The five-day training workshop is being jointly conducted by Training Pastors International (TPI-USA) and Gospel Vision International, a church organisation which specialises, among other things, in training pastors.
“We are expecting 1 200 pastors who want to receive the training,” said national coordinator of TPI, Joseph William Boomenyo. “This workshop will equip pastors to effectively lead and shepherd people according to biblical foundation. We are targeting pastors from all over the country and from every church in the country, be it Seventh Day Adventist, Pentecostal or Catholic — all are welcome.”
Boomenyo said the workshop offered a great opportunity for pastors to further their skills. He said there were over two million pastors in the world and 95% of them had been evangelised and established as pastors, but without an opportunity to further their training.
“The church can only advance as far as its leaders can take it and in many cases in undeveloped countries, the church is lacking not in evangelism or in church planting, but in the training of its pastors,” said Boomenyo.
TPI and GVI trains pastors in courses such as theology, expository preaching, prayer and worship, missionary outreach, among others. “The strategy we use is to seek partnerships with individuals and churches in the United States that are interested in helping to train pastors around the world,” said Boomenyo.
“The philosophy of training involves taking US pastors on short-term mission trips and going to strategic locations around the world with the purpose of establishing ministry training centres.”
