CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN PASTOR TO HELP in planting churches in Sudan.
Our overarching goal is to plant as many healthy, reproducing churches in Sudan as God directs and allows. Jesus told us, right before He ascended, to go and make disciples. We believe that the local church is what God established to nurture that discipleship process through the worship of Him, the equipping of the saints, and the sending of missionaries. Sudan is worn-torn, ravaged and devastated. …. But we serve the creator, redeemer God. Where disaster strikes, opportunity beckons. To address this issue of leaders, we’ve begun a Bible school to train up the next generation of pastors, missionaries, and church leaders. We also take North Americans on short-term, church-planting mission trips throughout the year. Can God plant a church in a week? Come find out.
It is regrettable in the extreme that the Church of the Brethren missions leadership at the time (2006-2008) failed to support the planting of Churches of the Brethren in Sudan. My perception is that we make planting churches, whether here in America or overseas, seem much more difficult than it is. It seems to me that we need a plethora of churches started, and however many Christian denominations want to do so, have at it. I am not ashamed of the Church of the Brethren and its beliefs, and I believe it ought to be extended into as many places as possible.
Had the Apostle Paul been operating on the advice of denominational personnel today, he would have never engaged in the missions/church planting program he followed.
“Going to Ephesus, eh? Well, the first thing you need to do is get with the Artemis people and see if we can partner with them, and see the areas in which we can agree can be determined, and work from there. You also need to get the silversmiths on board, and maybe use them for helping to decorate the church buildings…. Don’t bother with Phillippi, there aren’t enough people there to support the work…and make sure you get to Athens as the church would benefit from the intellectual firepower that the people there would provide…”