Uganda (MNN)–Uganda’s poverty makes ministry challenging. That’s why World Gospel Mission’s Jonathon Mayo says their pastoral training program is highly effective.
Since 2000, Mayo says the pastors they’ve trained have planted 120 churches. He attributes the effectiveness to their unique approach.
WGM incorporates training with practical ‘lab’ work. “This goes on for about two years, where they’re being taught and sent right back into the field, immediately, to implement what they’re being taught. The first three months of their training is very, very intensive in evangelism and preaching. Then after that we begin adding Biblical studies, theological studies and practical classes.”
Mayo says with the success of the program, they’re now faced with a need for more scholarships. “We’re beginning to get even requests from Congo, even from Sudan, so the need is overwhelming.”
A matter of prayer? Mayo says “We just do not have the personnel or the financial resources to keep up with it. Literally, I believe we could probably be training in 20 different locations.”
The first training center at Africa Gospel Church Kisugu in the capital city of Kampala trained eight pastors, and now more than 200 Ugandans are being trained in six training centers throughout the country.
It costs three-hundred dollars a year to train a pastor through this program. If you want to help, go to: A HREF=”http://www.wgm.org “>http://www.wgm.org.
