About ITA
Our history
Anthony Rossi’s evangelistic trips to Messina, Italy, grew into a church that eventually became Bible Alliance Mission (later renamed Aurora Mission). Aurora Mission was originally designed to send and support missionaries to establish churches in Italy. However, as our annual FOCUS conferences exposed Italian church leadership to expository preaching, these leaders expressed a desire to learn how to preach in an expository way to their congregations. Consequently, the School of Expository Preaching, a two-year course with 2 two-week modules, was developed in 2004.
Because students from the school have requested continued training, the Expository Preaching Program has become now just one of several programs under the Italian Theological Academy (which remains a branch of Aurora Mission). As the years went by more programs have been added: Systematic Theology Program, New & Old Testament Bible Survey Programs, a Church History Program, and a Biblical Counseling Program. More programs continue to be evaluated and added based on the ministry needs that are presented to us.
In addition to these programs, annual FOCUS conferences continue to provide insight and encouragement for those serving the church in Italy.
- Learning to preach the Old Testament August 9, 2010How does an understanding of the Old Testament help my Christian life and ministry? How do we understand books like Job where so much suffering is present? What is the theme of Isaiah? How do we interpret Proverbs? What is the purpose of the minor prophets? How do we preach and teach the OT? Students [...] […]
- Learning to live biblically August 9, 2010Thank you for your prayers! Introduction to Biblical Counseling was a true blessing from the Lord. The professor not only shared profound insights from the Word of God that dealt with helping people be more like Christ, but he also shared many wonderful testimonies. One particularly moving and impactful story was about a young man [...] […]
- The importance of Biblical Counseling August 3, 2010Throughout the week of August 2nd to the 6th there will be 23 students from different parts of Italy gathered at ITA to study the importance of counseling from a Biblical perspective. The focus will be on the principles and practice of applying the Word of God to the lives of individual believers and married [...] […]