Ministry in India: 2008 Report
The second preaching seminar was at New Life Assembly in Chennai South India. This church has a congregation of 35,000 and is pastored by Rev. Dr. D. Mohan. At his invitation last year, he requested that we spend a week with some of his preaching pastors. We had the opportunity to work closely with 100 pastors who were required to submit one written sermon, and some had to preach in class. The response was excellent; they felt they understood how to preach more simply and clearly, and for some it was the first time they were taught how to prepare a sermon. (Some of the cell-group pastors have no theological training.) We were honored and humbled when Pastor Mohan attended one day of classes; the next day he reported that he used some of the concepts he learned at the seminar to prepare a sermon to preach the following night. The results were that he preached more clearly and the audience responded more positively.
The final preaching seminar was held at South Asia Leadership Training Development Center near Bhopal. This school is owned and operated by Indian Evangelical Team where over 7000 Indian missionaries work in non-Christian areas. The Development Center has a student body of 150 who are all training to go into full-time ministry. It was exciting to work with this group of students and to see how eager they were to learn and preach the gospel.
This report originally appeared in the Agape Teaching Ministry, December 2008 Newsletter and also the December 2008 edition of the Pneuma Informer, the email newsletter of the Pneuma Foundation, the parent organization of PneumaReview.com.
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