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Advancing Ministerial Training in the Philippines
“Leaders from every non-western region say their number one need is leadership training.” – David Livermore, Serving with Eyes Wide Open “Leaders from every non-western region say their number one need is leadership training.” – David Livermore, Serving with Eyes Wide Open Global Situation 178,000 people come to Jesus Christ everyday around the world. 7,000 new church leaders are needed daily to care for the growing church. 2 million pastors worldwide are untrained or undertrained. 85% of the world’s churches are led by people who have no formal training in theology or ministry. – Action Coalition, equippastors.org “Even if all training institutions operate at 120% full capacity, they can only train…
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2017 Year End Report
The task doing Christian ministry has never been as exciting and challenging as it is today. In fact, there is now a consensus among sociologists and demographers that the old notion that the world would be secularized by the dawn of the 21st century has just recently been falsified by the sudden rise of interest in religion and spirituality almost everywhere around the world. This is most particularly true in the Global South, where the Philippines sits strategically and is said to be playing a special role, particularly as it registered an unprecedented growth among evangelicals in the last three decades or so. For ELI Asia, this translates to more opportunities and…
