History
Beginning in 1979 and for 10 years during the oppressive communist regime, Entrust (then BEE International) carried out a program of clandestine training in Romania. Many leaders, including the present leaders of EBE, were trained in small study groups to serve the church and her needs.
With direct assistance and support from the Entrust organization and Entrust missionaries based in Romania, the indigenous organization Biblical Education by Extension (EBE) was established after the December 1989 Revolution. Pilot programs for developing Church Based Training Centers were launched in different geographical regions of the country. For these EBE gathered together students who were current or potential church leaders and worked with them to develop programs for equipping servant-leaders. In collaboration with Entrust and later with CRM and Elmbrook Church in the United States, money and human resources were invested . These were used for translating, contextualizing, editing, and employing our courses in equipping programs, as well as for implementing a vision and strategy that brings benefits to diverse evangelical movements. EBE has tried to develop and to maintain solid partnerships with all evangelical denominations and with larger local churches in our country. More and more CBTCs have been opened. Through their work, local churches have equipped people and then began to promote workers in their geographical zone.
Every evangelical denomination in Romania now has its own training system. And every training system has a leadership team under the direction of the system’s National Coordinator. Thus, we have training systems in the Pentecostal Church, the Baptist Church, the Brethren Church, and the Autonomous Evangelical Church Movement. We have a training system for Women’s Ministries. A training work in the context of the Lord’s Army movement is also under development.
