Challenges for pastoral Training in South Africa

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Challenges for pastoral Training in South Africa

• You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt
  loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty
  again? It is no longer good for anything, except
  to be thrown out and trampled by men.

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Burning Issues

• Poverty A Total of 18 099 652 (45) of
  population are living in poverty 45 not
  employed in public sector.
• Aids Between 10 30 (4.7 million out of a
  population of 40 million) HIV infected
• Educational Backlog Transformation Only 55
  pass grade 12 and only 16 with university entry
  endorsement.
• Traditional Worldview and Syncretism 70-80
  claim to be Christians but 40 still worship
  ancestral spirits.

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More about poverty
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Children and Poverty
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Pastors, Churches Poverty

• Some pastors are serving churches of which 90
  members are unemployed.
• Very few receive a stipend (salary) from church
  to live on.
• Mercy ministries in churches have not really come
  off the ground.
• 99 of pastors in AICs are tent making
  pastors.

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More about Aids

• An estimated 4,7 million South Africans - one
  in every nine - were infected with HIV by the end
  of 2000, according to a government report
  released. The estimates are contained in the
  National HIV and Syphilis Sero-Prevalence Survey
  of Women Attending Public Antenatal Clinics in
  South Africa, which is considered to be one of
  the best indications of HIV prevalence in South
  Africa. SAPA, 20 March 2001

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More about Aids

• A total of 16 607 women who visited public
  clinics for the first time during their current
  pregnancy were tested. The tests were conducted
  at 400 clinics in all nine provinces. About 24,5
  percent of the women were found to have been
  infected with HIV by the end of last year. This
  figure stood at 22,4 percent in 1999. SAPA, 20
  March 2001

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More about Aids

• The HIV infection rate in KwaZulu-Natal - still
  the province with the highest prevalence -
  increased from 1999's 32,5 to 36,2 percent in
  2000. In Mpumalanga the rate rose from 27,3 to
  29,7 percent, and in Gauteng it climbed from 23,9
  to 29,4 percent. SAPA, 20 March 2001

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More about Aids

• The South African epidemic is aggravated by
• social and family disruption as a consequence of
  previous apartheid and migrant labour
• high mobility and a good transport
  infrastructure, allowing spread of the virus
• high poverty and low education levels, resulting
  in more risk taking behaviour and commercial sex
  work
• a burdened and transforming health system

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• an overwhelmed and inadequate welfare system
• high levels of sexually transmitted diseases
  (STD's)
• the low status of women in society and
  relationships, making it difficult for them to
  protect themselves in sexual relationships
• shifting social norms which permit high numbers
  of sexual partners

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Impact of Aids

• Significant economic costs to business over time
  but the macro-economic impact is likely to be
  limited to a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
  rate reduction of about 1 per annum
• HIV/AIDS care will become a substantial part of
  health care spending
• Tuberculosis (TB) services and cure rates could
  deteriorate seriously
• Women will become more burdened by bearing the
  brunt of infections and care of the infected

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• The HIV epidemic will produce large numbers of
  AIDS orphans (by 2005 there will be nearly a
  million children under the age of 15 who will
  have lost their mothers to AIDS)
• Education will be affected through staff becoming
  infected and through increasing needs of affected
  and infected children
• Welfare will face the challenge of dealing with
  those debilitated by AIDS, the numbers of AIDS
  orphans and the increase in elderly whose adult
  children died prematurely

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Impact of Aids

• The majority of South Africans will be affected
  by this epidemic as it impacts on family members,
  friends and colleagues
• Social and political instability may increase

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IMPLICATIONS FOR PASTORAL TRAINING

• Curricula should include
• Pastors equipped to be creative entrepreneurial
  thinkers
• Theological reflection about financial support of
  pastors
• Thorrough training concerning Christian
  stewardship and responsible financial mannagement.

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THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

• Biblical right to a salary (Numbers 1820-32 1
  Cor 99-14 1 Tim 517).
• Ministry of the Word should remain the main focus
  ( 1 Cor 916-19 1 Tim 610-11)
• Special circumstances call for tentmaking
  ministry (1 Thess 28-10 Acts 18 2 Cor 117-9)

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CENTRAL FOCUS ON MINISTRY REMAINS
I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not
preach the gospel! If I preach voluntarily, I
have a reward if not voluntarily, I am simply
discharging the trust committed to me. What then
is my reward? Just this that in preaching the
gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not
make use of my rights in preaching it. Though I
am free and belong to no man, I make myself a
slave to everyone, to win as many as possible (1
Corinthians 916-19 )
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A.D. 339 and 448

• Supporting themselves by the labor of their own
  hands or filling appointments as secretaries,
  physicians, or stewards in the households of the
  nobles and princes of those lands to which they
  WENT
• They supported themselves and yet their main
  vocation was that of being ambassadors for
  Christ. According to Dr. John Stewart, who spent
  many years studying this movement, these
  Christians constituted the most missionary
  church the world has ever seen.

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More examples from history

• Roman Catholic missionaries in the Middle Ages
  Marco Polo, China
• John Calvin in Geneva (1541 1564) Train and
  send 1200 tentmaking missionaries to France.
  2000 Huguenot churches planted.
• Moravian Tentmakers
• William Carey (1761 1834) I must make shoes
  just to pay my expenses.
• Millions of refugees in Africa as a door for the
  Gospel Train them as church planting pastors as
  well as entrepeneurs before they return to their
  own countries.

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PRACTICAL ISSUES

• Create small business opportunities
• Intensive vegetable gardening
• Module on Entrepreneurship

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PRACTICAL ISSUES (2)

• Computer Training

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Creativity
Choir en Music
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GREETINGS FROM MUKHANYO
SHO SHO-LOZA (Translation)Sjoe, Sjoe, forward
with the Gospel Forward like the steam
train Puffing through the mountains From South
Africa it should all start You the receiver of
the Word Open your heart for the Holy Spirit To
puff into your body like the Steam engine from
South Africa