Training for Remote Pastors and Leaders: Joel Goes to Spain

Monday, September 21, 2009

Joel Goes to Spain

The ministry is a work done as a team. Without a team, there is not much ministry. One member of our teams has been Joel Hernández, in charge of recording the conferences. He makes us sound good. This month we say good-bye to our brother and his family as they depart for Spain to serve as missionaries to the Islamic world.

We are very proud of our brother in the Lord and we commit ourselves to supporting him and his wife and their three children in prayer. They are a testimony to others of what the Lord can do. May God bless them in every way!

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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.