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A Leadership Strategy To Train And Equip African Pastors And Lay Leaders For Effective Ministry To Central African Refugees And Immigrants In Phoenix, Arizona, Joel Mpabwanimana
A Leadership Strategy To Train And Equip African Pastors And Lay Leaders For Effective Ministry To Central African Refugees And Immigrants In Phoenix, Arizona, Joel Mpabwanimana
Professional Dissertations DMin
Problem
Since 2010, there has been a growing number of Central African refugees and immigrants resettling in Arizona. This transition adds many other challenges to the trauma some of them have already endured. Unfortunately, there is a lack of trained pastors and lay leaders to effectively minister to them. I designed this project to develop and implement an effective strategy to train and equip pastors and lay leaders to minister to Central African refugee and immigrant communities in the Ubumwe Seventh-day Adventist Church and Glendale Seventh-day Adventist Church in Phoenix, Arizona.
Method
This project had several primary objectives: (1) to …
Desenvolvimento De Um Programa Para Capacitar Pastores Em Preparacao Pre-Matrimonial Com Andecedencia Na Associacao Paulistana De Iasd No Brasil, Jairo De Oliveira
Desenvolvimento De Um Programa Para Capacitar Pastores Em Preparacao Pre-Matrimonial Com Andecedencia Na Associacao Paulistana De Iasd No Brasil, Jairo De Oliveira
Professional Dissertations DMin
Problem
At the São Paulo Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil, a preliminary survey found that 98% of engaged couples who sought out the pre-marital preparation program offered by the church would get married shortly after the preparation course. Given this trend, there was a need for a strategy to encourage engaged couples to participate in a pre-marital preparation program well in advance. A program was then developed to train pastors in pre-marital preparation in advance in the Sao Paulo Conference whose aim was to form healthy and stable marriages.
Methodology
This study adopted a qualitative approach to …