Pastor Tesfaye Nenko Edema, TLI's national partner in Ethiopia, helped to start this training site at the location of an old girls' school originally built by Scandinavian Lutheran missionaries. To do this he recruited the help of a local denomination which partners to both host and populate the classes. This is the second cohort in Hawassa.
At present, there are approximately 45 students at the site, most of whom are pastors, youth leaders, women's leaders, or lay elders. Graduation is planned for late 2022.
Challenges for these leaders are mostly related to their denomination's hierarchical and legalistic leanings. Prayer is needed for the training to adequately address this unhelpful teaching and the divisions which exist among the churches of this area.
DATES
March 13-24, 2019
LOCATION
Hawassa, Ethiopia
CURRICULUM
Course 1: Knowing God, Scripture and OurselvesCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Course 1 provides the foundation and orientation for the entire nine-course curriculum. It introduces (1) God’s character, focusing on his sovereignty, wisdom, and goodness, and God’s nature as one and three (triune). It introduces (2) Scripture as our diverse and unified authority, with three fundamental hermeneutical questions: one tied to Scripture’s diversity, one to its unity, and one to its authority. And it introduces (3) our own purpose and role as leaders within God’s church.
COST
$3500
