PASTOR TRAINING

The church has great needs for literature and training for Pastors and for Bible Study and Alpha Groups.

Anyone, even those with no understanding of Biblical truth or any form of training, can start a church as a Pastor and many such churches are not much more than a family business with tight control over the congregation with all tithes and offerings becoming the personal income of the Pastor. Often the 'Pastor' will use his congregation - already with little or no income of their own - to provide him with the money to setup his own additional income generating businesses from which he alone benefits.

We have conducted training seminars on many topics including one for eighteen rural Pastors to assist them to better care for their congregations.

A Minister from a UK church offered to conduct Pastor training for a group of rural Pastors. After some consideration his theme for the week was 'The Father Heart of God'. An essential for the Pastors as the majority of them look at their own upbringing by their fathers and see God in the same way. A father in rural Uganda is often harsh in his treatment of his children and their mother, disciplines through beatings, issues orders to his family instead of involving them and eats first and separately at meals with his wife and children eating whatever he leaves. We have witnessed many of these aspects of life.

The concepts of love, compassion, loving discipline and so on were alien aspects to the Pastors in their teaching to their congregations.

Many in the UK think that they need to go to Uganda as Evangelists to convert the people. Uganda has thousands of its own Evangelists who can speak to the people in the local language using local illustrations and referencing local customs and traditions.

Theological training and an understanding of the scriptures is needed. This requires all manner of teaching aids - and most of all those with the skills to teach them by visiting Kabubbu.

Will you help to give them training for their future?

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