Congo Churches Need Creative Training Strategies

We talk a lot in the Learning Technologies team about how we can help to provide resources and training to under-resourced pastors and church leaders.

My recent trip to Nairobi and London to meet with ministries in Africa and the Middle East powerfully brought home the desperate need for training. Here’s one example from east Congo (DRC).

A recent survey of churches in two districts in a region of east Congo that is struggling to pick up the pieces after a debilitating civil war revealed the following statistics.  Sixty percent of the 850 churches found in these two districts had no pastor.  Church congregations are largely illiterate.  The few Bible schools cannot begin to meet the need–economic factors and low levels of literacy rule out all but a few who can relocate to these schools.

This is where MAF Learning Technologies lives and breathes.  Our minds and energies are engaged in finding creative solutions to these daunting challenges.

More next time on how we are working to tackle the problems facing the church in Congo.