NON FORMAL PASTORAL TRAINING

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NON FORMAL PASTORAL TRAINING
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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.

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Pre-Missionary Training Institute

• Purpose Discipleship training
• Duration 210 hours in 30 days
• Subjects covered
• Basic Doctrine
• Bible survey
• Spiritual Growth
• Jesus Film

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Pre-Missionary Training Institute

• Outcome
• Leading for a commitment
• Memorizing verses
• Sharing their personal testimonies
• Involving in personal evangelism.

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Missionary Training Institute

• Purpose Train them as evangelists
• Duration 80 days in two years _at_ 10 days in
  every three months. Consists of 8 seminars, 32
  subjects taught in 560 hours _at_ 18 hours per
  subject
• Subjects
• Evangelism and methods of evangelism
• Stewardship
• Bible study methods
• Special ministries
• Bible Survey
• Basic Doctrines

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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.
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• Develops skills in Child evangelism and starts 5
  Sunday school centers
• Receives a diploma on completion of training.

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Onsite Training

• Outcome
• Trainees 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

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Onsite training

• Purpose To train them as church planters
• Duration 300 hours, in 16 times in two years _at_ 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

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Missionary Bible Institute

• Purpose Equips the trainee in various pastoral
  leadership skills
• Objectives equipping the trainees in
  understanding Gods revelation and in the
  effective methods of communicating Gods 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 years _at_ 10days once
  in two months. 26 courses of 7 departments in
  1,260 hours _at_ 35 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

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Missionary Bible Institute

• Outcomes
• Trainee is skilled in understanding the Bible in
  counseling, in missions and leadership
• Trainee is skilled in effective methods of Gods
  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

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

• Paulo Friere