Global Minister's Network
For the
church of Jesus Christ to experience an effective global outreach
there must be a commitment on the part of the ministers of the gospel
to an effective ministerial network. Our mission is to bridge the gap
between ministers of different denominations, highlighting our common
purpose of world outreach, as stipulated in Mk 16:15.
Having
been in ministry for well over twenty years, I have seen the majority
of ministers with dreams and visions of broadening their scope of
ministry get disappointed. Their disappointment is as a result of a
lack of avenues through which their dreams and visions can become a
reality. They have found themselves slipping further and deeper into
isolation. Their desire to work together and partner with other
ministers seems misunderstood. They are often ignored because they
don’t have a “large-enough” congregation, or belong to a certain
denomination or group. Our goal is to change all that, and to help
preachers get connected with each other and to be an open door for
other preachers to reach across their geographical borders for the
purpose of ministry.
Our
mission is to build a ministerial bridge between preachers all over
the world, thereby enhancing ministerial partnership, with a common
goal of effective global evangelization. The underlining intention is
to connect ministers from all over the world for the purpose of
ministry.
These
connections will manifest in 3 areas:
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Local partnerships
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Continental partnerships
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Inter-continental partnership
Local partnerships:
This is a partnership between two or more ministers living within the
same village, city, state/ province or country.
Continental partnerships:
This is a partnership of two or more ministers living in two different
countries on the same continent
Inter-continental partnerships:
This is a partnership of two or more ministers living on two separate
continents.
The purpose of these connections is to meet two areas of need in the
life of a pastor.
These
areas are:
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Personal relationship
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Inter-ministerial partnership
Personal relationship:
The goal of this relationship is to know each other on a personal
level, and to share information that will help the other person grow
personally, and be encouraged.
Inter-ministerial partnership:
The goal of this relationship is to make your pulpit available to a
fellow minister that you’ve established a personal relationship with.
The invitation to preach in your pulpit would be based on how
comfortable you feel in your spirit.
We want
to create an awareness of the need for corporate ministerial effort in
world evangelization. There is a lot of unhealthy, negative
competition between churches and it creates huge distances and further
isolation among preachers. The devil understands the power of unity,
and how much we can accomplish if we work together, therefore, he’ll
do everything to pre-occupy us with individualistic mind-sets, and
prevent us from fulfilling our purpose.
The
goal of this ministry is to create awareness in the hearts of
preachers that we are to compliment one another, rather than compete
with each other. The reason the church grew as recorded in the book of
Acts, was as a result of the spirit of unity. They had things in
common. “When they (the disciples) were threatened, they came
together, and prayed, and God gave them courage and boldness to
continue.”