TEE in Asia: Empowering Churches, Equipping Disciples (Icete)

The church in Asia is growing with unprecedented speed, raising new challenges in the realm of effective, contextualized discipleship. Can this growing church nurture biblical training that is relevant to the contexts, communities, and livelihoods of its believers?

In this immensely relevant book, the Increase Association shares its practical wisdom on how to utilize Theological Education by Extension as "Tools to Equip and Empower" all believers for kingdom work. TEE in Asia provides a foundational understanding of TEE's history, theological underpinnings, and methodology, while casting a vision for the expanding role of TEE in the twenty-first century. Filled with testimonies from church communities throughout Asia, this book provides concrete examples of TEE's effectiveness in a wide variety of contexts and the innovative work of the Increase Association which connects, strengthens, and represents the national TEE movements. It invites the reader to partner with God's work through prayer and tangible action.

HANNA-RUTH VAN WINGERDEN is Communications Coordinator for the Increase Association. She served in Central Asia for four years with the GZB, a Dutch mission organization, and has been involved in English language education since 2010. She has a master's degree in history from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

TIM GREEN has been using TEE to serve the indigenous church in Asia and the Arab world for over thirty years, including as General Secretary of the Increase Association from 2015-2021. He holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

GRAHAM AYLETT is General Secretary of the Increase Association, Vice-Chair of the Trustees of SEAN International, and a member of the Asia Theological Association's Commission on Accreditation and Educational Development. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK.