Do you have heart for mission in Indonesia?
Philadelphia Baptist Evangelical Seminary partnership with INSTEP program of Louisiana Baptist University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA start to beginning mission department to prepare, trained a young people to be national missionaries and pastors in Indonesia that is great nations with thousands it's islands. Our purpose is to serve Indonesia national missionaries by providing low cost, quality education for the training of nationals for church planting and world evangelism.
The following is mission studies of INSTEP:
Studies show that the biggest return on mission dollars in world evangelism is through educating and training nationals in their own country.
Good-Better, BEST in Missions
1 ...American missionaries educated, trained, supported and sent... (Good)
Average cost of 4 years of education and language school is $40,000-$50,000.
Average deputation time is 2 years with a cost for salary and expenses exceeding $10,000.
Average transportation and moving expense to the field is $10,000-$20,000.
The American-sent missionary is the foundation of missions.
2 ...educating and training nationals in America to go back to their own country.. (Better)
Educational costs, deputation time, expenses and salary needs are about the same as American missionaries.
Re-adapting to their own cultures is much easier and language is already known.
The national trained in America is the fruit and progress of world missions.
3 ...educating and training nationals on the field... (Best)
Education and training costs are about 10% of the real cost of the same education at a Bible college in America:
$0....Deputation Time & Cost
$0....Travel & Moving Expenses
$0....Language School
$0....No Culture Shock
Length of Stay - Usually a LifetimeThe national trained on the field is the final and most fruitful phase that reaches the entire world with the gospel.
Our program for this year 2006 is recruit twenty Christian young people from the kind of islands in Indonesia, educate, train, and send them to their selves island to be blessing for their people and church planting ministries.
Pray for them, because they come from the poor society, so they can't pay their studies. We can give scholarship for their study fees (free registration, free tuition fee, free dormitory etc.), but who can pay their cost of life in dormitory? Each of them need $ 50.00 per month for meal. Do you love Indonesia? Do you have heart for Indonesia? If yes, would you to be sponsor who support monthly one or two of them?
"And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us." (Acts 16:9)
"And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)
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