Middle East: Training Pastors

Christians in this Islam-dominated country comprise less than 2% of the population. Pastors, Bible teachers, and evangelists labor under threat of martyrdom. We partner with an undercover, highly confidential ministry that comes along church leaders and offers them intensive training in Biblical leadership, ranging from a 3-week seminar to a 3-month education program, with no days off. Classes include Old and New Testament, Christology, ecclesiology, homiletics, hermeneutics, servant leadership, and practical ministry.

Eager to delve deeply into the Word of God, these pastors-in-training don't complain about the grinding schedule. Instead, after completing the training session, these men return to their communities, and use their newly-gained knowledge of the Scripture to nourish their house-church congregations. 

To many western church-goers, this kind of voracious appetite for Bible study, coupled with the courage to suffer and die for one's faith in Christ, is puzzling, if not unfathomable. Why do these Christian men risk their lives to study a book? We who have been transformed by the Gospel know that the Bible is the revealed Word, given so that men may have knowledge and fellowship with Jesus Christ. We are so glad for the opportunity to support our brothers, and help them as they lay a solid Scriptural foundation.  

Give now to support Training Pastors!

Your gift will help send house-church pastors in this unnamed Middle Eastern country to covert seminars, provide them with hands-on instruction, reading and mentoring. And while financial support is necessary, intercessory support is vital! Please pray for these pastors-in-training - the pressure they face in their Muslim communities is intense. Pray that through their witness and service to their little congregations, many followers of Allah will see the beauty of the Cross and come to a saving knowledge of the Messiah!