`Equipped to impact a continent?' : a descriptive study of Petra College's model to equip and mobilise Christian leaders for children's ministry in Africa

• Main Author: Mans, Philippus Rudolph
• Other Authors: Hugo, Carel Johannes
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Mentorship; Partnership; Dynamic process; Culture; Holistic; Children; Practical Theology; African Church; Leadership development; Model; African philosophy; African; Equipping; Children's ministry; Relational training; Leadership; Contextual; 253.096; Christian leadership > Africa; Church work with children > Africa; Church officers > Training of; Pastoral counseling > Africa; Pastoral theology > Fieldwork > Africa
• Online Access: Mans, Philippus Rudolph (2009) `Equipped to impact a continent?' : a descriptive study of Petra College's model to equip and mobilise Christian leaders for children's ministry in Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2333>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2333

In this study a contextual training model for developing leaders in ministry to children is investigated. The training model offers a dynamic training process for the development of effective leadership for the African Church and other Christian organizations in the field of children's ministries. The aim of these children's ministries would be to see holistically developed God fearing children in Africa. This study provided an opportunity to ask deeper questions about one's assumptions on prevailing concepts about children, children ministries, leadership training, African philosophy and what is meant by contextual training models. The complexity of Africa, its people and the challenges for the future are evident from this study. It can be concluded that it is possible and necessary to train effective Christian leadership for children's ministries. To develop effective leadership in the field of children's ministries could prove to be one of the long term answers to the pressing needs of Africa and its people. The model serves the statement "equipped to impact the continent" === Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology === M.Th. (Practical Theology)