Apr. 2024

Considering these critical needs of pastors, PIM has provided courses in Ambunti for a growing number of participants. This April, the largest yet, had ninety-five pastors and church workers who filled every table in the training center.  Ray Wangimbi (our PIM church department coordinator -see picture below) Rev. Melvin Dotinga, Pastor Festus Lakir, Issachar Meikwar, Alan DeYoung and Rev. Eric Schering taught on subject matter including church history and creeds, fruit of the Spirit, Christlike leadership, time use and management, a study of I John, and a Bible timeline study. Attendees received PIM published books, printed handouts, commentaries, and some even received a pair of reading glasses from PIM.
考慮到牧師的這些不可或卻的需求，PIM在安布恩提為牧師們提供了課程，這課程的參與者越來越多。今年4月是迄今為止規模最大的一次，有95名牧師和教會同工，他們坐滿了培訓中心的每一張桌子。 Ray Wangimbi（我們的PIM教會部門協調員-見下圖）梅爾文·多廷加牧師、費斯圖斯·拉基爾牧師、以薩查爾·梅克瓦爾、艾倫·德揚和艾瑞克·謝林牧師教授的主題包括教會歷史和信條、聖靈的果子、基督般的領導、時間的使用和管理、約翰一書的研究以及聖經時間線的研究。與會者受贈PIM出版的書籍、印刷的講義、評論，有些人甚至收到了PIM送出的一副老花鏡。

The following week there was a second pastors training course by PIM at Brugam Bible School fifty miles north of Ambunti. Thirty-five students currently training at the school were joined by 124 pastors and church workers from two different provinces. The four presenters who went covered much of the same teaching as the week before at Ambunti. Pastors at both locations greatly appreciated the courses, the resources, teaching they received, and being able to fellowship with other pastors.  Lastly almost of the pastors at both locations upgraded their Bibles and took advantage of getting two new Melanesian Tok Pisin Bibles for a heavily subsidized price.
接下來的一周，PIM在安布恩提以北50英里的布魯甘聖經學校舉辦了第二期牧師培訓課程。目前在聖經學校接受培訓的35名學生與來自兩個不同省份的124名牧師和教會工作人員一起參加了培訓。四位演講者涵蓋了與前一周在安布恩提相同的教學內容。這兩個地方的牧師都非常喜愛課程、資源、他們所接受的教導，以及能夠與其他牧師互相交流。 最後，幾乎這兩個地點參訓的所有牧師都獲贈新聖經，並以極優惠補貼的價格購買了兩本新的美拉尼西亞濱涇語聖經。