about ccbc Italy
CCBC Italy launched its first academic semester in Fall 2008. The Lord is clearly using the bible college ministry to further His work in the nation of Italy, and the staff is excited to watch the Lord at work in the lives of the students and interns.
 
CCBC Italy's vision is to provide the students a place to...
 
 
Surrender to Jesus,
Study God’s Word,
Serve the Body of Christ,
Share in fellowship with one another.
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Pastor Brian Cambra  
Director of CCBC Italy
Brian has been serving on the mission field in Europe since 1998.  He served in Romania and England as a pastor-teacher and spent several years serving at Calvary Chapel Bible College in York, England.  He, his wife Maria, and their three children came to Italy in February 2008 to the start CCBC Italy.  
Pastor Craig Quam
President of CCBC Italy & Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Montebelluna
Pastor Craig received the call to full time ministry in 1985 where he ministered among the poor in Juarez Mexico & in war torn El Salvador. From 1988 -1991 he worked in Evangelistic ministry in India, Pakistan and Nepal. In 1991 The Lord called him to Italy where he met and married his wife Silvana and they continued in evangelistic ministry until 1995. After serving for a year at CCBC in Murrieta CA, The Lord called Craig and Silvana back to Italy to plant the Calvary Chapel in Montebelluna Italy. In 2003 the Lord led them to plant a new church in the city of Feltre and in 2007 to plant another church in the city of Padova.  
Pastor Mark Nigro  
Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Treviso
Mark Nigro is a missionary and pastor sent by Calvary Chapel of Old Bridge, New Jersey, where he served for over 4 years as missions pastor. From November, 2001 to March 2005 he served as the assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel Montebelluna, in Italy.  Calvary Chapel Treviso was born as a home Bible Study in October, 2003 with a vision to plant a church and reach the city of Treviso with the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Mark is married to his wife Renata, who he met while serving as a missionary in Yugoslavia from 1993-1997 with Calvary Chapel Subotica.
Pastor Jim Stewart  
Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Padova
Jim Stewart served in various ministries at Calvary Chapel Vista, CA from 1995 until 2001 when he was called and sent to the mission field in Eastern Europe. Leaving Vista, CA with his wife Margie and daughter Marla, Jim became senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Baja, Hungary in July of 2001.  Jim turned CC Baja over to its Hungarian leadership in the summer of 2008 and is now pastoring the Calvary Chapel church plant in Padova.  Jim and Margie have 3 daughters and 1 granddaughter all living in California.
David Downs  
missionary at Calvary Chapel Montebelluna
Born and raised in Southern California, attended the two year CCBC program and moved to Italy in May of 2006 to come alongside Craig Quam at Calvary Chapel Montebelluna.  David helps with worship, computer support, youth studies and is excited to be a part of the work in Italy!
The History » Calvary Chapel Montebelluna was started in the summer of 1996 at the request of one believer who was at that time driving to another city to go to church being that there was no non-Catholic church in the city of Montebelluna. He came into contact with the Calvary Chapel bible college in Millstatt Austria and began asking them if they would pray about sending down someone to start a bible study. After much insistence a couple of guys from the bible college decided to come down to Montebelluna for the summer to “ see what the Lord would do” they began a bible study in the main park of Montebelluna and after a few weeks met a young woman who eagerly received the “ Good News” and gave her life to Christ. As the summer came to an end they had the difficult decision of staying in Italy or returning to Austria to fulfill their obligations at the bible college. Neither of them felt the Lord was leading them to make that permanent commitment to Italy but on the other hand they didn’t want to abandon these two “sheep”. So along with Frank Ippolito (who at that time was director of the bible college) the decision was made to commute every weekend down to Montebelluna and begin praying that God would send a pastor for these two “sheep”. to continue the story click herehistory%20of%20ccmontebelluna.htmlshapeimage_10_link_0
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