Pastoral Care
Equip A Pastor
What If You Could Equip Pastors with the Needed Resources to Make Disciples?
Have you ever imagined when you go to the weekly church service, the effort it takes for the pastor to prepare that day's sermon and leading the church? The reality is: It takes time. It takes energy. And most importantly, it takes an education and tools such as Bible and materials of reference. However, the work of our pastor does not just end in preparing and leading sermons. On a day-to-day basis, pastors are teaching, counselling, evangelizing, and discipling others. Their congregation look up to them for spiritual guidance, which is a very big responsibility. Pastors not only lead congregations but are also family men and women and they have families which look up to them for care and provision.
Now let's pause a little! Take time to imagine! A local pastor who does not have even a high
school education, but has the desire to preach
the Gospel and make disciples in his or her local
community.
He or she has the calling but no access to the resources to do so. A poor pastor in a
poor community leading a poor congregation challenged by poverty, illiteracy, lack of
doctrinally sound discipleship materials, and little if ever formal pastoral training. This is true of
not only the pastors in these churches but of many who are called to be church elders, apostles,
prophets, evangelists and teachers.
This is the sad state of most pastors and other church leaders in our local rural communities.
The challenges pose a significant hindrance to spreading the gospel and establishing healthy
functional churches around the world! Ill-equipped Church leaders risk losing church members,
or giving them teachings that are doctrinally incorrect, and stifling church growth.
Our Approach
Ransom and Restore Ministries is working to address this problem by facilitating training of
pastors, evangelists, and fanning the flame of the five-fold ministries by providing them with
Bibles and discipleship and reference materials, prayer retreat facilities, as well as church
equipment. The newly trained pastors gain more confidence while training others as well as
becoming familiar with the discipleship material. The pastors then apply what they have learnt
to their own sermons and ministries.
R&RM also supports local churches in construction of churches, buying chairs, furniture and
music instruments for churches, supporting church feeding programs as well as empowering
them with skills of creating sustainable means of livelihood.
As written in Ephesians 4:11-14 “He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work
of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the
faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and
fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning
craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive`;
So does Ransom and Restore Ministries seek to see this fulfilled across the body of Christ as
the Lord guides us with a special emphasis to rural Church communities.
Pastor's Testimony
Betty Kabibi
Betty grew up at Bamba in the rural Coastal Kenya, where women are typically viewed as “property.” When women come of age, they are usually married off in exchange for livestock or other goods. Education was a rare opportunity for a young Kenyan girl. Betty was no exception. With very little education, surrounded by poverty, drought, famine and witchcraft, she met some Christians and she began praying with them. From there Betty's whole life became transformed and she made her husband and family to know the Lord. Feeling called to be a pastor, Betty established a small church which quickly grew to 30 members, but she was not fully prepared to preach the Gospel. She says that when someone raises their hand to become a Christian and accepts Christ, it does not end there. Evangelizing and training of new believers must continue, otherwise they will end up falling into sin. Thanks to R&RM, now Betty is a pastor in the local church and R&RM is equipping her ministry. Now Betty has the tools she needs to disciple her young congregation which is growing. Betty's ministry also supports young girls to avoid facing abuse and early marriages.
Betty grew up at Bamba in the rural Coastal Kenya, where women are typically viewed as “property.” When women come of age, they are usually married off in exchange for livestock or other goods. Education was a rare opportunity for a young Kenyan girl. Betty was no exception. With very little education, surrounded by poverty, drought, famine and witchcraft, she met some Christians and she began praying with them. From there Betty's whole life became transformed and she made her husband and family to know the Lord. Feeling called to be a pastor, Betty established a small church which quickly grew to 30 members, but she was not fully prepared to preach the Gospel. She says that when someone raises their hand to become a Christian and accepts Christ, it does not end there. Evangelizing and training of new believers must continue, otherwise they will end up falling into sin. Thanks to R&RM, now Betty is a pastor in the local church and R&RM is equipping her ministry. Now Betty has the tools she needs to disciple her young congregation which is growing. Betty's ministry also supports young girls to avoid facing abuse and early marriages.
How You Can Help
Join us today as the Lord our God leads you, so we can together equip local pastors and rural
Church leadership with the tools to effectively lead and nurture new believers across nations.
Matthew 28 [NIV]
[vs: 19-20] "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded
you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."