George Whitefield College

George Whitefield College (GWC) Capetown was founded in 1989 and is a major theological college responsible for training church leaders in South Africa and beyond. Under the direction of Principal Mark Dickson, the college is seeking to make theological training accessible to the church across Africa.

Christ Church St Ives has partnered with George Whitefield college in a number of ways including:

• Providing support for bursary students at the college as they have completed their studies.

• Supporting the teaching staff at the college by seconding Steven Rockwell as a lecturer from 2014-2020.

• We are currently continuing to contribute to funding lecturers, student bursaries and the general day to day costs of the college.

South African Context

• Population: 49 million

• Faith backgrounds: Christian 79.7%, Muslim 1.5%, Other 18.8%

Challenges

• The rate of church growth in Africa is exceeding the number of theologically trained church leaders available to disciple these churches.

• Church leadership have often had little access to formal education and theological training

• The rise of syncretism, secularism & nominalism create obstacles to growing Christian maturity

Opportunities

• GWC seeks to train and equip pastors, Bible teachers and leaders of the rapidly growing churches across Africa

GWC seeks to play a role in equipping the current and future leaders of the church in Africa to correctly handle the Word of God. A growing church needs trained leaders who can lead people to better understand God’s Word and disciple their congregations to Christian maturity.

GWC is investing in ways to strategically strengthen churches in expanding urban areas and to make more training material accessible online and by-distance so that Christians and church leaders across the African continent can continue to be equipped.

The online Explore Course consisting of 6 modules has been successfully developed and is being utilised to train pastors and church leaders in many African countries. With over 3000 students annually this has become a significant training tool in countries including Malawi, Kenya and Sudan where students are unable to travel to GWC to study.

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