The 2014  annual meeting of AWF’s International Commission on Theological Education (ICTE) was held  in June, in New York at Nyack College. The ICTE focuses on issues related to theological education, theology, and critical challenges facing ministers and churches and it advises the AWF on key theological matters.

Meetings are held in the various locations where ICTE members serve. In 2013 it was in Abidjan; the next will be in Manila. During their visit to New York, they visited a number of historical sites affiliated with the C&MA. The picture shows the members at the gravesite of Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of The Christian & Missionary Alliance and Missionary Training Institute (Nyack College) are (l-r) Rev. Dr. Charbel Malak, academic dean of Christian Alliance Institute of Theology, Lebanon, pastor of Haret El Ballaneh Alliance Church; Rev. Dr. Walter Perez, director of Instituto Biblico Buenos Aires, Argentina, senior pastor of the Alliance Church in Vicente Lopez, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dr. Levi P. Quir, national executive minister, Division of General and Theological Education, Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Philippines; Dr. Ronald Walborn, dean of Alliance Theological Seminary and the College of Bible and Christian Ministry, Nyack College; Dr. Miguel Palomino, chair of the AWF-ICTE, president of Facultad Teologica de Latin Americana; Arie Verduijn, president of Alliance World Fellowship, Dr. Bernie A. Van De Walle, Ph.D., professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Theology Area Convenor, Ambrose University College; and Dr. Tona Khonde, general director (president) of the Complex of Theological Training of Bethel, Gabon.

The Alliance World Fellowship is organized in five regions:  Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe/Middle-East, North-America, and Latin America. Each region is represented in the ICTE. See a relevant article on the website of Nyack College:  http://www.nyack.edu/blog/NyackNews/1878