Training leaders for the majority world church in the 21st century

Abstract

The church in the majority world today is in desperate need of trained, biblical leadership. Explosive church growth in the majority world has left many churches without trained pastors. For instance, in some areas of Andean Ecuador, Highland Quichua pastors are pastoring ten and twelve churches. This growth has outstripped the ability of current programs to produce sufficient numbers of trained leaders. In the Ecuadorian context, the Highland Quichua believers have twenty-five hundred churches with only five hundred pastors to serve them (Sills 2001, 171).