There are a number of different units in which intending workers can function for God and promote their spiritual development. These include Sunday School Unit, Children Church Unit, Prayer Team Unit, Ushering Unit, among others. Intending worker should know that he/she will undergo 8-weeks training. This training involves interactive teaching sessions of workforce training modules. Prayer and fasting are also embedded in the workforce training. The Minister in charge of the Prayer Team will also be part of it. Two prayer sessions will take the form of night vigils which all intending workers must attend.
The purpose of this curriculum is to help intending workers gain an understanding of how to serve effectively within the local church and assessed in Local Parish. Attendance is taken seriously throughout the workforce-training period. Also, participants must attend workers’ meeting every Sunday Prior to start of Service to join the prayer meeting.
Churches from time to time integrate believers into the church’s working group. Likewise, new churches need to raise Ministers among members. These Ministers-to-be require certain training that will make them equipped for the task they are going to undertake (1 Tim 3:1- 7, 2 Tim. 2:15).
The Minister in training Course is geared towards a regular training scheme where candidates who are qualified to become Ministers are trained weekly on the work of discipleship and teaching techniques for the purpose of equipping one to disciple a young convert.
The goals of the training include the following:
1) To produce a mature group of believers who will be able to teach others the good news at least sufficiently to lead them to Christ
2) To produce believers who are efficiently able to teach the scriptures and produce such disciples who will be strong as themselves
3) To prepare Ministers of the church with the knowledge of the administration of the church that will make them effectively useful in the area chosen for their services such as choristers, ushers, evangelist A Minister in training should have achieved the assurance of salvation, solutions to the struggles of his faith, able to defend his new-found faith and be prepared with eagerness to advance with Christ in his day to day living and in studying and doing the Word of God.
- Facilitator: Sabbath Akhabue
- Facilitator: Timothy Ayam
- Facilitator: Adokiye George
- Facilitator: Nitasha Naidu-Igbokwe
