NEW ENGLAND
SCHOOL OF MISSIONS
The New England School of Missions was the original pilot school funded by Beam Missions Foundation. Established in 2010, NESM became the prototype school that the other programs would be modelled after. For the past decade NESM has graduated 28 students and has sent out half of them to serve churches overseas in London, Oxford, Zurich, Madrid, Milan, Prague, Berlin, Budapest, and Sydney.
Meet the Director!
NESM in Europe
Students that have or are currently serving abroad: 14
European churches led by NESM Grads:
Milan, Italy
Prague, Czech Republic
Madrid Spain
Zurich, Switzerland
Graduate Spotlight!
Steve Schnell, Providence RI
Will Lambert, Madrid Spain
Fun Facts!
Mission Field
Population: 495.5 MILLION
Current Students: 23
Local churches led by graduates: Burlington, VT Storrs, CT
Meet Katy
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? Romans 10:14-15
Paul said these words two thousand years ago, and today their message is still true. Preachers can’t preach unless they’re sent. It’s a good thing, then, that the School of Missions is in the sending business. I became a disciple of Jesus five years ago while in college in downtown Boston. I was an atheist, having grown up with an entirely non-religious childhood; thus, I had a lifetime of biblical knowledge to catch up on. I knew nothing of Bible interpretation, denominational differences, or church history, so I began building my Bible knowledge with a “clean slate.” I deeply desired to be “sent,” but first I needed to be trained. I entered NESM and found the classroom I had always wanted. The men and women who sit in that room with me for six hours every other Tuesday are my mentors. They are also my friends. Our conversations inspire me. They compel me to take my convictions deeper and my faith higher.
What I love most about NESM is that it’s not an end in and of itself. It’s not education for the sake of education. It’s a launching pad. I love being an intern in the Boston downtown campus ministry but someday, I long do more than that. The training God gave me through NESM helped me convert Muslims, Buddhists, and atheists on campus. It will help me do the same all over the world. The training God gave me through NESM helped me kick start momentum at a university that hadn’t seen consistent conversions in over a decade. It will help me do the same all over the world. The lessons I learn from NESM greatly help me in my day to day ministry. Even so, what makes them more valuable than anything is that they are lessons that fill a toolbox that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. The School of Missions’ investment in me is a short term watering that will yield a lifetime of fruit that lasts. NESM is in the sending business. It helps me to sing with confidence, “Here am I, send me.”
Meet Murvi.
My name is Murvi Babalola and I graduated from the New England School of Missions in May 2019. I lead the campus ministry in the South Coastal Region of the Boston Church. NESM taught me the transformational impact of training. Jesus walked with his disciples for three years and turned them from a ragtag group of outcasts and pariahs into a brotherhood of world changers. Similarly, in the three years I spent in NESM, I was given tools that shaped me into an effective minister of the gospel.
As a student leader in college, I spent semester after semester trying to crack the code on inspiring a culture of engagement, building family, moving hearts and multiplying leadership potential. The results were negligible. With the training I received from NESM, though, I was able to lead my campus ministry, which had started with ten disciples at the beginning of 2019, to have 12 baptisms that year. But the New England Schools of Missions does so much more than just train the next generation of effective leaders and missionaries. It sets young men and women on a journey of discovery. As I sat in the classrooms, worked on the assignments, and went on the summer mission trips, I found many gems that weren’t in the syllabus at all. I learned things about my character that have changed my walk with God. I built friendships, forged through the shared miseries of final paper deadlines and challenging ministry situations, that still remain my closest ones.
I developed a heart for world missions when I planned and led a trip to Odessa, Ukraine and then joined the European School of Missions for a conference in Prague.
