Dear Students,
Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year to You

What a year 2023 has been for TCM! God has answered prayers, He has protected, provided, and amazed us. And your success and spiritual growth as a student has been a focus of those answered prayers and God’s provision. A few examples:

  • TCM began our discipleship training in Kenya four years ago. To date more than 60 Kenyan students are in TCM’s master’s degree program. We have 33 new Kenyan applicants that have been accepted into the program beginning in January 2024, bringing our total to nearly 100! And in April of 2024, TCM will host our first graduation celebration in Nairobi, Kenya as 14 students graduate.
  • TCM began our first class in Liberia in August 2023 with 19 students. As those students continue with upcoming classes a second Liberian cohort of 20 students begins in January!
  • More than 200 volunteers have served hours upon hours at Haus Edelweiss beginning with the 2023 Winter Work Crew (January 2023). Throughout the year, each of 10 sessions (academic sessions, graduation sessions, and doctoral colloquium) at Haus Edelweiss had dedicated volunteers cooking, cleaning, and serving in a variety of roles allowing our students to complete their course work. We hope you were able to experience firsthand the servant leadership those volunteers provided. They loved serving you!
  • We celebrated two graduations with TCM with more than 100 TCM graduates at our Graduation Celebration in May and July. Such gatherings had not been possible since 2019 due to a pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
  • We commissioned 13 organizational chaplains during the May Graduation Celebrations, introducing a new component to our training.
  • TCM’s several Mentoring Centers throughout Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and beyond have been successfully active in serving you as well.

The ultimate result of all the above is that more people will hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. We thank God for this reality, and we thank you for being a part of this impactful work to which we are called.

As thousands of people around the world pray for you and TCM, we encourage you to pray for one another and the mission of TCM. As we come to the end of 2023 and enter what we pray will be another remarkable year of serving our Lord Jesus, please know that our prayer focus is to serve and equip you to know and love our Lord Jesus more and more each day.

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year to You!
TCM International Institute.