Center for Church Based Training

Dr. Monroe (Monnie) Brewer
International Ministries Director

Monroe “Monnie” Brewer was reared in a Christian home in Southern California. He graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural anthropology and cultural geography from U.C.L.A. in 1971, graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot Theological Seminary in 1975, and earned a Doctor of Missiology degree from Biola University in 1989. He was licensed to the Christian ministry in February 1972 and was ordained in September 1975. For twenty years he served as Missions Pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA. From 1990-1994, Monnie served as Missions Pastor at Westminster Chapel in Bellevue, WA. From summer 1994 until December 2006, he was Global Ministries Pastor at Crystal Evangelical Free Church in Minneapolis, MN.

His missions experience includes traveling to over 130 countries, serving with his wife Joan, with SIM in northern Ethiopia (now Eritrea) in 1974, instructing at 11 Bible colleges and seminaries, serving on a number of organizational boards, and working with hundreds of missions agencies and thousands of missionaries. He was on the board of directors of ACMC from 1977-1991, is the Chairman of PX Venture since 2001, was the vice president of the National Association of Missions Pastors, adjunct professor at Trinity International University, professor of record for the Perspectives courses taught throughout Minnesota each year, and the coordinator of the Twin Cities Association of Missions Professionals from 1994 to 2007. He has a commitment to church-based training worldwide, having served on BEE International’s original board of directors in the 1980s, BILD’s international advisory board in the ‘80s and ‘90s, as well as the Center for Church Based Training’s advisory board in Dallas, TX from 1995 to 2006.

Monnie’s primary passion is aiding newly formed and “underground” churches in theological, missiological, and leadership training in countries like China, Iran, Algeria, the Turkic world, and northern India. Monnie was academic dean for the Center for Biblical Training at his own local church for eleven years and has taught more than 60 church-based training courses in local church contexts. His writing mainly centers on curriculum development and journal articles on leadership development, training, and practical missiology. He is presently the International Director of the Center for Church Based Training in Dallas, Texas, and is the president of the National Association of Missions Pastors. He and his wife, Joan, have four children that they home schooled until college, as well as three grandchildren. The Brewers live in Plymouth, MN, but are in the process of relocating to McKinney, TX, north of Dallas.