From Our CEO

Dear Friends,

In this issue of Ethnos360 magazine, we are focusing on how the Lord has used Ethnos360 Bible Institute (EBI) in the cause of the gospel.

My wife, Sharon, and I met at EBI, then New Tribes Bible Institute, back in the late 1980s. It is difficult to overstate the impact it has had on our lives. Two years studying nothing but the Scriptures. Two years sitting under the teaching of some of the best Bible teachers I have ever known.

Many of us who have graduated from EBI will testify that, going in, we thought we had it all together. Having been raised in Christian homes and excellent churches, we thought we knew what we needed to know about God’s Word and how to live as believers. We had so much to learn!

The teaching and discipleship that takes place at EBI continues to transform lives today. This was clear as Sharon and I met last week with the 2026 graduates of Ethnos360 Training Center (ETC). A significant percentage of EBI graduates move on to ETC to prepare for cross-cultural church planting. As they shared with us how the Lord had led them to this point in their lives, EBI came up consistently.

Geoffery told us how little of God’s Word he understood when he and Rachel arrived at EBI. Eager to serve God on the mission field, they could not have discerned good doctrine from bad. They are now rooted in sound doctrine and are headed to Papua New Guinea. Another couple, R and B (names withheld for security) told us that, in the car on their way to EBI, they wanted each other to know that they had each decided separately that they would not be drawn in by the missions focus of EBI. The Lord had other plans, I guess, as they are now headed to Asia.

Ethnos360 Bible Institute is a critical part of Ethnos360’s missionary mobilization. God uses His Word, taught with clarity, to grow, shape and direct the lives of His servants.

In Christ,

Steve Sanford, Ethnos360 CEO