Saturday, June 6, 2009

What Can $100 Buy?

I just got back from Atlanta. I went to a workshop at the Bible Training Centre for Pastors. BTCP has created a curriculum designed to extend a non-formal theological education to the world's untrained pastors and church leaders. My trip was to learn about the curriculum and to get approved to teach it. I've been looking for a curriculum for years and even thought about trying to build my own. Thankfully the Lord always shows us what we need right when we need it (just 2 months from our departure date.) This will be the curriculum we use train pastors in Belize!!!
 
What can $100 buy?
  1. Concert tickets -OR- Provide a Belizean pastor with a full set of BTCP manuals.
  2. Two hours with a personal trainer -OR- The skills, knowledge, and resources a Belizean pastor longs for.
  3. A shampoo, haircut and style at a high end salon -OR- Equip a Belizean pastor to effectively protect his church from false teachers and cults.
  4. Ten movie tickets -OR- Enable a Belizean pastor to develop his own sermons from scripture and stop relying on preachers on the radio.
  5. A one way flight on a cheap airline -OR- Give a Belizean pastor the skills he needs to teach through an entire book of the Bible.
  6. A really nice dinner and a movie date night -OR- Two years of biblically based training for a Belizean pastor.
  7. Two hours of training for Rover -OR- Arm a Belizean pastor with the skills he needs to study the Bible effectively.
One hundred dollars is not what it used to be. But did you know that same $100 can provide a pastor with two whole years of theological and practical ministry training? Please prayerfully consider donating here (under "giving") so that pastors can be equipped and more churches impacted by well trained, mature leaders.
 
To watch a video about BTCP click here. Give it a moment to load after you click.

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