CAIT News

Letters from a region at work.

CAIT writes to its friends and partners when there is something to tell them: a class that graduated, a graduate who stayed when it would have been easier to leave, a room in Baghdad with ninety-five people in it. Every issue we have sent is here, in full.

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Four CAIT students standing in a circle praying together in a classroom, one with a hand on another’s shoulder, in front of a whiteboard listing Arabic city names. — Students praying together in class, Beirut Campus.

Issue 007Crisis Update

The War in Lebanon

Airstrikes four miles from the CAIT building — and classes carrying on.

With over a million people displaced, online classes and campus students serving local churches keep theological education alive.

Beirut, Lebanon

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The archive

Issue 006
President’s Letter
A Christmas Letter from our President
Micah 5:2, Bethlehem, and what God does with what the world overlooks.
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Issue 005
Ministry Update
Ministry in Egypt
Thirty-four pastors, teachers and ministry leaders spent a day learning how to teach Scripture so that it lands in ordinary life.
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Issue 004
Ministry Update
A Season of Thankfulness
Over 95 ministry leaders gathered in Baghdad for two days of hermeneutics — and a program for bi-vocational leaders is on the way.
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Issue 003
Alumni Story
The Church in Syria
A 2013 graduate now leads four congregations across southern Syria — and kept his church open through the conflict.
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Issue 002
Graduation
Celebrating Our Graduates
Six graduates, named — including Mazen Chehadeh, who finished every course while being treated for cancer.
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Issue 001
Ministry Update
Discover God’s Work in the Arab World
The first letter to friends and partners: who CAIT is, its 89 graduates by country, and a word from the president.
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