ITA Update - May 2022

Dear ITA Friends,

This past week ITA Board Member Roger Lang and his team completed the FIFTH Relationship Matters Course, (or RMC) that we have offered. RMC is the first of the LMC Online Courses. This past March 25th ITA Board Member Peter Nicoll and his team completed the first offering of the Working Together Matters Course, or WTM. This is the second of the LMC Online Courses. Our plans are to offer the WTM another time later in 2022.

So far, seventy-two (72) leaders have completed the online Relationship Matters Course and 12 of those have completed the Working Together Matters Course. These participants live and work in 21 different nations! Twenty-one (21) experienced LMC trainers have been involved in offering these LMC Online courses! We thank God for all of them!

Not only have the LMC Online courses encouraged those who have participated, trainers testify that their participation has also been life-giving: https://youtu.be/A1-CAIUwnFI

We are working diligently to be ready to launch the third and fourth LMC Online Courses later in 2022: Communication Matters and Life Management Matters. Please pray for these efforts!

Our team continues to work on the special adaptation of the LMC for Pastors. The launch date is set for September 2022. This will be an 8-month combination of residential and online training.

Residential LMCs have continued to be challenging in 2022. We have postponed till 2023 one PLM (French LMC) in Mali, one CLI (LMC in Spanish) in El Salvador, and three LMCs in English: Ghana, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. At the time of writing this update, the following residential LMCs are still moving forward for later in 2022 (follow the LMC Registration page for updates):

• Cameroon PLM (LMC in French): 16-28 October
• Thailand: 6-18 November
• Zambia: 6-18 November

Thank you for your prayer support during this time! Please PRAY for:

• The completion of the two remaining LMC Online Courses.
• Wisdom about planning future residential LMCs.
• More LMC residential trainers to get involved and that we can train new trainers for the online courses.
• Getting the word out to potential participants about our LMC Online Courses.
• A possible online (virtual) trainer training course.
• The new LMC for Pastors course—scheduled to begin in September 2022.
• The organisation of a second Working Together Matters course late in 2022.

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Jeff Turnbough, CEO