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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.
In 2008, more than 114,400 Christian leaders were trained in programs that varied from very intensive, ongoing theological training courses to shorter seminars designed to build up and encourage Persecuted Christians.
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.
It is our passion to continue to supply the growing church around the world with the training they need to stand strong against persecution.
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