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CETI: Closing the Gap Between the Latin American Church’s Belief and Its Embodied Witness.
CETI's Graduate Programs
Our Impact
A vision for 2030
This site invites you to celebrate what we do and to explore supporting our work.
Grassroots Education
CETI's Objectives
CETI's Funding Needs
Connect with us!
Our Impact
Evaluations from our participants show that students emerge from CETI programs with a spectrum of learnings that profoundly shape their perspectives and actions, especially by motivating them towards engagement with their local communities. While everyone’s journey is unique, a common thread emerges: CETI instills a sense of responsibility to respond to local needs through service.
How and where do students use what they’ve learned?
- At local associations, clubs, and schools: Pursuing solutions to their communities’ problems as they aim to show God’s love through both actions and words.
- In the workplace and small business ventures: Seeking to serve God through their work, by collaborating well, working ethically and transparently, and supporting colleagues.
- At church: Sharing learnings with other members.
- At home: Reexamining their attitudes and actions to pursue respect and mutuality in their families.
Hear from Pastor Galo, student of CETI grassroots education in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Check out this testimony from Laura Casasbuenas, CETI Graduate Program student living in Bogotá, Colombia
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We believe that transformation occurs in and through the lives of our students. From a software developer, to a self-help group facilitator, and a director of a movement for indigenous identity and theology, our students are encouraged to develop and live out a sense of Christian vocation in the diverse spheres in which they live and serve. Our students are not removed from their ministries to study; rather they integrate the rhythms and activities of their studies in their day-to-day. While our students cannot be grouped into a singular area of work or service; most identify as missionaries, teachers, NGO leaders, and bi-vocational pastors looking to CETI to equip them and, through them, their communities for holistic gospel-centered living.
Graduate Programs
"I thank CETI for the financial support they have facilitated that has enabled me to carry out my graduate studies. I joined this community two years ago and, for me, the learning experience has been freeing." - Mefi López
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Grassroots Education
Open Courses
Theology is a dynamic, communal task linked to everyday life. In flexible and open online spaces, participants are free to explore the questions that arise from every corner of human existence: in pop culture and stories, through race and power, from cultivating to coloring... CETI’s innovative online programs offer space for learning to people from varying backgrounds and any stage of life. Regardless of where participants are on their theological journey, they are challenged to reflect critically and transform their practice.
Certificate Programs
How does holistic mission get into the lifeblood of the Church? And what happens when it does? CETI’s certificate level program is notable for its tendency to disrupt and radically refocus churches. The story of Elim, a mega church in El Salvador, is exemplary. Some members who disagreed with the transformations occuring left the church, but those who stayed were mobilized. Members turned their focus to marginalized communities and people entrenched in gangs; women began to teach and lead; cell groups in the neighborhoods of San Salvador grew thanks to the authentic questioning and relationships modeled by facilitators.
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CETI’s Objectives
By 2030...
- Graduate 600 people from grassroots education programs equipped to live out a radical and holistic faith in their local communities
- Develop a library of 20 innovative open courses for permanent online access
- Prepare 50 church, organization, and business leaders to lead from a deep, committed, and genuine faith in their contexts.
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Our Funding Needs
CETI needs long term partners who passionately believe that theological formation should be accessible for the whole Church: women and men, people from all types of educational and work backgrounds, from the rural mountains of Honduras to the favelas of Brazil!
Our Graduate Program is currently 65% subsidized, and the rest is contributed by students working together collectively as a cohort to finance the costs of their studies. Donations to the graduate program can help us maintain the program accessible by keeping costs to students as low as possible. CETI’s Grassroots Education Programs are subsidized at about 90%, with students paying between $4 and $20 per module, depending on their income level. Most students of these programs make very little income and cannot afford theological studies. CETI is looking for partners willing to contribute to our general fund. Your support will be used wherever it is most needed at this time as we serve the Latin American Church as it seeks to live out God’s Kingdom and justice holistically, authentically, and transformatively in the Latin American context. Lastly, you can bless CETI directly by volunteering your gifts, skills, and time. By supporting one of our ongoing programs, participating in a short term project, or amplifying awareness efforts, you can work with us to impact the Latin American church!
Grassroots Education
Graduate Programs
General Fund
Donate Time and Skills
A vision for 2030
- A diverse and healthy ecosystem of organizations, churches, seminaries, and individuals collaborating together for the holistic transformation of our societies.
- Leaders equipped in every country of Latin America who are addressing the major challenges of their communities from their commitment to faith in Christ.
- Individuals (re)turning to an active life of faith due to the testimony of churches and Christian leaders who embody authenticity and integrity.
- Communities moving toward greater sustainability, equality, and holistic wellbeing due to a living, holistic, and faithful testimony of the gospel in distinct Latin American contexts.
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CETI: Closing the Gap Between the Latin American Church’s Belief and Its Embodied Witness.
CETI's Graduate Programs
Our Impact
A vision for 2030
This site invites you to celebrate what we do and to explore supporting our work.
Grassroots Education
CETI's Objectives
CETI's Funding Needs
Connect with us!
Our Impact
Evaluations from our participants show that students emerge from CETI programs with a spectrum of learnings that profoundly shape their perspectives and actions, especially by motivating them towards engagement with their local communities. While everyone’s journey is unique, a common thread emerges: CETI instills a sense of responsibility to respond to local needs through service. How and where do students use what they’ve learned?
Hear from Pastor Galo, student of CETI grassroots education in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Check out this testimony from Laura Casasbuenas, CETI Graduate Program student living in Bogotá, Colombia
Donate Today
We believe that transformation occurs in and through the lives of our students. From a software developer, to a self-help group facilitator, and a director of a movement for indigenous identity and theology, our students are encouraged to develop and live out a sense of Christian vocation in the diverse spheres in which they live and serve. Our students are not removed from their ministries to study; rather they integrate the rhythms and activities of their studies in their day-to-day. While our students cannot be grouped into a singular area of work or service; most identify as missionaries, teachers, NGO leaders, and bi-vocational pastors looking to CETI to equip them and, through them, their communities for holistic gospel-centered living.
Graduate Programs
"I thank CETI for the financial support they have facilitated that has enabled me to carry out my graduate studies. I joined this community two years ago and, for me, the learning experience has been freeing." - Mefi López
Donate Today
Grassroots Education
Open Courses
Theology is a dynamic, communal task linked to everyday life. In flexible and open online spaces, participants are free to explore the questions that arise from every corner of human existence: in pop culture and stories, through race and power, from cultivating to coloring... CETI’s innovative online programs offer space for learning to people from varying backgrounds and any stage of life. Regardless of where participants are on their theological journey, they are challenged to reflect critically and transform their practice.
Certificate Programs
How does holistic mission get into the lifeblood of the Church? And what happens when it does? CETI’s certificate level program is notable for its tendency to disrupt and radically refocus churches. The story of Elim, a mega church in El Salvador, is exemplary. Some members who disagreed with the transformations occuring left the church, but those who stayed were mobilized. Members turned their focus to marginalized communities and people entrenched in gangs; women began to teach and lead; cell groups in the neighborhoods of San Salvador grew thanks to the authentic questioning and relationships modeled by facilitators.
Donate Today
CETI’s Objectives
By 2030...
Donate Today
Our Funding Needs
CETI needs long term partners who passionately believe that theological formation should be accessible for the whole Church: women and men, people from all types of educational and work backgrounds, from the rural mountains of Honduras to the favelas of Brazil! Our Graduate Program is currently 65% subsidized, and the rest is contributed by students working together collectively as a cohort to finance the costs of their studies. Donations to the graduate program can help us maintain the program accessible by keeping costs to students as low as possible. CETI’s Grassroots Education Programs are subsidized at about 90%, with students paying between $4 and $20 per module, depending on their income level. Most students of these programs make very little income and cannot afford theological studies. CETI is looking for partners willing to contribute to our general fund. Your support will be used wherever it is most needed at this time as we serve the Latin American Church as it seeks to live out God’s Kingdom and justice holistically, authentically, and transformatively in the Latin American context. Lastly, you can bless CETI directly by volunteering your gifts, skills, and time. By supporting one of our ongoing programs, participating in a short term project, or amplifying awareness efforts, you can work with us to impact the Latin American church!
Grassroots Education
Graduate Programs
General Fund
Donate Time and Skills
A vision for 2030
Donate Today