{"id":568,"date":"2014-04-14T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2014\/04\/14\/pastor-training-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:40","slug":"pastor-training-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2014\/04\/14\/pastor-training-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Training in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0609-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"View of Kigali from church\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0609-reduced.jpeg\" alt=\"View of Kigali from church\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is an amazing country, beautiful and brimming with potential. My good friends Pastor Gary, Pastor Jon and I had a wonderful and productive time working with a group of 17 pastors from various regions of the country. They all gathered in the capital of Kigali for a four-day training through the book of Jonah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/s1010003-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"s1010003-reduced.jpeg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/s1010003-reduced.jpeg\" alt=\"s1010003-reduced.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Esron was our coordinator and an excellent translator. Jon and Gary did much of the training, and I coached them, since in the future they will be leading this group, freeing me up to launch trainings in new locations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0572-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"Assisting in training the Rwanda group\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0572-reduced.jpeg\" alt=\"Assisting in training the Rwanda group\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0572-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"Assisting in training the Rwanda group\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><\/a>It was a joyful celebration as these pastors grow significantly in their handling of the Scripture.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their comments were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;I learned steps. Before I was reading the bible like I was reading the newspaper, just quickly.&#8221; Theogene<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;Before, I told \u201cshort cuts,\u201d preparing message to \u201cdefend\u201d myself, so people would appreciate me. I also learned not to start on Saturday night.&#8221; Jean Nepo<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;Many pastors teach what they do not understand. You can deceive people. Thank you for helping us, giving us really important tools.&#8221; Daniel<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_3361-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"Pastors studying the Word in small groups\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_3361-reduced.jpeg\" alt=\"Pastors studying the Word in small groups\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We concluded the training by praying for and commissioning the pastors to pass this first training on to other pastors they know. Eight more workshops over the next three years to go!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_3361-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"Pastors studying the Word in small groups\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0618-reduced.jpg\" title=\"Celebration and commissioning of pastor trainers\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0618-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"Celebration and commissioning of pastor trainers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pressing on by God&#8217;s grace, Eric<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/s1010003-reduced.jpeg\" title=\"s1010003-reduced.jpeg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda is an amazing country, beautiful and brimming with potential. My good friends Pastor Gary, Pastor Jon and I had a wonderful and productive time working with a group of 17 pastors from various regions of the country. They all gathered in the capital of Kigali for a four-day training through the book of Jonah. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2014\/04\/14\/pastor-training-in-rwanda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pastor Training in Rwanda<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}