A rapidly growing African church faces many problems. One of these is having enough trained pastors and leaders to keep the church strong and free from false teaching. AIM sensed this need more than 60 years ago by making the training of church leaders a top priority. Over the decades we have sent many missionaries to teach in Bible institutes, Bible colleges and seminaries in most of the countries where we work. But we have been doing more than just staffing Bible schools, we have also been providing scholarships for African pastors and women’s workers to get advanced degrees so they can teach at Bible colleges and provide strong church leadership.
Our scholarship program is called the Advanced Training Fund. Each year AIM provides more than thirty scholarships to qualified applicants.
One such person is Pastor Shadrack Mbuvi who resigned his commission in the Kenya Navy to attend Scott College where he received his B.Th. He then taught two years at Pwani Bible Institute in Mombasa before being asked to join the faculty at Scott. He is now studying for an M.A. in Theology in Nairobi.
Funding for this ministry is dependent on gifts from friends of AIM who see the value of well trained leadership for the future of the African Church.
December 2010
