Nepal needs Christian leaders

Fragile churches and needy communities are desperate for skilled, Christ-centred, leadership. Please help.

Nepal: Christian leaders being trained to serve a needy church
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In Nepal, faith in Christ was all but outlawed for generations. But the church has grown in 40 years from 30,000 believers to over 700,000.

Many of these new believers are in rural areas, where education is minimal. And they are crying out for those who are equipped to lead them on as followers of Jesus.

Our Timothy Fund partner Manoj Pradhananga heads up the leadership training department of the National Churches Fellowship of Nepal.

Manoj’s role is to make sure those who lead these growing churches – or will lead them one day – become the most effective of leaders. He does so mainly through practical workshops that minister to their personal lives and also cover issues like preaching, leadership, team work, mentoring, Bible application and much more.

Manoj would gladly tell you of the 70 pastors and church leaders who attended one such seminar – with some walking for two days to get there.

He’d tell you of the challenging circumstances these leaders face in a remote hill region where

Hinduism, the dominant religion, is mixed with a great deal of superstition and the caste system is still practised
Cases of HIV/AIDS infection are high and alcoholism is a serious problem

Manoj would also share how these leaders had arrived hungry for the word of God and for fellowship. And all left having re-committed their lives to Christ-like leadership.

These are leaders like Hari Sapkota, from the Nepali city of Pokhara, who was only five when he and his mother were driven from their home by his father. But as an adult he heard about Jesus.

Now Hari serves his growing church in the metropolitan city of Pokhara, ministering in a house fellowship, youth fellowship, Bible study and daughter churches.

Hari is just one of the students whose life and leadership is being shaped as the result of Manoj’s work. And the kind of person your gift will ultimately impact.

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