Training Leaders for Healthy Churches
Right now, of the 2.2 million evangelical churches worldwide (particularly in the Global South: South America, Sub-Saharran Africa and Southern Asia), 80-85% have pastors with insufficient training. Without proper training and discipleship for pastors, missionaries, and church planters, Christianity remains only a surface level religion, often syncretized with the real worldview of the adherent. Even worse, churches are left unprotected and unfed. We aim to train men who will as a result be able to fulfill Titus 1:9.
“Holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.”
Healthy Churches Multiply
We believe that biblically that God’s plan A for reaching the world is the local church. Training leaders who will establish and plant healthy churches leads to multiplication of the gospel through these churches in their own context and beyond to other near cultures who are often unreached. Our goal is to follow the model of Jesus and Paul in equipping leaders for the purpose of propagating the gospel into unreached peoples. As an example, when Paul sought to reach Asia, he poured his life into disciples at the school of Tyrannus for 2 years with the result that all of Asia heard the word of the Lord (Acts 19:8-10). In the Global South, the greatest need is to equip local, indigenous leaders who will establish and plant local churches who will carry the gospel to their own people and beyond. Click here to see our training modules!
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“Over 6,000 ethnic people groups remain unreached and unengaged with the gospel. If we continue training indigenous leaders, we believe we will see the biblical result of gospel multiplication.”