Welcome to Slum Leaders' Training of Trainers
Across the globe every year, hundreds of millions move into the global slums -twice dispossessed, seeking out a living as they can, setting where they are not molested, hoping for a better urban future. And among them, the Lord has been raising up faithful servants - shepherds, evangelists, diaconal workers caring for physical needs.
But who trains these pastors? The churches remain ill-equipped to face the immense issues in which they are born. That is where a global connection for training mediated through local facilitators supplemented by a training structure delivered via cell phones becomes a necessity.
The plan is to gather a cluster of existing trainers, and spend five sessions working together, on the following:
Discussions
Week 1: Introductions, current experience
* Describe the background, breadth of ministry, style of leadership, vision* Four steps to a discipleship training movement in the developing world (PowerPoint, John Edmiston)