has been involved in theological education since 1994 as Dean of Haddington House. He is editor of the Haddington House Journal and has authored over one hundred articles and An Educated Clergy (Paternoster, 2007). He resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada and has been with MT3 since its inception in 2003.
Dr. Carson (ordained 1973) has pastored two churches in the Charlotte, NC, area and was a professor of historical theology at Erskine Theological Seminary. He later served as president of Erskine College and Seminary. He has co-edited To Glorify and Enjoy God (Banner of Truth) and also serves World Witness as the pastoral counselor for the Secular Europe field. He lives in Flat Rock, NC.
Dr. Galletta served for five years in Moscow, Russia, as a theological educator before joining MT3. He was ordained in 1992 and has been a pastor in Edmonton and Maryland, the latter with a very multi-cultural urban congregation. He currently resides in Greenville, SC, and has taught in Mexico, Africa and Eastern Europe.
Associate Teaching Member:
Dr. Hering is the Associate Professor of New Testament at Erskine Seminary, SC. He has been involved in missions in Belgium, France and extensively in Germany, where he served for twelve years, mainly in Berlin (ordained 1993). Before serving in Berlin, he worked at a church in Tampa, Florida. Because of his fluency in German, Dr. Hering assists at the Martin Bucer Seminary in Germany.
U.S. Address:
World Witness, One Cleveland St.
Greenville, SC 29601 U.S.A.
Website: www.worldwitness.org
Canadian Address:
Haddington House, 99 North River Rd.,
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 3K6 Canada
Email: haddingtonhouse@eastlink.ca
The need today
From the 1980s to today there has been an increasing emphasis upon a renewal of theological education for the mission context. There is an incredible need in nation after nation for trained leadership.
In the “Manifesto on the Renewal of Evangelical Theological Education”, this need is set forth in the preamble:
We rightly seek such renewal in light also of the crisis of leadership facing the church of Christ around the world. The times are weighted with unusual challenge and unusual opportunity, demanding of the church exceptional preparation of its leadership. In many areas the church is faced with surging growth, of such proportions that it cannot always cope. In many areas the church is also faced with open hostility without and hidden subversion within, distracting and diverting it from its calling. Everywhere the opportunities and challenges take on new and confusing forms. The times demand an urgent quest for the renewal of theological educational patterns, that the church in its leadership may be equipped to fulfil its high calling under God.
(International Council for Evangelical Theological Education [ICETE].
2nd edition © Copyright 1990)
How does MT3 work?
An institution (eg. a college or seminary) or church body overseas contacts MT3 about helping to provide theological education and training. Discussions occur to determine whether we can provide the appropriate specialized instruction to suit the institution or church body. If we find we can, then a modular teaching unit is prepared and an MT3 team member is sent to undertake the instruction. Ordinarily, this will include administering examinations and grading assignments. On occasion the training may be in the form of continuing education for a church body where a desire has been expressed for ongoing theological education. MT3 is a specialized ministry of World Witness, the foreign mission board of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
The qualifications of team members
All team members have:
- advance graduate degrees, usually the Ph.D.
- previous cross-cultural teaching experience
- both pastoral and teaching experience
- certification by the World Witness Board
The vision and mandate for MT3
- To help equip biblical Christian leaders to be effective pastors, teachers, evangelists, missionaries and lay leaders.
- To educate and train future Christian leaders in their own culture and nation through institutions in their region.
- To offer a cost-effective way to strategically equip indigenous
leadership for ministry. - To offer Biblical teaching committed to the inerrant Scriptures
and historic Evangelical and Reformed theology.