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Training for indigenous pastors whose Spanish is their second language.
Agape Mission Projects
Conferencias Pastorales
The Garden Classroom
Agape Mission Indigenous Pastor Bible School
After many attempts to train mountain village pastors God gave us a vision that we feel will meet the need of equipping and training in a method that will take in to consideration their specific needs and cultural setting.
The average remote village pastor according to Ralph Winter, US Center for World Missions have little or no formal training. Out of the 80 pastors and leaders we work with in the Sierra of the Isthmus of Oaxaca Mexico the average public schooling is third grade reading. This means the average pastor may be able to read words of his Bible but because he also speaks Spanish only as a second language he generally doesn’t understand the words he is reading.
Our goal is to take twelve of these pastors who have churches but have leaders of other remote missions under them and train them as pastors. We do this with four day intense study on one course topic but with relevancy to their learning experiences and remote culture. Christ used illustrations that represented the people he spoke to and kept it to their level of life. That is what we hope to do.
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