By Evance Chisiano

Zomba, February 23, Mana:  UK faith based, Equipping Pastors Worldwide has trained 45 pastors and church leaders from different churches to understand letters of Paul the Apostle to prepare them to preach the word with full understanding of the Bible.

The Bible five days training took place at Jail in Zomba and had pastors and church leaders from Lilongwe, Mangochi, Blantyre, Phalombe, Thyolo, Machinga, Balaka and Zomba with some as far as Mozambique.

Main facilitator, David Holdt said the training was meant to build the pastors capacity to understand the Bible and to preach the word so as to satisfy spiritual needs of congregants.

“We expect the pastors will be able understand the Bible so that they should preach the word according to the Bible,” he added as the trained pastors received reference books in their evangelisation.

The training organisers said they decided to host the pastors and church leaders considering that some of them had no opportunity to attend bible schools or theological colleges due to various limiting factors.

The trained pastors and church leaders received certificates after covering the following topics; Gods big story, Pauls letter to the Philippians and its outline, pastors life, reading and preaching the Bible.

Pastor, James Theka of the Malawi Assemblies of God in Migowi, Phalombe said the training was ideal to the pastors as it helped them with better understanding of the epistles of Paul, the Apostle.

“We have a better understanding of the word such that we will be able to preach according to the Bible,” Pastor Theka added

Pastor, Gift Mpaso of Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) in Balaka said this was his second time to attend EPW pastors training, after the first in September at Chinamwali also in Zomba.

“The training has really equipped me with better understand of the word. This is second time to be trained by the Equipping Pastors Worldwide and l can testify that l really benefited from the two trainings.

“The training provided us with much knowledge on a number of areas,” he said and thanked EPW for organising the pastors trainings.

He therefore appealed for more trainings, saying other pastors in many areas also need such capacity building Bible trainings to satisfy spiritual needs of congregants and communities in their respective areas.

Apart from Holdt, other facilitators were; Mike Marsland and Joster Jumbe who is also EPW Director for Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania.              

EPW training at Jali was the second, after first cohort of 85 pastors at Presbyterian Reform Church (PRC) at Chinamwali in Zomba in September 2024