Training Pastors and Evangelists in Zambia

Help Wanted: Field Hands

Jesus says, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:37-38). Many today worry about barren fields and poor harvests when it comes to faith. Jesus teaches the opposite. In His view, there is a huge harvest out there. What we have is a worker problem. 

This is the attitude of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in Zambia. They look on the horizon and see a bumper crop harvest. What they desperately need are workers to minister to all these new believers. While the CCAP has 103 congregations, 88 pastors, and 17 evangelists, it currently has churches in only 30 of the 116 districts of Zambia. The church leaders have a vision “aimed at equipping spirit-filled men and women to be church leaders for effective evangelism, mobilization, church growth and planting, and community transformation within Zambia and beyond.”

The Chasefu Theological College provides education for evangelists. In addition to preparing these servants to share the Good News, the program trains them with a skill that can sustain them financially and add to the community they serve. Scholarships are the critical missing link. These evangelists are lay men and women without the resources to pay tuition or support themselves while going through the program. To keep costs down, some courses are taught through distance learning, and lecturers offer services on a voluntary basis. 

The total cost to train an evangelist during the one and a half year course is $2,274. Your partnership with the CCAP and Chasefu will make it possible for more workers to spread the seed of the Gospel across the harvest fields of Zambia and beyond. You can be the answer to Jesus’ call for help.

Rev. Dr. Doug Hoglund
Woodside Church, Yardley, PA
Outreach Trustee