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2 THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES 3 2017 ANNUAL REPORT
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Dear Friends,
As we stand on the cusp of Third Millennium Ministries’ 20th year of operation, I continue to be tremendously humbled by the sheer number of people who have partnered with us to bring biblical education to church leaders around the world for FREE.
By God’s grace, Third Millennium Ministries has grown from a friend and me working in the extra bedroom of my home to a ministry involving people from all over the world. Third Millennium is no longer a small non-profit organization headquartered in Orlando; we are an international network of partners committed to raising up a new generation of well-equipped church leaders so that every Christian can have a well-trained pastor.
We have now entered the third phase of our ministry. The Holy Spirit has led us through earlier phases where we focused on demonstrating it is possible to produce a free, seminary-level curriculum and increasing the efficiency of our production. In phase three, we are concentrating on saturating the globe with our curriculum so seminary education is within reach of every Christian around the world. We are actively engaging over 114 partner ministries, producing our seminary curriculum in new languages, and freely distributing it at every level of technology imaginable. We are well on our way to reaching our goal of 100 million supervised students around the world.
There have been many friends who have prayed for and supported us through the years. I thank you for your generosity. I am more grateful for you than you can imagine. And to all those who have yet to join us in this critical global mission, I hope that this annual report encourages you to catch the vision. Third Mill is impacting the global church, and we hope you will join us in this service to our King and His church around the world.
In Christ,
Dr. Richard L. Pratt, Jr.Co-Founder and President
Our Global Opportunities Team (GO Team for short) is our new initiative and is responsible for increasing the distribution and enhancing the use of our curriculum all over the world. The GO Team focuses on forming partnerships with individuals, churches, and missionary organizations to distribute our curriculum and to train people in how to use our materials.
REFLECTING ON OUR LAST YEAR
1PROOF OF CONCEPT Demonstrate it is possible and sustainable to produce a free, seminary-level curriculum.
PRODUCTION Increase the speed at which we complete the curriculum without sacrificing the quality.
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION Saturate the globe with our curriculum and ensure it is available to all Christians who desire a seminary education.
GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES TEAM
DEVELOPING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
HOSTING TRAINING SESSIONS
WRITING TRAINING MANUALS
CREATING APPLICATION GUIDES
GO Team supports our users by:
Dr. Pratt greeting Rev. Dr. Imad Shehadeh, Founder, President, and Senior Professor of Theology at Jordan Evangelical Seminary
Third Mill Students in Cuba
THREE PHASES OF THIRD MILL
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Romans 10:13-15 ESV
4 THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES 5 2017 ANNUAL REPORT
*Contains our two-year curriculum // **An ultra-low-cost credit-card sized computer
651,849
12
320
44
196 107
2,286
16
114
coursesoffered
USBs distributed this year
languages offered 5 core & 11 non-core
total partnerships
percentage of the world reached through our
core languages
professors featured in our courses
deviceoptions
registeredstudents
Since 2012, Third Millennium Ministries has partnered with Birmingham Theological Seminary (BTS) to provide a free Certificate in Christian Ministry to anyone outside of the United States who completes the Third Millennium curriculum through BTS.
FIVE-YEAR PARTNERSHIP with Birmingham Theological Seminary
GLOBAL
In January, Third Mill’s Vice President of Strategic Development, Len Hardison, and one of our ministry partners traveled to Cuba to visit various groups that are using Third Mill’s curriculum. Their time at Los Pinos Nuevos Seminary and in the city of Santa Clara were among the most encouraging.
Los Pinos Nuevos has been using our curriculum for the past three years. One of their goals is to train indigenous church leaders to lead the next generation of Christians. Cubans rarely leave the town where they were born, so having these indigenous leaders come to the seminary is not an option. Instead, Los Pinos distributes our courses to the pastors in rural parts of Cuba so they can receive a quality biblical education without leaving their community. When they met with a group studying Third Mill at a church in Santa Clara, everyone was speaking simultaneously about how much Third Mill meant to them. One man in his mid-70s said, “I would never have dreamed I could have gotten this kind of education at my age. And I don’t have to go anywhere! I have a Ph.D. in my living room.”
MEETING OUR STUDENTSCUBA
Stephen Spanjer (pictured on left), a missionary based in Germany, taught at a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in October. At this conference, Stephen and his brother Bill gave away 150 USBs filled with Third Mill’s English curriculum and the attendees were exposed to doctrinal truth. Conference attendees started watching Third Mill lessons that same day. After the conference, the organizers received many calls thanking them for the USBs and asking profound questions about the lessons they had been watching.
When describing the conference and response to the USBs, Stephen said:
YOUR FRUITFUL INVESTMENTKENYA
“I am able to incorporate what I’ve learned into ministry at my local
church.”
“The program is well packaged, spiritually enriching, and theologically balanced.”
“The content is informative, interesting and broad in scope. So
thankful for this course.”
DEVICE OPTIONS FOR THIRD MILL CURRICULUM
“This was a worthy and fruitful investment for the Kingdom. This is what Kenya needs next; it is
what Africa needs next.”
TESTIMONIALS FROM BTS STUDENTS
THIRD MILL AROUND THE WORLDOUR STORY IN NUMBERS
countriesusing IIIM
| | | | | | | | |||AUDIO BROADCASTDVD MOBILEMANUSCRIPT VHS RASPBERRY PI**
ELEARNING TABLETUSB* MICROSD* DOWNLOAD
Students in Santa Clara
6 THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES 7 2017 ANNUAL REPORT
Canal Peniel Camojà Guatemala
China Association of Reformed Theological Seminaries
Cornhill Scotland
Desoto County Academy
E. Stanley Jones College, New Deli, India
Edutech Mission
Emanuel for Christian Books, Tapes & Gifts
Equipping Leaders International
Evangelical Youth Ministry Sohag – Action Group
Glory Outreach Assembly
Harmony Theological Seminary
Instituto Biblico – Theològico EDUCA
ISAFEOCRI
LAMP Theological Seminary
WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES& THE FREE STUDY BIBLEMany Christians are in need of a study Bible in their own language. Unfortunately, the study Bibles currently available are heavily copyrighted and, as a result, the international church cannot legally translate them. This need has prompted us to begin creating a FREE study Bible that will be available to everyone.
Through a partnership with Wycliffe Associates, this study Bible will be made available in the public domain, translated into multiple languages, and distributed worldwide. Wycliffe Associates accelerates Bible translation around the world by empowering national translators and equipping the local church to translate God’s Word into every language. Because of Wycliffe’s expertise in Bible translation and our expertise in theological education, this partnership is a perfect fit. The potential impact of this project for God’s kingdom is greater than we can imagine.
The Argentine Bible Society (ABS), an arm of United Bible Societies, provides Bibles and other resources to a network of 13,000 churches. They also provide the pastors in their network with biblical curriculum. Through a formal partnership with The Grace Institute, ABS is building learning centers throughout the country where people can gather, study Third Millennium’s lessons, and participate in the Teleios program.
Teleios is the learning experience offered by ABS to pastors and church leaders of Argentina where they can participate in studies consisting of, but not limited to, Third Millennium Ministries’ curriculum. Through Teleios, they will watch Third Millennium lessons and go through study guides. Their goals are 1,000 registered and trackable students studying through the Teleios program and expanding this model to the countries surrounding Argentina.
ARGENTINE BIBLE SOCIETY& TELEIOS LifeChange International
Middle East Association for Theological Education
Myungsung Medical College
Naioth School and Taiwan Levites
PTS College and Advanced Studies, Inc.
Regent University Bible 270
Sabiduria Libros
Seminario Biblico Reformado
Seminario Virtual Evangelico Juan Knox
Serving Ministers of Christ
Teaching Along the Way
THEOn
World Evangelical Theological Institute Association & EdBrite
Yayasan Edukasi & Sosial 21 (YES Indonesia)
NEW PARTNERSHIPSREACHING THE GLOBAL CHURCH THROUGH OUR PARTNERS
THE NUMBER OF CHRISTIANS WHO NEED WELL-TRAINED LEADERS is so great that we have formed numerous formal and informal partnerships with individuals, churches, and missionary organizations. We continually seek out new partnerships to expand our reach. We firmly believe saturating the globe with biblical education takes the cooperation of Christians everywhere.
28 NEW PARTNERSHIPS
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NEW RELEASES FROM JULY 1, 2016 T0 JUNE 30, 2017
FrenchAmharicGreek PortugueseHindi MongolianKinyarwandaIndonesianFarsiKoreanRomanianOur full curriculum is available at
thirdmill.org/seminary
Although we produce five languages in-house, several ministries, schools, and individuals have generously volunteered to translate our curriculum into their own native languages.
As of June 30, 2017, our materials are being translated into numerous additional languages:
BIBLICAL EDUCATION: OUR NEW COURSES OUR CURRICULUM IN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES
Elham Abu Rahmeh, Rev. Sherif Gendy and Mina Yousef
Our in-house team
ARABIC LANGUAGE TEAM
Vanessa McKenna & Seydi CreechOur in-house team
SPANISHLANGUAGE TEAM
ENGLISH
SPANISH
ARABIC
CHINESE
RUSSIAN
Third Millennium Ministries creates, publishes,
and distributes a free multilingual, multimedia,
seminary-level curriculum in five core languages.
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Third Millennium is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) and meets their
standards for best practices. Adhering to these standards, 76% of our budget is dedicated to the advancement of our
curriculum and 24% is dedicated to operations.
FISCAL YEAR BUDGETTotal: $4,180,771
Mrs. Janie P. Pillow | Brandon, MSFounder and ChairpersonLicensed Therapist
Dr. Richard L. Pratt, Jr. | Orlando, FLCo-Founder and President
Mr. Peder Johnson | Jackson, MSCo-Managing Partner at BKD, LLP
Mr. Montgomery Martin | Memphis, TNCEO at Montgomery Martin Contractors, LLC
Mr. William M. Mounger | Jackson, MSCEO at TriStar Technologies
Rev. Edward Norton | Memphis, TNAssociate Pastor at Independent Presbyterian Church
Dr. Greg Perry | St. Louis, MOFaculty at Covenant Theological Seminary
Judge C. Ashley Royal, Sr. | Macon, GASenior United States District Judge
Mr. John Wilfong | Memphis, TNSenior VP of Investments at UBS Financial Services, Inc.
2016 - 2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Richard L. Pratt, Jr. | Co-Founder and President
Mr. Larry Gwaltney | VP of New Production Initiatives
Mr. Len Hardison | VP of Strategic Development & Marketing
Rev. Andrew S. Lamb | VP of Global Opportunities & Distribution
Mr. Eric Linares | VP of Production
Mr. Ra McLaughlin | VP of Creative Delivery Systems
Mr. Dave Pillow | VP of Global Distribution & Strategic Partnerships
THE IIIM EXECUTIVE TEAM
Through the investment of like-minded individuals, churches, and organizations, we will continue to pursue and accomplish our ambitious goals in pursuit of our mission in the coming years. Here are some of our goals:
EVERY CHRISTIAN
DESERVES A WELL-TRAINED
PASTOR
Development
Administrative
Program Services
76%
5%
19%
Foundations
Individuals
Churches
Businesses & Organizations
15.80%
5.42%
60.04%
18.73%
Create A Free Study Bible That Can Be Translated Into Any Language
Gain Strategic Relationships To Spread God’s Kingdom On Earth
Continue Producing The Highest Quality Curriculum
Track 100 Million Registered Students
Add Non-Core Languages
Establish Partnerships
OUR COMMITMENT TO FREE BIBLICAL EDUCATION
FISCAL YEAR DONATIONS EXPANDING OUR IMPACT
IIIM 20th Anniversary CelebrationFebruary 8-9, 2018 | Orlando, FLApril 19-20, 2018 | Memphis, TN
Conference at the SeaOctober 30 - November 11, 2018
thirdmillcruise.com
JOIN US FOR OUR 2018 EVENTS
OUR VISION