Why are all of these people smiling so big? 

Last week 3 of our teammates (see Mark, Kay and Karin below) traveled to Ghana and Kenya to “train the trainers” in the launch of a mobile phone based Bible leadership project.

The smiling gentlemen you see here are holding their training certificates after mastering the skills needed to install specific Bible software on mobile phones and administrate Bible leadership courses for hundreds of eager students in their own countries.

 

Yesterday we showed you a video presenting a quick overview of the project – called “Pastors Training in Leadership (PTL)”

Purpose of PTL:

Pastors Training in Leadership (PTL) is a three level series of courses on a mobile phone designed to equip pastors for church planting. Created by the Nairobi International School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya, these courses provide theological training for pastors and lay church leaders.  Church growth in this area of Africa is happening at an exponential rate – and there is a drastic short s...

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Recent quote:

“This is a tool that will help me raise an army from all across the nation; an army of like-minded people who will take the gospel to the rest of the world. In our effort to mobilize the mobilizers, we now have a simple tool that gives us that platform and a launchpad to missions.” – Abel Zulu, lay church leader in Zambia

We implore you to watch this video describing one of the projects our team is involved with – representing several evangelical groups in Africa and Orlando.

Emmanuel is a pastor and seminary professor in Kenya.  He faces a difficult challenge – one which most pastors in America would love to have!  With more than 20,000 new churches in his part of the world, Emmanuel’s seminary in Kenya cannot effectively equip all the pastors needed to lead these new churches.

Brad is a lay pastor who lives in a rural environment, similar to most of the lay pastors who need this training. He lives in neighboring Tanzania, and it takes him an hour to drive from the closest paved road to h...

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As we send out college graduates to be lifelong laborers, we will hopefully have a good percentage of students heading into full-time ministry.

Which brings the perennial question from students: Should I go to seminary?

As college ministers, it’s an issue we need to be well versed in. [Another post for another time - we also need to have well thought out advice on graduate school. More and more, students are pursuing graduate school- some rightly, some as a way to delay adulthood.]

 

My 2 cents: For most students I would say–

No, you should not go to seminary (right out of college).

When I was considering my options coming out of college, I got this wise advice from my pastor-

“Get some experience in ministry for a few years and then, if you feel it would be helpful, go to seminary. If you go straight into seminary you simply will not have context for all the information you are taking in. You will not have pegs to hang things on. And I think Campus Crusade offers the best 2 years of training in mi...

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Last weekend when we received some urgent email prayer requests from our teammate Jerry, who is in Kenya launching a new project, we asked you to pray.

As you may remember, our team has been working for months on a very exciting opportunity using mobile phone technology to offer seminary courses to help train pastors in Kenya.

In sub Sahara Africa, church growth is exploding, yet there are extremely few trained pastors.  Additionally, seminaries in Africa often can not train enough students nor can the students afford to travel to the seminaries to take the Bible courses.

So, a forward thinking Nairobi seminary decided to offer distance education via cell phone. They are trying it out for one course this semester and hope to expand it in the spring.  To learn the details of how the seminary course will work, read the short explanation on our teammate Jerry’s web site.

Although there have been numerous big problems in launching this seminary project, the class started Monday.   A full slate of eager Ken...

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