Open Letter to Pastors

One of the speakers at the recent Desiring God Pastors Conference in Minneapolis, Dr. Michael Oh of Christ Bible Seminary in Japan, challenged each pastor to prayerfully and seriously consider giving 5 years of their career to global missions. If a pastor’s ministry was 50 years, a tithe would be 5 years. This would greatly assist in the Great Commission and be a wonderful example to the church.

Pastors are needed worldwide in all aspects of evangelism, discipleship, and especially that of church leadership development.

There are an estimated 3.2 million untrained and undertrained pastors throughout the world; for example, in the Philippines, there are an estimated 40,000 needy pastors. These pastors need encouragement, training, mentoring, books, study Bibles, and assistance in all aspects of living for God and serving Him in dangerous, hectic, and extremely poor situations.

Please prayerfully consider serving with needy pastors in ACTION’s Pastoral Leadership Development ministry in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America for 4 to 6 years, or even for one month yearly in ministry.

If you are interested, please go to our web site: www.EquipPastors.org to learn more of ACTION and its Pastoral Leadership Development ministry and where you could serve.

Let me encourage you with the following, They went out for the sake of His name . . . therefore, we ought to help such men, that we may be fellow workers with the truth (3 John 7-8, nasb).