Nigeria Evangelical Missionary Institute (NEMI)
The National
Training Centre for All Nations
Raising Kingdom
Advocates as agent of Transformation among the Nations since 1986
A bit of history
NEMI was founded as a result of the vision of
late Bill O’Donovan, an SIM missionary, who saw the need for the specialized
training of Nigerian missionaries. While he was teaching in a Bible school he
met many well-qualified Nigerian Christians with a strong sense of God’s call
to be missionaries. They did not know where to get cross-cultural training
without going to Britain or the United States. In 1982 nine missions formed the
Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA). Two years later, at the
suggestion of O’Donovan they decided to organize a training school for Nigerian
missionaries as a cooperative venture. NEMI operation commenced fully in 1986
and till date has been committed to cross-cultural training of prospective
missionaries for frontier missions.
