Matthew 28:19
To be able to keep the church strong and growing and lay a good foundation for the multiplication of the church, we started to raise up leaders through training disciples.
We hold monthly leadership seminars and small conferences in every village monthly. And the Pastors come to our main church in town once a month; where we do evaluation, discipleship and plan together as we lay strategies to reach more villages for Christ and strengthen the existing churches.
We have also started a certificate level theology course to train our leaders in good leadership principles to help our Pastors be good and exemplary leaders.In 2005, God brought our way Pastor Doug Paradise, a missionary in Vietnam. He has a burden
for making disciples. God united our hearts together and we planned annual leaders' conferences to help strengthen and encourage the Pastors.He comes to Kabale every year and holds a leaders' conference, where we gather leaders from the rural places all around Kabale. We offer them transportation, feed them and accommodate them and teach them the word of God.
The 2007 Conference was held in November, Pastor Doug came with his long time friend and co-worker from California, Pastor George with a Prophetic gift and Evangelism. Over 200 hundred Pastors attended this conference. We had a great time in the teaching of the word, as the presence of God came down and leaders were strengthen in the Lord and went back rejoicing and vowing to serve the Lord with all their strength.From these conferences, Pastors have testified that God had encouraged them. Pastors in the villages depend on the crops they plant. In church the total offertories are less than $5 every month. Because of hard conditions, these pastors get discouraged and often feel like giving up, but through these annual conferences they have been strengthened.
One Pastor testified that after resisting the call of the Lord for a long time after last year's conference, he was encouraged and he immediately planted a church in his village with our
support.Many have grown in the Lord and are helping us to train more Pastors and planting churches.
Helping these Pastors will encourage them to serve God better. $50 monthly support would help a Pastor pay house rent feed their families and pay school fees for their children.
In case you would like to be a blessing to these Pastors, or support our Leadership training,please reach us at:
jbakashaba@gmail.com
Or Pastor Doug Paradise at: dougparadise@yahoo.com
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