Global Theological Seminary Partnership

Klint Ostermann • April 27, 2015

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with a seminary in Jinja, Uganda called Global Theological Seminary (GTS). As you may recall, our mission is to empower individuals and organizations in Uganda to meet their needs in culturally relevant and sustainable ways. The primary means by which we accomplish this is through discipleship, vocational training, business training, and leadership training. GTS desired to add vocational training and business training to their curriculum by adding a week to each of their quarterly four week training sessions. During this week we will equip their 55-70 students with small engine repair training, farming training, and business training. Each student is in seminary for 3 years, so they will get 12 weeks of training by the time they graduate.

As you may recall, our goal is to create a vocational training program that will begin in February of 2015 called Vocare Ministries. Vocare will be a year long training program where students are first discipled, then equipped with two vocations, and finally trained on how to run a business. The initial vocations will be small engine repair and farming so that we can piggy back on the training we are doing with GTS.

I’m very excited to be able to train these students at GTS because most of them are pastors from all over East Africa. As icing on the cake, GTS will be allowing us to use their dormitories, latrines, showers, kitchen, and classrooms for our Vocare students! This means that we can begin our training right away without the need to build our own buildings on the land we are purchasing. Eventually, we will want our own facilities, but this meets our needs at the moment.

It is so awesome to watch God work out all of these details and partnerships. God is good, all the time!

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Healings and Salvations

By Klint Ostermann • April 16, 2025

Last week, during our West Africa In-Field Mentoring in Senegal, we witnessed God’s transformative power in remarkable ways. I’m excited to share this story with you. In-Field Mentoring involves coaching mentees as they deliver sessions for community training. As mentors, we guide them beforehand, evaluate their presentations, determine if they earn credit for the session, and provide constructive feedback for improvement. Occasionally, a mentee struggles, requiring us to step in to ensure the audience receives accurate information. This happened on the second day during a session titled “Consider Your Ways, for You Are the Temple of God.” This powerful session often leads to repentance and salvation, but the mentee struggled to convey its message. I stepped in to lead the session, and as I spoke, I felt the Holy Spirit moving in the room. In Senegal, where 97% of the population is Muslim, sharing the Gospel openly can be met with resistance, and attendees have left trainings after such presentations. Yet, I felt led to share the Gospel boldly. Praise God, six men raised their hands to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior! We guided them through a prayer of repentance and connected them with a local pastor for discipleship. During the break, a Muslim woman from a closed Northwest African country approached me. She had traveled to Senegal specifically for this training and shared that the Gospel message I presented needed to reach her homeland, where such teachings are unheard. She revealed that for years, she had suffered from a debilitating nerve condition in her leg, impairing her ability to walk. She had been praying for healing for years, yet she found no relief—until the first day of our training, when God miraculously healed her! Overwhelmed, she felt something stir in her heart during the Gospel presentation but didn’t fully understand what was happening in her. She even said she wanted to become a Farming God’s Way trainer. Her country is deeply hostile to Christianity. Apostasy can carry a death sentence, though no known cases of this has occurred in recent years. Converts face severe risks, including family rejection, loss of livelihood, or exile. Extremist groups further endanger those who leave Islam. We provided her with a Bible and connected her with missionaries working in her country. Through Farming God’s Way, someone from a closed nation, who might never have heard the Gospel, encountered God’s love. Additionally, two Peace Corps workers from Hawaii and California attended the training. Afterward, they approached our team with questions about Jesus. Missionaries shared the Gospel with them and gave them Bibles. God is moving mightily through Farming God’s Way, drawing people to Him in unexpected and beautiful ways. Thank you for supporting this work that is transforming lives!