CLTC is the servant of the churches of the South Pacific, training men and women for Christian ministry and leadership. Each year we train about two-hundred students by providing biblical and theological instruction. The language of instruction is English except for the Wives’ Bible and Ministry course, which is taught in Tok Pisin.

The Christian Leaders' Training College of Papua New Guinea, commonly known as CLTC, was established in 1964. The College is situated in the Wahgi Valley, 8 km west of Banz and 60 km east of Mt. Hagen, in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

CLTC first began as an extension of the work of the Melbourne Bible Institute (now Bible College of Victoria). In August 1973, the College was incorporated in Papua New Guinea under the Papua New Guinea Associations Incorporation Ordinance. At that time, the control of the College was transferred from the Council in Australia to a new Council based in Papua New Guinea. J. Oswald Sanders recorded the history of the first ten years of the life of the College in Planting Men in Melanesia.