Josue Akowanouis is the Pastor of the Meli Church and serves as the National Director of Youth For Christ in Benin. He is gifted in program organization, pastoral, counseling and teaching. He has made changes in the whole Youth For Christ in Benin which has turned boring clubs into challengers school clubs and a relevant youth ministry.
Mario Freitas is the Senior Pastor of Terceira Igreja Presbiteriana De Belo Horizonte in Brazil. His gifts include the ability to speak in public, planning and training and discipling leaders. His church has planted five new urban churches since he started pastoring.
Ephraim Manirakiza is a Parish Leader for the Free Methodist Church in Burundi. His vision is to strengthen discipleship in his local churches, mentor youth and church leaders in leadership, plant local churches, reach out to those who are unreached, promote church project development, peace building and reconciliation in his country.
"Coming back from the GPA seminar of June 2006, there are some changes in my life: Now, I feel like to serve the Lord and his people more courageously than before.
I feel more humble to my flock and some of them tell me about it. I also feel I have the spirit of partnership, and I trust God in all I do. I have a desire to learn and teach more. Due to all this, my church is growing faster spiritually, socially, intellectually and economically than before."
Freddie Cordero is the Senior Pastor of the Vineyard Movement in San Jose, Costa Rica. He loves to serve people in all he does for ministry. He describes himself as a people person and is gifted in service.
"Thank you once more for all the attention given to me and all the other pastors, we really appreciate it."
Elbin Castillo is the Pastor at Christian Community of Restoration church in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His areas of giftedness are in pastoring, teaching, preaching, exhorating and leadership.
"I have been preaching for 13 years, but what I learned in those courses does not compare to the instruction and methodology of Expository Preaching as it was taught at the 2006 GPA. Preaching now has turned easier for me because I get so many details for a text sometimes I have to preach a series of two or three sermons of a passage. The members of the church have noticed a difference, very often some of them tell me that my preaching now is much better. I wish to thank the Lord from the bottom of my heart for having given me the oppotunity of participating in the 2006 GPA. It is a really helpful program for pastors."
Nelson Quintero is the Discipleship Pastor at the Batan Church in Quito, Ecuador. He is gifted in teaching and preaching.
Lemma Degefa is the Associate General Secretary of the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Ethiopia. He is gifted in leading, teaching and training. Through his ministry God has influenced hundreds of people and a number of local churches to focus on evangelism and discipleship in Ethiopia.
"I coach emerging leaders so GPA gave me the techniques and resource to live up to this responsibility. I train pastors and other full time ministers across the nation and GPA has given me the challenge to focus on local church churches and also given me the skill and knowledge to effectively put my passion into practice. In other words, GPA added mind to my heart and now I can nurture my people with a balanced teaching."
Jeremy Dawson is the Pastor of Delhi Bible Fellowship Church in New Delhi, India. His giftedness is in leadership, discernment and teaching. He has been able to lead his church to a position of self sufficiency.
"Each one of you has been a blessing to me and I thank God upon every remembrance of you."
Omar Morrison is the Pastor of Hampton Green Missionary Church in St. Catherine, Jamaica. He is gifted as a leader, communicator, preacher, musician and counsellor.
Hudson Saulosi is the Pastor of Mustard Seed Church in Malawi. His gifts are healing, teaching and deliverance. He has been successful in preaching the gospel in his area. He also trains and encourages.
Hiram Harris is the Pastor of The Open Door Christian Center and teaches Law Ethics at Latina University in Panama. His gifts are in teaching and preaching. He is gifted in providing clarity in presenting God's Word in participating as a lecturer in Church conferences and as a director of a Christian University.
Daniel Calle is the Pastor of Christian Education and Communications for the Vida Nueva Church in Peru. He is gifted in preaching and ministering to those in need. God is using Daniel to train young men for His work.
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Jason Richard Tan is the Senior Executive Pastor of South Manila Alliance Church in the Philippines. In addition to his pastoral ministry he also uses his gifts in teaching and leadership in various ministries. He serves as Program Director of Great Commission Missionary Training Center, teaches Theology, New Testament Survey and Hermeneutics at All Nations College of Ministry and Mission, teaches theology at Alliance Graduate School and serves as consultant for small churches in his area.
"The GPA helped me understand more clearly my calling and my mission. It came at a time when I was so discouraged in the ministry and was thinking of resigning from my present responsibilities. It was a life changing experience for me and it certainly will also impact the people and ministries that God has entrusted to my care."
Zbigniew Wierzchowski is the Senior Pastor at the Baptist Church in Glogow, PolandHe is gifted in teaching, preaching, ministering and mentoring. He started his church in 2001 with 23 believers. Today their congregation numbers 120 people. They also started a language schools that has 260 city wide attendees.
Patomporn (Moses) Kong-Amornsaichol is the Student Dean at Chiangmai Theological Seminary, and the Pastor of Acts Chruch in Thailand. He is gifted in teaching, preaching, organization, leadership and church planting.
Emmanuel Akatukunda is the Senior Pastor of the Pentecostal Evangelical Revival Ministry (Banda Church) in Uganda. He is also associate Team Leader of Leadership Development Initiative Africa (LEADIA) His gifts are preaching, teaching, leadership. His passion is to provide African Church leaders with Biblical leadership, knowledge and skills to transform Africa to be a reflection of the Kingdom of God.
"It was a blessing for me to participate in the 2006 GPA. Meeting and connecting with the key young leaders around the world, sitting under the teachings of the godly, world-class master coaches, being served by the gracious staff and friends of RREACH, and the host families-oh how kind they were to us!. It was such a blessing that no money could ever buy. I was spiritually energized, and my passion for developing and multiplying Pastoral leaders was rekindled."
Lawrence Lama the General Secretary for the Zambia Baptist Association. His giftedness is in pastoring, preaching, teaching and leadership on a local and national level. His mission is to make the Zambia Baptist Association a vibrant association that will inspire Church planting, fellowship, and create channels for sharing concerns and skills through witness, ministry and promotion of revelant theological reflections in Baptist churches.
