We are planning to conduct six pastoral training institutes for approximately 1500 national pastors this summer in six countries in Central, East, and Southern Africa. Our 2009 West Africa Fall Institutes are underway. Most of these pastors could not receive this pastoral training were it not for American teams of pastors coming over to Africa and offering this training free of charge to them.

Would you consider helping these pastors get this training by offering to pay for their tuition, which is $30 per pastor? You could be launching a pastor’s ministry! If you would like to help sponsor pastors with a missions gift, please make a check out to Training Pastors International, and send it to 5132 Wedgewood Road, Lynchburg, VA 24503.
 

Once this summer's institutes are underway you can follow our progress on our blog.

Download our Spring/Summer 2010 newsletter here.

 

Who We Are: Training Pastors International (TPI) is an international ministry training program devoted to training national pastors throughout the world. It started in the Fall of 2000 in response to the enormous need of providing ministry training to pastors in less-developed countries of the world.

Why We Do It: There are more than two million pastors in the Two-Thirds World and most of them (95%) have been evangelized and established as pastors in churches without any opportunity for further ministry 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.

What We Teach: TPI focuses on training national pastors in Bible and theology, expository preaching, prayer and worship, evangelism and discipleship, church planting, leadership development, pastoral ministries, and missionary outreach.

How We Do It: The strategy of TPI is to seek to partner with individuals and churches in the United States that are interested in helping to train pastors around the world. The philosophy of training of TPI involves taking U.S. pastors on short-term mission trips and going to strategic locations around the world with the purpose of establishing ministry training centers for the equipping of international pastors

What We Seek to Do: The main purpose of the training program is to train as many pastors non-formally as possible in each country with the ultimate goal that every church would have a trained pastoral leader. This goal involves the following three objectives: The Gospel for every person, A Church for every people, A Trained Pastoral Leader for every church