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Testimonies
GRANT CATEGORIES
Christian Writer Training
14%
Church Planter
Training
31%
31%
Pastor Training
24%
Ministry Training
I am happy to be one of those who have been enlightened.
I have done counseling at a certificate level, but the
approach used in this training has been very effective for
me, especially in the skill of active listening, which I have
never mastered. Whenever my counselees go into long
stories during my counseling sessions, I cut them short
and try to bring a solution. Now I have learned how to
listen and guide the counselees to formulate a solution
for themselves. Right now, I see what I did wrong, and I
know how I can engage them better using the counseling
skills I learned. This is going to help me and others
around me.
TLAfrica, Inc., East Africa
44 Language Groups ////////////
8 training conferences funded
4 grants focused on training
Christians for evangelistic outreach
4 grants focused on training
Muslim-background believers
5 grants focused on training leaders
for church planting and disciplemaking movements
2 grants focused on teaching
farming methods to pastors in Asia as
a means of self-support
3 grants focused on Christian media
training in Africa and the Caribbean
Amharic
Anufo
Arabic
Bangla (Bengali)
Bimoba
Birifor
Chakali
Chichewa
Czech
Dagaare
Dagbani
Dari
English
Farsi
French
Fulfulde
German
Gonja
Hindi
Indian Sign
Language
Japanese
Konkomba
Korean
Lao
Lugandan
Malagasy
Mampruli
Marathi
Odia
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese
Punjab
Russian
Sisaala
Slovakian
Spanish
Swahili
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Turkish
Uzbek
Wali
Going through the pastors training by Resource Global
last year had my values poked where faith and work
was concerned. It especially hit home when we got
to interview congregants as part of the program to
learn about their work. I got a different perspective
that Sunday is not the only time we worship God. It also
opened my eyes to the reality that for those people who
may be struggling with that time (a Sunday service),
it’s not that they don’t want to come to church but that
there may be other factors at play. We have taken the
conventional way of doing church to be the only sacred
way of doing church, which has led to making some
people feel guilty because they can’t make time because
of life and work responsibilities left, right, and center.
Yet I now realize we don’t have to wait for them to come
to us, we can go to the spaces they are in and minister
to them and empower them to minister to others who
are in that space. For me, that was major!
Resource Global, Nairobi
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