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Through the years, Open Doors has learned that training and encouraging pastors and church leaders is the most effective way to support strong, healthy local churches, especially among those facing persecution. We help these brave leaders study and teach the Bible in a way that brings the courage of truth to their people.
The professional ministers that we are used to seeing on Sunday mornings are not typical of the kind of pastor that leads a congregation in areas where the Church faces persecution. Often the person made responsible for shepherding a group of persecuted Christians is a fairly new believer himself. The shocking reality is that less than 10 percent of Christian leaders in the Persecuted Church have received any form of theological training.
With these Christian leaders already spread thin by their vast amount of responsibility, we respond by providing training seminars and leadership institutes that are accommodating to the restrictions they face with time, travel, and finances of being pulled away from the second jobs they usually have to support their families.
To support these courageous believers who shoulder the pressures of leading a congregation with little training and facing opposition from the outside, we simply must help them in whatever way we can. As a result of our "Standing Strong Through the Storm" seminars and Biblical courses like those at our Timothy Training Institute, our goal in 2006 was to equip more than 100, 000 persecuted church leaders. You can help us surpass that number now in 2007!
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