member
I have some good news the church is
growing at an astounding rate in Latin
America Africa the former Soviet Union
and Asia by the year 2050 more than half
of the world's Christians will live in
Latin America and Africa there are
already between 80 and 100 million
Christians in China and in just a matter
of decades Russia will be one of the
world's largest Christian countries our
faith is growing at surprising rates
even in traditionally Muslim nations now
as wonderful as these numbers may sound
they also point to one of the greatest
challenges facing you and me today
church leaders in these regions of the
world have very little opportunity to
learn the scriptures and sound theology
we need we're trained ministers in the
Church of God we have good poor training
we don't know what do it you don't have
a clear direction we don't have a sound
in business we don't have Google still
cook route for teaching and we made it
there's a terrible need in our country
christian materials
of course we rely on the Holy Spirit and
understanding of the Bible but he also
need the information that other people
already understood that can explain it
to you Ralph winters the founding
director of the US Center for Rural
missions estimates that there are at
least two million pastors outside of
north america who have practically no
access to the kind of training they need
although most pastors throughout the
world sincerely seek to serve Christ in
His Church their lack of sound
understanding of the Bible and Christian
theology often leads them into all kinds
of serious problems but in China
basically it means so big but I don't
have this level education I don't have
ability to discern which it is by the
teaching which is all those always calls
I even saw at times people leaving
evangelical churches to go into one of
these coves like Norman has emerged
homes witnesses basically because they
were not well grounded in their own
Christians have tried a number of
strategies to solve this problem good
strategies that must be continued but
they barely begin to meet the need for
many years key leaders from around the
world have come to North American and
European seminaries but very few return
to minister in their native lands
missionaries have traveled around the
globe to educate pastors but with all
their other responsibilities they often
lack the tools and the time to fulfill
their goals establishing enough
seminaries and Bible schools to meet the
need for training pastors worldwide with
cost as much as 15 billion dollars each
year we must find a better way to teach
pastures where the church is growing so
rapidly in the 16th century the
Protestant reformers further the cause
of Christ by using the cutting edge
technology of their day they used the
movable-type printing press to saturate
all of Europe with sound Christian
teaching and in the spirit of that
Reformation we must make use of a
cutting-edge technology that is
available to us today through multimedia
satellite and internet technologies we
now have the opportunity to train
pastors throughout the world everywhere
I've gone around the world leaders of
the church have some level of access to
the power of mass media and global
communications inspired by the example
of the Protestant Reformation and the
wonderful opportunities before us today
some friends of mine and I founded third
millennium ministries third Millennials
mission is to produce a complete
multimedia seminary curriculum in
English Spanish Mandarin Chinese Russian
and Arabic in the next 15 years our
curriculum has several unusual feature
first we've aimed at the seminary level
to meet the needs of the church for
well-trained reliable leaders second our
curriculum is translated recorded
produced and distributed by national
speakers in their own languages the
third our lessons are graphic driven
every lesson is filled with artwork Maps
creative charts and graphs to our
knowledge third millennium is the only
ministry producing these kinds of
educational materials we're bringing
incredible teaching in formats that
everybody can understand it and we're
able to distribute it all over the place
we've got the internet for goodness sake
that allows us to take it everywhere and
we have things like CDs that are easy to
copy in a computer DVDs VHS it enables
the city of sugar our materials
everywhere and to allow the people to
whom we distributed to distribute it
further we've spent the last five years
creating the initial installments of our
curriculum and testing it in a number of
countries we have produced an
award-winning website and a number of
professional educational videos time and
again pastors from many denominations in
Eastern Europe Asia Africa and Latin
America have expressed gratitude
enthusiasm and frequent requests for
more of our materials we distributed
videos to a Bible College in Zambia and
we received emails back numerous ones up
and that students had watched an eight
video series or eight hours of videotape
six and eight and ten times because they
were so hungry to learn and so grateful
for it these early years of work
that with God's help third millennium
Ministries is able to create an
effective seminary curriculum for church
leaders throughout the world this goal
is mammoth but with your prayers and
financial support we can saturate the
globe with solid biblical teaching and
sound theology for generations to come
just before Jesus left his disciples and
ascended to heaven he commissioned them
to make disciples of all nations
baptizing and teaching them at third
millennium ministries we are devoted to
doing our part in fulfilling this Great
Commission would you prayerfully
consider how you might join with us in
making disciples of Christ throughout
the world
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