Strengthening Church Movements

Provide training for pastors involved in movements of churches planting new churches and develop coaches who can train others to help these multiplying churches go deeper in the faith.
God is doing some amazing things in the churches here! Many church networks now exist across the region, and He is continually adding to them. Traditional models for training new pastors are not enough, and the lack of adequately trained leaders is leaving new churches open to false teaching. Your gift will provide training for pastors and pastor-coaches who help these new churches go deeper in the faith while continuing to plant new churches among the region’s unreached peoples.

 

Long-term workers have developed two simple curriculums for training believers in the church networks: Foundations and Confessions. Foundations teaches Old and New Testament survey, Scripture interpretation (hermeneutics) and preaching/teaching (homiletics). Confessions helps leaders write a statement of faith.

 

The church networks are developing Movement Strengthening Strategists, who ensure that each pastor is equipped for ministry. These leaders are now coming together in an MSS cohort, or cooperative, for further coaching, accountability and cross-pollination. The members help each other recognize their network’s weaknesses, identify any false teaching circulating in their churches and work together to combat these issues with sound biblical teaching.

 

Your partnership is vital to the spread of sound, biblical teaching across this part of South Asia. God is saving souls and multiplying churches. Join Him in this work, feeding His sheep and strengthening church networks!
God is doing some amazing things in the churches here! Many church networks now exist across the region, and He is continually adding to them. Traditional models for training new pastors are not enough, and the lack of adequately trained leaders is leaving new churches open to false teaching. Your gift will provide training for pastors and pastor-coaches who help these new churches go deeper in the faith while continuing to plant new churches among the region’s unreached peoples.

 

Long-term workers have developed two simple curriculums for training believers in the church networks: Foundations and Confessions. Foundations teaches Old and New Testament survey, Scripture interpretation (hermeneutics) and preaching/teaching (homiletics). Confessions helps leaders write a statement of faith.

 

The church networks are developing Movement Strengthening Strategists, who ensure that each pastor is equipped for ministry. These leaders are now coming together in an MSS cohort, or cooperative, for further coaching, accountability and cross-pollination. The members help each other recognize their network’s weaknesses, identify any false teaching circulating in their churches and work together to combat these issues with sound biblical teaching.

 

Your partnership is vital to the spread of sound, biblical teaching across this part of South Asia. God is saving souls and multiplying churches. Join Him in this work, feeding His sheep and strengthening church networks!
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Local MSS coaches' meeting
$300
covers 1 meeting
North India MSS meeting
$1200
covers 1 quarterly meeting
Foundations course
$1200
funds 15 to 20 participants
Confessions course
$1600
funds 15 to 20 participants
Southeast Asia
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South Asian Peoples

South Asian peoples live within a kaleidoscope of colors, a cacophony of sounds, and a buffet of flavors that ignite the senses and warm the soul. This enigmatic region is the birthplace of four world religions but is also home to the world's highest concentration of lostness.

The 1.6 billion people of South Asia are concentrated in an area less than half the size of the USA. Muslims and Hindus comprise the overwhelming religious majority. Every week 225,000 South Asians die, most without Christ. Yet there are glimmers of gospel hope. Through the work of local Christians and foreign workers God is bringing South Asians to faith in Jesus, the church is growing, and stories of Christ’s redeeming power are emerging from the field.

More than a billion South Asian eyes are searching for hope. Pray for long-term workers and their local partners who share the love of Christ daily. Ask God to use their efforts to create a movement of his Spirit across the city and throughout countries and islands of South Asia!

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