African
Bible Colleges- Kenya
We
are starting a Bible College in the Busia District of Kenya, which
is on the Kenyan and Ugandan border.
The
purpose of ABC (African Bible College) is to train and ground pastors,
church leaders and those called to be missionaries in order to give
them a firm foundation. This has been sorely lacking in most of
Africa, especially in the rural areas. The evangelist has come,
but the teacher has not. We want to train up nationals to do the
work of the ministry. We are a jump starter.
We
are working on a revolutionary new school that will meet the needs
of the locals, and not the missionaries!
What
is it you ask? Great question. We are looking at doing a combination
live/video school. We have found an existing video
school that we believe would work great in tandem with live
teaching.
Why
videos? The International School of Ministry was created using well
known instructors such as John Bevere, T.L. Osborne, Joyce Meyers
and others that have a message and anointing that we just could
reproduce. The great thing is, that it has already been translated
into over 55 languages.
Why
not just use the videos and skip the live teaching? There is a dynamic
that comes from live teachers being able to respond to their audience.
Also, its hard to ask a video a question. We know there are certain
truths that God has placed in us that no one else can teach, just
as we are not able to teach in the same way a message from say John
Bevere.
We
are considering hooking up with local churches and doing 1 or two
2 days of classes. This would reduce the need to have a building
for classes and dormitory. We would be able to travel to several
areas a week, simultaneously teaching a few groups of students.
We are still working this out, and we also need to talk to Sebastian,
our Kenyan partner about the feasibility.
We
have designed it this way in order to allow pastors and church leaders
the ability to continue to work to provide for their family, and
to continue their pastoring or ministering in their churches.
This
Bible College is intended to train the trainers, otherwise known
as discipling. Most pastors in Kenya have no training and lack basic
Biblical knowledge. Where as their hearts are passionate, they lack
the tools to do the good work that God has designed them for.
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