BROCHURE FOR GRACE BIBLE COLLEGE IS A PROJECT OF PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES OF NEPAL

VISION AND STATEMENT:

With Mt. Everest large in its landscape, Nepal is a small federal republic democratic nation (30 million) situated between two very large ones: China and India. Most of its citizens are Hindu. Christians make up ½ of 1% of the population. But God is moving. The founder and apostolic of pentecostal churches of Nepal pastor Simon Peter has led 100’s to Christ and planted more than 300 churches. According to Christianity today magazine: “Nepal is one of Asia’s most stunning church growth stories.” Nepal is situated in the center of the two largest mission fields on the earth: China and India. Nepal and the surrounding areas can best be reached by native missionaries.

The greatest need for spirit-filled pentecostal Christianity in Nepal is theological training for their pastors. The growing number of pastors have virtually no theological training. Part of this organization’s (Pentecostal Churches of Nepal) mission statement reads: “to equip and train pastors and Christians workers for ministry. To empower local and national Christian leaders to plant churches among the unreached. To preach and be a witness to the gospel of Christ and establish his kingdom in Nepal.”

This would include neighboring nations such as Tibet, China and India.

To that end, beginning in january of 2009, God is raising up grace Bible college. In our first year we are looking to provide housing, food and teaching materials for 60 pastors (or more, some of them have families), four professors and one president.

STATEMENT OF FAITH:

Course study: After two years of classroom work to earn an associates degree, there will be a year of internship under a local pastor, then a final year of classes to earn a bachelor’s degree.

First year: first semester – English grammar, Biblical backgrounds, survey of old testament, Biblical stewardship, devotional life, the prophets

First year: Second semester – english grammar, Christian ethics, evangelism (personal and church), the church: the house of God, synoptic gospels, and hermeneutics

Second year: first semester – English grammar, pastoral ministry and preaching, worship, gospel of john, acts, romans

Second year: second semester – english grammar, awakenings and revivals (Bible & church history), systematic theology, evangelism and missions, first corinthians, pastoral epistles

Third year: Internship under local pastor and others in the field

Fourth year: first semester – Eschatology, prison epistles, church planting, hebrews, general epistles, and the holy spirit: person & ministry

Fourth year: second semester – World religions (apologetics), philosophy, the pentateuch,
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BUDGET FOR GRACE BIBLE COLLEGE

Talk about getting your missionary money’s worth! It will take only $90 a month to support a student in grace Bible college. That’s a mere $3a day. We hope to house, feed and educate 60 students our first year, making a total of $5400a month; $64,800 a year.

We also need $400 a month for four professors, totaling $1600 a month; $19,200 a year.
We need a president to oversee, administrate and also teach. That will be $450 a month; $5400 a year.

This totals to a monthly budget of $7450 and an annul budget of $89400. This is a very small amount for such an impact on this strategic nation.

William cary, the father of modern missions, realized the importance of Nepal. He spent his life in India but he translated the new testament into the Nepalese language in 1821. He spent 9 years working on this project.

Nepal is important just for the Nepalese people, but it is even more important because of its international outreach. The pentecostal churches of Nepal have a burden to reach other Asians with the good news of Jesus Christ. We can help. By doing so little we can help so much.

Contact address for gbcnepal: