Polish School For Preachers

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At the end of June, EBC’s Principal, Pastor John Brand, will be in Warsaw, Poland, for an exciting and strategic new venture. The Polish School For Preachers is the result of the vision and burden of Polish EBC Graduate, Pastor Adam Urban. Working with Adam and other national church leaders, John will be leading a three day conference which is the beginning of a three year training programme for Polish preachers and Bible teachers.

The current plan is that this event will be the first of three such annual gatherings, and in the intervening weeks and months there will be online seminars and individual mentoring.

Poland has a population of 37.5 million but there are only about 700 evangelical churches and roughly 60,000 evangelical believers – that’s just 0.17% of the population – with about the same number of liberal Lutherans. The need for strong Bible churches led by gifted and trained preachers is immense and we are privileged to play even a small part in meeting that need.

Listen to Pastor Ben Layer of the Evangelical Church in Siedlce, Poland, where Adam Urban also serves as he explains the need for this ministry and its potential fruit for the Church in Poland.

https://youtu.be/evc6Wo_LEVo?si=1Mpw4Z5T1K73Ip_S

This first training conference takes place on Thursday – Saturday, 27th – 29th June, at Zagorna 10 Evangelical Church in Warsaw where John has had the privilege of speaking in the past and we greatly value the prayers of God’s people that this venture would be mightily blessed by him for the growth of the church in Poland. Please pray for Adam and his team in Poland as they make all the arrangements at their end and for John as he is currently busy writing the course material.

EBC’s School For Preachers

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At the heart of EBC’s vision and passion has always been the training and equipping of faithful, effective and passionate Bible preachers and teachers. EBC trained pastors and preachers are now active in ministry in USA, N Ireland, England, Scotland, Poland, Uganda and South Sudan. This summer, at the request of national church leaders, we will be beginning a training course for preachers in Poland.

In order to make this training available to as many as possible, we have reformatted and restructured our expository preaching course and from the autumn will be running it fortnightly on Tuesday evenings over zoom.

School for Preachers is a zoom based training course to equip you to be an effective preacher or teacher of Scripture.  As well as group sessions there are opportunities for one-to-one mentoring and feedback. 

If you are:

  • · interested in learning how to correctly teach or preach the Bible
  • · wondering whether you might have a gift for preaching
  • · already doing some preaching but want to be better at it
  • · just starting out as a preacher and want to develop your gift
  • · a seasoned preacher who would like a refresher course

then this course may be just for you.

You will learn

· how to analyse and divide up the biblical text

· how to construct a message that is faithful to the Bible text

· how to effectively preach and teach God’s Word

Over the year-long course we will guide you through the PRINCIPLES of expository preaching, the PROCESS of sermon construction and the PRACTICE of sermon delivery.

There will be assignments and exercises and evaluation of sermons preached.

More details are available at the designated School for Preachers website