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New Delhi: Pastor Rick Warren’s team is bringing
to India, in association with the Evangelical Fellowship
of India, a conference for pastors based on the best
selling book, “Purpose Driven Church.” The conference
will be held in New Delhi from July 9-11, 2009 from 9 am
to 5 pm daily at the Delhi Bible Fellowship Centre, 22
Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, New Delhi.
The conference will be held in English and in Hindi.
Participants may join the language stream of their
choice.
The Saddleback Church of USA, under the able leadership
of Pastor Rick Warren, has partnered with 24 other US
churches that have each agreed to travel to various
strategic cities of India every 6 months for the next 3
years to assist senior pastors that are interested in
learning how to implement “The Purpose Driven Church
Principles of Church health and growth” in their
churches. These senior pastors from the US have each
implemented these principles in their own churches for
more than 7 years and with adaptations and
contextualisation found the paradigm to move their
churches to new levels of growth.
During this proposed 3 year process, pastors fro the US
will have committed to cover their own expenses to come
to India every 6 months whereas the Indian pastors are
asked to cover their own expenses for these city-wide
conferences. As soon as Indian pastors have had the time
to fully implement & transition their churches to this
PD & PEACE paradigm, the preference of Saddleback Church
is that US pastors will no longer be needed as
teachers/coaches/mentors. In the US, they have found
that it takes 3-5 years typically to fully transition to
health and growth.
While undertaking this voluntarily service to the Indian
Church, the Saddleback Church has wanted to avoid the
appearance of starting their own organisation in India.
They approached EFI with this proposal and EFI, under
the able leadership of Rev. Richard Howell, has agreed
to oversee this and sanction and promote this 3-year
training process in every state of India, including the
National Capital Territory of Delhi.
A PDC conference was held in Delhi from September 22-24,
2008. Pastor Dave Holden and Pastor Mike Constantz (both
from Saddleback Church) had taught at this seminar along
with Pastor Kelly Walter from the Rock Church.
The pastors from USA are coming again in July to do a
similar conference. This will afford an opportunity a
PDC to those of us who could not attend the previous
one.
Those desirous of participating in this conference
should obtain details from the EFI office or website or
from their advertisement in this issue of Praise the
Almighty.
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