Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Graduation Day


As many of you probably already know we run a church based Bible School at Gotesti as a service for not only ourselves but also the work of God here in the South.
This is a Bible School course done part time over 3 years.

Students study such subjects as Galatians and Romans, the Christian life, How to Study the Bible, How to prepare a message, Church Dynamics etc.
There are 4 one week courses in each of 3 years making 12 in total.
The advantage of it is that the students get the standard of both teachers and teaching of a full time Bible School while not having to come out of the work of God that they are in, in their villages and towns.
The course has been produced and sponsored by Entrust4 an international organisation that runs these kinds of courses throughout the world.

On the left of this picture is Harvey Newton, the Entrust4 director for Moldova.
Harvey was a pastor for many years in the USA and is a graduate of Dallas Seminary.
He has been serving in Moldova for around 15yrs.

In the centre of the picture with his graduation certificate is Pastor Ion from Valeni. His church has over 70 members and he is typical of the students that come
to the course, i.e. a pastor who is faithfully and sucessfully pastoring a church but has never had the opportunity to get any training.

Beside Harvey in this picture is Tudor, the youth leader in a church called Hirtop.

Others coming to the school are missionaries working in new villages trying to plant the village with a church.

Of the 5 that finished the course and graduated 3 are pastors and 2 youth leaders in their churhces.

We held the ceremony at Karis Pizza and finshed with a nice meal together.
The next post you will see here is about the new Bible school that has just started 22 March in which we will be sharing the teaching with Harvey and the costs of running the school.
Pastor Mark

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