MINISTRY TRAINING

Since Pastor Joseph Balachandran established his ministry in Usilampatti, he had 2 or 3 young committed workers staying with him and getting the needed training for full time ministry. Having realized his call to train fulltime ministers for the Lord’s service, after his move to K.Pudur, Madurai, he started training the first batch in 1993, at the church itself. The food for the trainees was prepared at his house nearby and served to the students. The trainees had their classes and stay in the church hall itself. This was started in faith and since then the Lord has been faithful in providing all the finances from the church itself. We gratefully acknowledge the constant support of Fr.Berchmans and Prayer Garden ministries for supplying the rice for all the batches from the beginning until now as an offering. The main objective of this training centre is to teach Biblical truths systematically to those who have a call for full time ministry. The students are attending classes during week days and in the weekends they are sent to other churches to assist in the ministry for practical training. At present God has enabled us to construct a building with a classroom and dormitory to accommodate 25 students with added facilities.

More than 350 ministers of God have been trained so far in 21 batches. Praise the Lord! They are ministering in Tamil Nadu and other States of India as well as in other countries as Pastors, evangelists and missionaries. Pastors like Pr.Rajan, Pr.Johnraj, Pr.John Elangovan and Pr.James Jeyakar are associated in this training ministry since the centre was started. Earlier there were only a few teachers but now God has given us a council of 20 or more teachers who are well experienced in different types of ministry to train and inspire the students. This training centre is burgeoning from the day it was started and will go on till the second coming of Jesus Christ.