Great Truths
Vision
A global church whose people know the Bible well and whose pastors teach it accurately.
Great Truths
Mission
To equip evangelical leaders in the majority world, and the believers they serve, with high-quality Biblical teaching through free easy-access media, ongoing training programmes, local learning communities and online classes.
Great Truths
Goal
To build a growing range of first-class Bible resources and training programmes for lifelong learning, prioritising communities with the least access to excellent theological formation.
Bridging the Gap
But good material is expensive. If you’re a typical pastor in sub-Saharan Africa your monthly income may be 100-200 pounds. That makes access to books and training practically impossible.
There are at least 10 million pastors in the developing world – about 1 million in Nigeria alone.
Those pastors serve hundreds of millions of Bible-believing Christians.
And the vast majority aren’t theologically trained and can’t afford access to the Biblical knowledge and teaching content western pastors take for granted.
To repeat, 75% of majority world pastors and ministry leaders have no formal training and this is combined with a financial barrier.
By 2060 the world’s total Christian population is expected to grow to approximately 3.05 billion, with 9 out of 10 countries having the largest Christian populations outside of Europe and North America, and 6 out of 10 being in Africa – in size order of Christian population, Nigeria (175m), D R Congo (160m), Tanzania (117m), Uganda (96m), Kenya (92m), and Ethiopia (88m).1
Numerically, this is where the action is, and it’s the size of the opportunity / scale of the challenge Great Truths is addressing.
Jesus said ‘all.’ Well, in Africa we have the world’s highest birth-rate (in the short term roughly 20% of the world’s population) plus its fastest-growing Christian population. Yet most African church leaders have very limited access and exposure to high quality Biblical teaching and learning materials. For the current generation, it will take too long to equip pastors through conventional learning design – there simply aren’t enough good colleges, teachers, missionaries, or (affordable) training resources. We need to bridge the gap, and Great Truths is focussed on doing that.