Our Vision
The Get There Pastor’s
Scholarship Fund
The Fund’s Purpose:
The purpose of The Get There Pastor’s Scholarship Fund is
to grant travel assistance for pastors from the majority world,
to attend strategic training events designed to multiply Trainers of Pastors.
These pastors can either be presenters or participants.
The Immediate Context
The GProCongress II (https://www.gprocongress.org/) is a collaboration of three streams of training designed to advance the equipping and empowering of pastors and pastoral trainers. The immediate result will be a major advance in the quality and quantity of trainers of pastors who will reproduce more pastor-trainers, stimulating a major advance of God’s Kingdom worldwide.
The Plan
Here are some features of the plan and the Congress:
1. The purpose of the Congress
The purpose of the Congress is to rapidly increase the quality and quantity of Pastor Trainers. This will impact the health of pastors and churches. Healthy pastors will result in healthy churches and impact society.
2. Globally, pastors are trained through three strategies
formal institutions / schools, non-formal training seminars and programs, and informal relational mentoring.
3. Three main strategies
One of the three main strategies for developing more pastoral trainers will be featured daily: formal, non-formal, and informal mentoring.
4. The integration of the informal mentoring component
The integration of the informal mentoring component will be highlighted and discussed as a significant element that needs greater emphasis.
5. Informal mentoring aspect
The Informal mentoring aspect refers to intentional, personal mentoring, both one-to-one and in small groups. (This is a life-long need for pastors to have in their regular schedule.)
6. The nature and power of informal mentoring
The nature and power of informal mentoring will be demonstrated and engaged in during the Congress and following by putting together mentor groups of 4-6 people (one experienced mentor with 4-6 mentees).
7. Mentor Groups
These mentor groups will meet three times during the Congress and four times virtually in the following year so people can experience mentoring relationships that are relational, intentional, and accountable.
8. Mentor Groups Languages
The groups will be gender specific and offered in four languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English
The Challenge
1- The Pastor Mentoring International Network (PMIN) was formed by MentorLink International and several other similar networks and has accepted the challenge to plan and produce the one day at the Congress in which informal mentoring is explained and emphasized.
2- In addition, PMIN, will conduct mentor training for 60 mentor groups of 4-6 people in each mentor group. This will permeate the entire Congress and rapidly spread throughout the world.
3- PMIN has accepted the challenge to recruit and train 60 mentors to facilitate groups so that a total of 300 people will be engaged and deployed. Each person will be required to complete an application which demonstrates their present involvement in pastoral training.
3- Subsequent to the Congress, PMIN will continue follow-up and hold regional and virtual Gatherings to further build a global mentoring movement among pastors to increase the quality and quantity of Christlike pastors and trainers of pastors. Travel scholarships will be needed. This is a 7-10 year vision.
The Specific Need
Dr. Stacy Rinehart, Founder of MentorLink International, has been tasked to lead the PMIN team who will recruit, screen and train the mentors before the Congress begins, encourage them during the Congress, and support them after the Congress.
The cost to attend the Congress is approximately $300-1100 USD (depending on the country or origin) for the hotel and meals for the week. The airline ticket is an additional expense.
Most of the required mentors will come from outside the western countries of North American and Europe. They do not have sufficient funds for their flights to come without our assistance. The GProCongress team will provide a significant scholarship for the hotel and food expenses for those coming from non-western countries. PMIN seeks travel scholarship funds to help them ‘Get There’.
The Immediate Goal
We are asking God to raise at least $60,000, so that mentors we recruit from the majority world who need it, can receive a travel scholarship to help them Get There.
Will you give generously to The Get There Pastor’s Scholarship Fund?
You will be investing in pastor-trainers who will multiply themselves many times over. They will have a long-term global impact in developing pastors to lead groups of believers who will advance His Kingdom as Jesus commissioned us to do.
Contact
Maureen Starr
Director of Giver Services, Georgia NCF
Main: 678.892.1922
Mobile: 678-860-9209
11625 Rainwater Drive, Suite 500
Alpharetta, GA 30009
ncfgiving.com/Georgia/
Dr. Stacy Rineheart
Facilitator, PMIN
Founder, MentorLink International
StacyRinehart@MentorLink.org
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