Dr. Dick O. Eugenio, current Academic Dean of APNTS, opened the school’s newest Master of Ministry off-site center in Mandalay, Myanmar by teaching two back-to-back courses in July 1-12. This is the realization of a year-long planning that started in 2018, and in conversation with Myanmar country coordinator Dr. Bill Kwon and Field Strategy Coordinator Rev. David Philips. The generous US$20,000 donation of the Asia-Pacific Region of the Church of the Nazarene through Regional Director Dr. Mark Louw made opening the center a possibility. 
Twenty students joined the classes, although several are taking them for audit. Majority come from the Church of the Nazarene, and some from Baptist, Assemblies of God and another Evangelical church. The average age of the class is 34.5, with two 20-year olds as youngest. Most of them are converts from Buddism and with amazing stories of conversion. In fact, two of them (Htet Paing Zaw and Htay Mu) have become Christians only 6 months ago through the preaching of another student, Saya Moe Kyaw Naing. The students have travelled far to come to Mandalay, and two of them (Ah Phu and Kyaw Naing Oo) travel 2 days via the train, one way.
The Master of Ministry is APNTS’s “Masters on Wheels” program. It is a 45-unit, non-residential degree, that equips men and women in their local situatedness. With the changing trend in theological education, where more practitioners do not wish to relocate to study and more ecclesiastical leaders do not allow their workers to leave their ministry settings, APNTS’ off-site program allows a great number of Asians to be equipped without moving to APNTS’ campus in Taytay, Rizal. APNTS already graduated students in this program from Papua New Guinea and two CAA countries.
