NAIITS is collaborating with Tyndale Seminary at Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, United States, to envision two shared endowed positions and corresponding theological centres for ministry preparation within Indigenous and diasporic Indigenous contexts.
This fall, the NAIITS-led Canadian Learning Community for Decolonization and Innovation is initiating several actions that have grown from asset-based conversations in each learning community.
NAIITS x Fuller: Indigenous Voices of Resilience in SoCal — a partnership between NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community and Fuller Seminary — runs Nov. 14 to 15, 2025, in the Travis Auditorium at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Bidding opens at 12 p.m. ADT Monday, Sept. 22, and runs through Tuesday, Sept. 30. All proceeds will benefit the Elijah Harper and Richard Twiss education funds supporting Indigenous students studying with NAIITS.
The Canadian Learning Community for Decolonization and Innovation in Theological Education is two years into its collaborative adventure, and there is still so much to do. The CLC Facilitation Team looks forward to sharing more pieces of its journey in the coming months.
“When we began dreaming and looking at these values of who we are as a NAIITS community and how we live that out in community, there was an obvious connection to symposium" — and to NAIITS' affirmation of women's leadership from ithe very beginning, NAIITS Director Shari Russell said.
The partnership will create pathways for students of the Voices School for Liberation and Transformation to continue their studies in a master’s or PhD program with NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community.
"As I learn more about Mi’kmaw language or I sit in community spaces, it informs how I read the Bible and how I live as a follower of Jesus," said Crystal, who graduated from NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community in 2020.
At the 21st NAIITS Symposium, NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community sought to honour Richard’s contributions by announcing the Richard Twiss Education Fund alongside Richard’s wife, Katherine Twiss, at Kairos University on the homeland of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate.
NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community is honoured to welcome Yu-Shan Theological College and Seminary in Taiwan as its newest partner.