Africa Regional Education and Clergy Development Coordinator
T- Teacher Development
I am working to see some of our current faculty members across all our schools acquire higher education – Masters and PhD’s in their fields. It is a challenge, but it is possible.
R- Resource Development
It is good to see libraries being aided here, such as the one at NTC South Africa. This will go a long way to resource English language schools. I would like to see a fully functional, well-stocked Wesleyan Online French repository. This will hold great value as we are currently working to develop the French B.Th. with a double major emphasis. It would also be wonderful to develop a similarly strong Portuguese repository/online Library. This dream may have roots in the next two years but may take longer to materialize.
E- Economic Development Training
The global pandemic revealed that beneath the veneer of Nazarene Educational Systems in Africa, our clergy development models on all seven fields are in need of efficient systems development. “Survival mindsets” stunt future development.
Our educational systems must break these mindsets! We need to create vocational training and entrepreneurial development courses that are well accredited, well marketed and very relevant for clergy. Most of our school leaders/teachers/clergy lead from a passion to see the Church of the Nazarene thriving in Africa but upon retirement they personally have very little to live on. Social entrepreneurial development as part of the clergy lifelong learning is what I have shared with many as an idea.
If we could raise up experts and expertise to partner with us to give short courses of high impact to develop our clergy to think critically and economically, we may break “dependency thinking” for the new generations of Nazarenes.
Sadly, many Nazarene students returning from urban based universities don’t remain in our denomination. This is economic self-sabotage for us. The reasons for the exodus are varied and most have to do with how Nazarene clergy leadership is perceived.
E- Endowments
Rethinking Purpose: for Strategic Communication and for Trainings identified above.