ELIAS PROJECT
"Disciples
Making Disciples of all Ethnicities"
Train / Supervise / Delegate
The School for Amazon Indigenous Leaders
(ELIAS) is a project born in the heart of God and responds to the need to
provide contextualized biblical training, taking into account the situation of
the students and give them the tools needed to develop discipleship programs in
their home communities and to teach the Word of God in a clear, simple and
healthy way.
The
ELIAS Project will teach a curriculum designed for use in an indigenous
context. The curriculum emphasizes the usefulness of the training in the development
of the church. It also visualizes the natives as suitable workers to do the
work of evangelism in their own communities and to mobilize their church to the
spread of the Gospel. Once one empowers leaders, one can reach more people and
more communities in less time.
The three major areas of work in ELIAS are: To
Train, To Supervise and To Delegate. These will be developed as follows:
1.
The establishment of the Bible
Training School aimed at pastors and leaders of indigenous communities. ELIAS "Amazonas
School Leaders."
2.
The follow up of the
leaders who are preparing in the Bible Training Center, wiht constants visits
to them in their communities.
3.
The production of
evangelism and discipleship material to be distributed and used in communities.
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Map of the Amazon state. Work in the area outlined in red |
4. The conduction of training
workshops to churches where the students serve.
5. The promotion of language development programs in indigenous
communities.
The training area will be developed in workshops to be held in San
Fernando de Atabapo, Amazon. The conferences will be conducted regularly, on a
schedule to be established after taking into account the availability of
candidates. The supervision will consist of a monitoring periodic visits to the
communities to observe the work the pastors who are trained in ELIAS do and
provide them timely advice.
In addition to these two areas of work, is expected to be a mobilization
channel for the use of the mother tongue through the production of printed and
audiovisual material in local languages as well as giving basic tools so that
they can later develop similar projects.
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Missionary Leover Sirit |