Haggai Institute's Approach

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Purpose

Advance the skills of qualified Christian leaders to more effectively

evangelize their own people and train others to do the same.

Vision

Help ensure that the Gospel is presented in the power of the Holy Spirit with cultural

relevance and sensitivity to all peoples, especially in non-evangelized nations.

Strategy

Emphasize the "how" of evangelism.

Target credible and competent business, professional and religious leaders from strategic areas, including countries closed to traditional missionary endeavors.

Select faculty, primarily from Asia, Africa and Latin America, who are experts with continuously fresh "hands-on" experience in evangelism.

Require faculty members to develop their own innovative, culturally relevant materials within the curriculum guidelines.

Employ highly interactive and catalytic teaching-learning methods.

Motivate leaders to advance the skills of others within the community of believers by transferring what they have learned. This multiplier effect produces exponential growth in the evangelization process.

Prepare leaders to develop ministry resources in their own countries using Biblical principles of stewardship.

What is the Purpose of Haggai Institute ?

Haggai Institute was founded in 1969 to equip Asian, African and Latin American Christian Leaders – who will train others – to reach their own people for Christ. That’s what we mean by “start from within and begin at the top.” Haggai Institute is international and interdenominational. Over 39,000 leaders have been through the Haggai Institute program. They are evangelizing, and training others, in more than 163 nations on six continents.

Why is this approach necessary ?

The world is changing. The traditional missionary movement began in 1792 when William Carey challenged European Christians to take the Gospel to all nations.The movement was born during a unique socio-political situation that no longer exits. Western governments were, at that stage, in nearly total control of most of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This is no longer the case.

Today millions of people live in countries that either bureaucratically discourage or openly prohibit foreign missionary efforts. Yet we still have the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to evangelize the world.

How are these leaders trained ?

Carefully selected Christian leaders from Asia, Africa and Latin Americ aare brought together – in small groups – for intensive studies in the “how” of evangelism.

These leaders participate in lectures and workshops, and then draw up their own individualized strategies for evangelism, in consultation with fellow participants and the Haggai Institute faculty.

Haggai Institute preparation focuses on two areas: 1) How to communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ; 2) How to train others to do the same.

Where does the preparation take place?

Haggai Institute operates international training programs in Singapore, within 3,000 miles of half the world’s population, and at its Mid-Pacific Center on Maui. In addition, H.I. conducts regional and national seminars in other strategic locations around the globe