About Us
Since 1986, The Proclamation Trust has existed to encourage ministry that seeks above all to teach the Bible as God's Word relevant for today. To this end we seek both to equip and to encourage Bible teachers.
EMA 2012: Heart Matters

The Evangelical Ministry Assembly is our flagship annual conference for those in gospel ministry. Next year's focus is on Heart Matters: preaching to ourselves as well as preaching to others.
Mervyn Eloff | Glynn Harrison
Mike Reeves | Vaughan Roberts
Paul David Tripp
Other Conferences:
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Autumn Joint Ministers
7-10 November 2011 -
Women in Ministry
23-26 January 2012 -
Spring Ministers Wives
5-8 March 2012
Here's a little more from Lloyd-Jones on finding and keeping the main message (we would say, theme) of a passage:
The thing I am concerned about is that you make certain that you really are getting the main message, the main thrust and import of this particular text or statement. It is quite astonishing to note how good men can avoid doing this...nothing is more important than we should be sure that we have got at the main thrust of the text amd let that come out....let it lead you, let it teach you. Listen to is and then question it as to its meaning, and let that be the burden of your sermon.

It was 1991 when Dick Lucas and around a dozen or so pastors sat down in a room at Tyndale House Publishers in Carol Stream (a suburb just north of Chicago). They studied 1 Corinthians 13 together. Eyes were opened. God spoke through His Word. And what was born in many of those men—including Kent Hughes and David Helm—was a life-long commitment to Biblical exposition as THE way to preach and do ministry for the glory of God. Ten years and several ‘preaching conferences’ later, the Charles Simeon Trust was founded by Kent and Dave and a few others. It was founded out of a conviction to spread God’s Word through training others in expository preaching and Bible teaching—a conviction we have always shared with the Proclamation Trust.
The Charles Simeon Trust’s function, when it was founded, was primarily to manage the growth and spread of the conferences beyond Wheaton. And in the almost 11 years since its founding, we have grown from conference per year to 20 in our present year. Most of them are focused in North America: 13 in the United States, including one for women Bible teachers, and two in Canada. Kenya and India also each host two. These conferences focus on practical instructional teaching, modeling good Biblical exposition, and working in small groups on sharpening our skills in handling God’s Word. And through the years, we have enjoyed the ongoing partnership of the Proclamation Trust by welcoming numerous dear friends to lead our conferences: Dick Lucas, David Jackman, William Taylor, and later this year we will welcome a new friend in Vaughan Roberts.
In addition to the conferences, over the last 10 years, we have also been equipping young men and women in an in-person, year-round, training scheme based in Chicago. More recently, we have brought the best of our training scheme and the best of the conferences together in an online format (available anywhere in the world that there is an Internet connection) called the Simeon Course on Biblical Exposition. Like all that we do, it is practical, hand-on training for those who want to improve in their handling of God’s Word.
For more information about the work of the Charles Simeon Trust in the United States, visit us at www.simeontrust.org.
PT Cornhill
Started in 1991, PT Cornhill exists primarily to train preachers, as well as equipping men and women to teach the Bible in other contexts, such as youth/children's work and women's ministry.
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