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Forest Hill joins Burundi PLTI

David and Marilynn Chadwick, the pastors at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte joined ALARM Staff to train pastors in Burundi.

David Chadwick training Burundi Pastors attending the ALARM Pastoral Leadership Training Institute

David Chadwick training Burundi Pastors attending the ALARM Pastoral Leadership Training Institute

American Ambassador to Burundi stops by

Celestin and Deogratias speaking to Ambassador Charles Twinning, the American Ambassador to Burundi ,who stopped by the training Hall where ALARM is training pastors and was interested in learning more about ALARM’s ministry in training pastoral and community leaders in leadership and conflict resolution and tribal reconciliation in Burundi.

Charles Twinning

Pastor and Leader Training Institute Burundi Aug 2009

We are with 40 pastors (of the 70 to follow the program). For the first session who are following the PLTI into two groups in order to be able to get them acquainted with each other and the overview of the whole program. In November the 30 other pastors will have their time together for the same thing. It is very difficult to get to know and introduce 70 leaders from 27 different denominations to each other and develop a strong bond and friendship.

Celestin teaching the PLTI Burundi on Wednesday

Burundi PLTI August 2009

The 40 are doing very well. They are very eager and hungry to learn. All these pastors and leaders are busy ministering to one or more than one church and most of them have had no formal theological training. Others have only finished Primary Schools and long time ago but are faithfully ministering to communities have known wars, atrocities, tribal massacres, famine, poverty, and pagan and Muslim influence from Tanzania and Middle East.

Thank you for your prayers for us. Deogratias and I started on Monday morning.

Celestin's Africa Forum on Religion and Forgiveness presentation

Greetings from Burundi where our Pastoral Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) is in progress.

Here is the paper I presented at the Africa Forum on Religion and Forgiveness last week in Limuru, Kenya to 325 delegates from 32 African countries. One is a PowerPoint summer and the other is the full paper.

AFREG2-Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Development in Africa POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (PDF)

Celestin speaks at African Forum on Religion and Government

Celestin provided the Response to the Key Note Speech during the African Forum on Religion and Government being held in Kenya. The Forum brings together government officials and church leaders from Sub-Sahara Africa to dialog on how to partner to bring transformation and good leadership in Africa. Here is some of what he had to say: