New World Mission Dunamis International University

is

an international university based in Africa, the UK and the USA.

Global Education as never before.

Offering affordable degree courses to disadvantaged communities.

We need to open education and development to everyone now! 

We invite partners from around the world to help us in Africa to offer affordable degree courses to disadvantaged communities.

NWMD International University formulated its mission as follows:

To provide …

An education for your head...

A seminary community is a community of scholars. We have gathered in classroom and office, in library and lecture hall to engage in rigorous academic investigation. We believe that in a postmodern world when the Christian faith is less and less understood, when the Bible is for many people a closed book, and when aberrant views of faith abound, it is crucial that our students be thoroughly trained in Biblical studies, church history for church planting and theology.

Techniques for ministry and skills for pastoring and teaching are important, but without the intellectual foundations, you will fail. Our scholarship is always in the service of the Church, but it is scholarship!

Our faculty personnel have been trained at some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world and have impressive lists of publications and academic achievements.

Most of them also have extensive and ongoing experience in the local church, on the mission field and as hospital or military chaplains. They engage you in classes or self-study. Degree Bible School students receive a great deal of personal attention from faculty as they mature intellectually and spiritually.

Our graduates have gone on not only to posts in ministry, but also to doctoral programs in outstanding institutions in South Africa, United States and around the world.

Education for Your heart...

Seminary education, however, is more about formation than information. It is more about who you are becoming than what you know.

Spiritual formation is at the heart of education. Each student in our Master's degree programs is required to participate in a spiritual formation group. In these groups, students and faculty challenge one another to grow in understanding of themselves, the Scriptures and God.

The prayers, reflections and conversations in these groups engage the students regarding who they are becoming in Christ. A tender heart is as important for ministry as a finely honed intellect: a heart for people who need Christ; a heart for those suffering and struggling; a heart for justice and peace in a broken world.

The closer we grow toward God, the more God's concerns become our concerns, and God's heart becomes our heart.

At New World Mission Dunamis University we want you to learn how to worship and pray and listen to the God who passionately reaches out to this world.

Education for Your hands...

Having said all this, you must do more than prepare for ministry —you must do ministry.  A store that is always taking inventory, training clerks and stocking the shelves but never open for business, will soon be bankrupt.  And however well-prepared we are, there must come a point at which we open our Bibles with a seeker or pray at the bedside of a sufferer or stand in the pulpit for a listener.

The Degree Bible School Department wants its students to have hands-on experience of ministry.  Within this catalogue, our field education and internship program is explained and the opportunities for service in this area and beyond are explored.

We are committed to students leaving Degree Bible School not only knowing how to minister, but also having been engaged in personal evangelism, pastoral care, teaching and preaching.  A wide variety of individualized ministry experience is possible for the student who has a special calling.

Education for Our community

Over the years, New World Mission has placed a very high value on life in community. Communal activities —whether weekly times of Worship, prayer and Holy Communion, potlucks and informal gatherings for socializing and support, or the practical help of moving in or out, helping with the kids, or sharing a skill —are the heartbeat of the school.  At its best, the local church is a Community of care, faith, worship and accountability.

Those things can be learned in the seminary community along with the formal learning of the curriculum.

Our community also includes the Free State, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Gauteng and its rich resources of learning, working, worshipping and serving.  One of the great advantages of seminarians is the Association of Theological Schools.  This consortium of seminaries provides students with a rich opportunity for cross registration.  Special joint offerings provide Unique Ecumenical opportunities.  The library and research resources in the area are without peer.

Our community also includes the Church of England, Presbyterian Church of Africa, Assemblies of Christ Federal and Community Development NGO's.

The believing community of this university was formed from three principal influences: the Protestant Reformation, the Lutheran Church of Sweden and the great spiritual awakenings of the 19th century.  Throughout the new life that comes through a personal relationship and encounter with Jesus Christ was emphasized.  It insisted that the Bible is the word of God and the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine and conduct.  It has also valued a tradition of freedom and openness to all who love Jesus Christ. While firmly committed to the central tenets of historic Christianity, the believing community has been open about issues that have often divided Christians.  Various views of baptism, of eschatology, of spiritual gifts, of the atonement and of church order are to be found among them. It is not that they thought these things are unimportant —they are vitally important —but they recognize that many wonderful believers in Jesus differ on such things and they were unwilling to separate from them, even if they disagree among themselves.  This makes communal life both a challenge and a joy.