The strategy Local Leaders International uses to help the church serve the Lord is simply this:
Choose the best theological college within a context, with strong governance and accountability. Support the college with funding and resources to enable it to achieve its goals. The college in turn becomes a leader to other neighbouring colleges, assisting them to move forward with their strategic plans. Through this process thousands of new leaders are trained each year for work in the church as pastors, evangelists and church planters.
In many parts of the world there is very fast growth of the church and what is needed most is a supply of competent leaders to ensure the church matures in line with the Word of God and in a way that is sensitive to the local context. Local Leaders chooses partner colleges that have these two concepts at the heart of their training: the Scriptures and the context.
At this time Australian Christians have a wonderful opportunity to partner with the church in the Majority World by assisting with the training of leaders. You can support the ministry with your prayers, your finances and your skills. The relationship that Local Leaders encourages allows for Christians in Australia to be blessed through the partnership with his servants in the Majority World.
By building up Bible colleges in each country several systemic problems are avoided: the brain drain to the West of the church’s best leaders is slowed; future leaders learn ministry in a context which is relevant to their actual ministry, rather than learning irrelevant concepts from another context, and; the local church is seen as belonging to the country and not an alien Western thing. This reflects the reality of the whole people of God and so honours Jesus’ lordship.
Local Leaders International contributes to each college in deep dialogue with the leaders on the ground. We do not have a cookie cutter agenda of how things should proceed. We do not start Bible colleges, own Bible colleges, nor go on their boards. Rather we come alongside the leaders and encourage them in their strategic plans so that their vision is bolstered and the church prospers at every level.
Our strategy is different from many other missions and we invite discussion and questions about how we do things and why we do them. You may like to read further about the big picture vision of our work in the article ‘The two hundred year goal of Local Leaders International’.
If you’re interested in supporting our work, we’d love to have a conversation about the ways you can get involved. Click the ‘Contact us’ button to send us an email and one of our state directors will be in touch with you.
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If you’d like to support Christian leadership development in the Majority World, you can donate towards our strategies and programs. Click the ‘Donate now’ button to find out how to give, and read more information about our current projects.
Local Leaders International directly supports over 200 Bible Colleges in the Pacific, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa. We also work in partnership with the global Overseas Council Network which assists over 100 theological colleges around the world.
Take a look at where our partners are located.
We have key strategies that are specific to each region that we work in.
The bigger picture of training leaders and how we work with our partners around the world.
Our programs have been developed with our strategy in mind. Each one of our projects seeks to equip and encourage students, faculty and staff at theological institutions in the Majority World.
From equipping colleges with technological infrastructure to providing bore wells to secure water supply, our current projects highlight ways that you can make a meaningful difference to our partner colleges.
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