NON FORMAL PASTORAL TRAINING

Highlights  Trainees who have experienced Christ in their lives and received the call for ministry  Requires 20% of class room studies and 80% of the time is spent on the field  Facilitates the trainee to verify what is learnt in the class on the field immediately.  2,330 hours of pastoral training in 7 years. (It is 50% class room learning of an intense 3 years formal theological education).  In 7 regional languages : Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Hindi, Gujarati and Nepali  On the job ministerial training.  Trainees who have experienced Christ in their lives and received the call for ministry  Requires 20% of class room studies and 80% of the time is spent on the field  Facilitates the trainee to verify what is learnt in the class on the field immediately.  2,330 hours of pastoral training in 7 years. (It is 50% class room learning of an intense 3 years formal theological education).  In 7 regional languages : Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Hindi, Gujarati and Nepali  On the job ministerial training.

Pre-Missionary Training Institute  Purpose – Discipleship training  Duration : 210 hours in 30 days  Subjects covered: –Basic Doctrine –Bible survey –Spiritual Growth –Jesus Film

Pre-Missionary Training Institute  Outcome: –Leading for a commitment –Memorizing verses –Sharing their personal testimonies –Involving in personal evangelism.

Missionary Training Institute  Purpose : Train them as evangelists  Duration : 80 days in two 10 days in every three months. Consists of 8 seminars, 32 subjects taught in hours per subject  Subjects : –Evangelism and methods of evangelism –Stewardship –Bible study methods –Special ministries –Bible Survey –Basic Doctrines

Missionary Training Institute  Outcome: –Shares his faith, –Equipped to identify 5 receptive villages among 20 villages surveyed, –Skilled to use various methods of evangelism, –Develops an ability to defend his faith. –Develops a Bible study group, –Plants first church – mother church –Identifying and training lay leader in each targeted village –Becomes a leader and steward in Christian ministry, –Learns to use social projects such as adult literacy program, child development centers etc., –Develops skills in Child evangelism and starts 5 Sunday school centers –Receives a diploma on completion of training.

Onsite Training  Outcome : –Trainee’s ability, skills and giftedness identified and sharpened. –Trainee learns the value of working as team –Trainee is skilled to be a church planter –Trainee is oriented towards people group concept –A church emerge in every onsite training –Trainee is skilled to use the projector for screening the Jesus film –Trained to plant churches

Onsite training  Purpose : To train them as church planters  Duration: 300 hours, in 16 times in two 5 days once in 3 months.  Subjects: –Team concept – provides to work as a team, –Personal evangelism, –Family evangelism, –Evening gospel meetings, –Spiritual gifts, –Jesus film

Missionary Bible Institute  Purpose: Equips the trainee in various pastoral leadership skills  Objectives: equipping the trainees in understanding God’s revelation and in the effective methods of communicating God’s word. –To equip the trainees in principles hermeneutical –To develop skills that will disciple people into communities of believers –To train in Biblical counseling methods –To train in administering church ministries  Duration : 180 days in three 10days once in two months. 26 courses of 7 departments in 1, hours per course  Subjects : –Biblical theology, –Hermeneutics and Homiletics, –old testament and new testament – in-depth studies, –contemporary religion, –Leading and mobilizing the church, –Cultural anthropology, –Cross cultural communications

Missionary Bible Institute Outcomes:  Trainee is skilled in understanding the Bible in counseling, in missions and leadership  Trainee is skilled in effective methods of God’s word  Trainee is skilled in discipleship process and mobilizing the church in the ministry of discipleship.  Trainee is skilled to concentrate on church growth and missions  Trainee is able to give Biblical counseling to his congregation and help them to grow in the knowledge of God.  Trainee becomes a matured pastoral trainer

I learn from and with the people. If I know something it is inspite of the Universities… Paulo Friere