Welcome to the website of Ministry Training International. The purpose of this site is to keep you updated and informed about the meetings, conferences, and all the other activities associated with teaching and training pastors and leaders abroad. We hope you’ll explore what we do and keep up on the activities abroad and here in the US as well, through the blog, photos, and videos.
Thank you for your interest in what we do.
David Grisanti
Mission Statement
Ministry Training International has been established for the benefit of Pastors, Christian leaders, Missionaries, Bible Colleges, and Christian organizations outside of the United States. The goal is to provide teaching and encouragement at the request of the organizations and churches abroad.
Christian leaders and pastors in the United States have a great deal of resource material at their disposal, relating to ministry. However, Christian leaders and pastors in some foreign countries do not have the wealth of resources, training, and encouragement from other leaders that are accessible to us in the United States. Many churches abroad face great challenges in the form of opposition from hostile religious groups and unsympathetic governments. It is therefore often difficult for those churches and their leaders to preach the Gospel, which is the foremost responsibility of Christians everywhere.
Thus, Christian leaders in the U.S frequently receive pleas for help in these areas. Often, the requests are to personally meet and teach groups of pastors, missionaries, and leaders. This requires travel. MTI exists for this reason, so that we will be able to answer the requests for help and yet be financially independent as an organization. In other words, MTI is not an extension of one particular church, nor funded by a particular church. MTI will exist and operate through the financial gifts of individuals, families, and any organizations that wish to contribute.
About David
Pastor David Grisanti, founder and President of MTI, made a commitment to follow Christ in 1970, at the age of 19. In the subsequent years, he has been active in ministry as a teacher at the Calvary Chapel Bible School, Assistant Pastor, Senior Pastor, and now with MTI. After serving as Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Silverdale, Washington for 27 years, he resigned in September, 2014, in order to focus his ministry efforts on training and helping pastors abroad. He began doing just that in 1991, when he was invited to go to Bulgaria and work with a group of young pastors. Since that time he has not only gone back to Bulgaria on many occasions, but has been invited to work with leaders in India, Asia, South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. It is his passion to go and assist pastors in the countries that do not have the resources that are easily available to Western churches. As he told the congregation of CCS when he gave his resignation speech, “When invited, I want to go to the churches and assist the leaders who cannot afford to fly me there nor afford to pay me to be there.”
David has been married to his wonderful wife Debbie since 1976. They have 2 married daughters, 4 granddaughters, and 1 grandson, and reside in Bremerton, Washington.