Posted on February 27, 2010 - by Larry

Church Planters in Kiev

I went to Kiev Ukraine this past December and met some great people. A month or so ago I wrote about how a church planting book by Ed Stetzer is used at a seminary in the Ukraine.  Today I would like  to tell you a little more about that school.  The  school  would like to find a few churches that would be interested in partnering with them in their church planting program. If you have a heart for training church planters then this may be a great place for your church.

The Church Planting Program at Kiev Theological Seminary continues
expand. The program has 31 men at the present time, the students have
planted 25 churches, and they have graduated three classes. Our students
come from Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. They  have or have had men
from Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Lithuania and Azerbaijan. Next year they will
will be getting some more students from Russia through the cooperative
efforts of an imb worker who is wanting a group of students trained as church planters.

The KTS program is intentional about planting churches. The men must
start a church or be on a team that starts a church before they
graduate from the seminary. The school does not  want them to just study church
planting and not get an opportunity to put it into practice.

Church Planting courses are taught in a modular format. Students
come for two weeks and go back to the field where they put into
practice what they are learning in class. This way the men are able to
plant the churches in their own communities and they have the training
and support of the Church Planting Program… a strategic goal for
expanding the Kingdom.

If you have an interest in this please let me know at larry@theupstreamcollective.org. I would be glad to introduce you to the director Joel Ragains or visit his site here.