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The Church of God acknowledges, as part of the Great Commission, its responsibility to provide educational opportunities for its constituency. The programs of education are predicated upon a Biblical theological foundation as set forth in the Declaration of Faith. World Missions knows that the church internationally has grown in direct proportion to its training programs. When education is neglected, evangelism ceases. Training is a cornerstone of the ministry of World Missions. Internationally, there are 107 institutions of training strategically placed throughout the world with over 23,000 students. Certain schools have been designated as the premier school for their area. These schools include: All training is based upon the infallible Word of God with an emphasis upon the Holy Spirit as Guide and Teacher. Five Reasons to Continue Support to World Leadership Training 1. Pastoral Care and Enrichment
Our schools and training programs serve pastors and church leaders who are already in ministry and who need the fellowship and enrichment of training programs. 2. Preparation of the Work Force
Financial investment in training has paid high dividends in church growth and high caliber church leadership. Almost every national educational leader or school president has been touched by one of the many quality regional colleges or national Bible institutes. 3. Perpetuation of Pentecostal Heritage, Doctrine, and Experience
Our schools emphasize prayer and revival. The teaching of Pentecostal doctrine provides stability and maturity for our troubled world. 4. Planting and Establishing New Churches
Professors and students join as fellow-workers outside the classroom to get into unevangelized villages, towns, and cities to begin new churches. Evangelism and education go hand-in-hand. 5. Penetration of Pioneer Territory and Unreached Peoples
The most significant, strategic role of our schools is in new field evangelism. Church of God World Missions students are on the leading edge of cross-cultural new field church planting in areas where people have never heard the gospel. Victories & Projections - International Learning Centers, taking training to the local level, will be established in approximately 200 locations throughout the world.
- Bethesda Bible College in South Africa has been given cooperative status for concurrent student enrollment with the University of South Africa (UNISA).
- The Romanian Pentecostal Theological Seminary has a spacious, new four-story complex in Bucharest, Romania.
- The South American Seminary (SEMISUD) in Quito, Ecuador, has a master's degree program, a chaplaincy preparatory track, and a Spanish language and culture orientation program for non-Spanish speaking missionary candidates.
- The Eurasian Theological Seminary, a regional Bible college for Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union, occupies new facilities in Moscow.
- Australia has a multi-purpose training center.
- Mexico recently dedicated a School of Music offering a bachelor's degree in church music.
Did you know that Church of God students... - From the European Theological Seminary planted new churches in an eastern European country that is heavily atheistic?
- From the Missions Training Center (Sao Paulo, Brazil) have evangelized unreached people groups in fishing communities along Brazilian coasts where no church was present?
- From FATEID, our national Bible college for Brazil, have started an innovative outreach along the rivers in the Amazon among unreached tribal groups?
- From Han Young Theological University in Seoul, Korea, have gone to unevangelized areas such as Libya, Manchuria, and Nepal?
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