Multiply the Church
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Bolster South Asian pastors' ability to provide for their families through training in micro-business.
13 Supporters
About This Project
Help national pastors and church planters maintain their ability to answer God’s call on their lives, not by accepting salaries from foreigners, but by becoming self-sustainable. Through training and assistance, this project will help local pastors to care for their families and advance God’s kingdom. Your gift to this project will help provide three rounds of twenty micro-business grants. The grants will be used under the tutelage of a master trainer leading a viable, multiplying CPM strategy. Under the trainer are several pastors/church planters. These men are not usually paid and are, therefore, rather poor. Each series of grants will fund twenty of these men to either start or expand a business, allowing them to provide for their families as they plant and pastor churches. The grants will also deter them from jumping to organizations that offer small salaries but often have shaky theology or methodologies. Partner with this project today to help South Asian pastors work in full-time ministry while providing for their families’ needs.
The Das* family lives in a remote mountain village in South Asia. The father serves faithfully as pastor but ministers across the entire mountain region.
Providing for his family is challenging because of his commitments to his congregation and frequent travels to other communities to share the gospel.
But you came alongside Pastor Das through your generosity to this ministry and helped him start a tourism business.
This business will support the Das family so he can continue in ministry and even expand his missionary efforts into new areas.
Thank you for supporting your brothers and sisters in Christ across South Asia. Many pastors and missionaries are now self-sustaining because of the micro-grants and business training you provided for them.
Please join us in prayer:
Pray for Pastor Das’s tourism business to launch quickly as he completes the required government permits and moves through the approval process.You are helping bring the gospel to some of the most unreached places on earth through your gifts and prayers for this ministry. Thank you for partnering with us to bring the gospel to South Asia.
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In the next five years, a globalization goal of all IMB workers is to mobilize 500 local believers to become global missionary partners serving on IMB teams.
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