Building a Training Network

FaithLife Ministries is Building a

Training Network!

Last November we announced that we have adopted a new strategy for disseminating our training around the world.  Our vision of seeing our Management for Church Leaders™ training (MCL) reach 100 nations globally remains our goal, but we are now focusing on raising up foreign trainers to help us teach our material rather than just us alone going abroad to do the training directly ourselves.  We believe in the principle of multiplication ministry and desire to develop a network of qualified foreign trainers who are trained and equipped to teach this training for us. While we have always encouraged those we train to teach others, building a global network of trainers and working together will enable us to reach more nations with less resources and in less time.

In order to implement this strategy we have been working on developing a better Trainer Manual to assist foreign trainers in teaching our material.  That manual is near completion and will be distributed electronically once it is done. This new Trainer Manual will have more detailed instructions, helpful illustrations, and encourage more participant engagement through planned questions and discussion.  This will improve the quality and consistency of the training. We have also created the designations of Authorized Trainer and Certified Trainer and have developed a process for each designation. This will lead to better management of the Trainer Network, provide for tracking of training, and encourage a commitment to train.  Additionally, we have shifted more funds this year to support Certified Trainers who teach our material in return for their commitment to train others for us.

In 2013, foreign trainers taught our MCL material to 2,200 pastors and church leaders in 13 nations and we praise and thank God for that!  One of our goals this year is to increase that and thus far in 2014 we are off to a good start.  In January, foreign trainers have taught our MCL training in India, Nepal and Ghana to over 200 leaders!! Furthermore, there are already plans to train several hundred more in 5 nations over the next few months.  I also anticipate that there will be additional training in other nations as well as the year progresses.  We have already begun to build this Trainer Network with those foreign trainers who are presently teaching our material to others, and pray that others will want to be a part of it as well.

I will still be traveling and training directly, but my focus now will be on training in new nations and training foreign trainers in order to certify them to train others.  I am also looking into opportunities to hold regional training conferences where foreign trainers from several nations can come to be trained.

We are excited about the future and seeing how God will guide us in this network development.  We desire to not only achieve the vision He has given us, but also to be good stewards of the resources He provides us to carry out this ministry.  We believe this strategy will accomplish that and that God has already begun to work in the hearts and minds of our foreign contacts who will become part of this Trainer Network.

If you would like to be part of our Trainer Network, please Contact Us.