A shortage, not a surplus
In much of the world, the demand for trained leaders far outpaces the seminaries able to prepare them. The gap is widening, not closing.
The Sustainer Circle
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Translating a course takes months; a new series takes longer. A recurring monthly gift gives our translators and producers something they can build on — and keeps every lesson free.
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The need
Most of the world's pastors were never trained to teach.
The church is growing fastest in the places with the fewest seminaries. Where sound teaching is scarce, error quietly fills the gap — and the people in the pews are the ones who pay for it.
Where teaching is thin, error grows
Without access to careful, historic theology, sincere leaders often pass on what they themselves were never taught correctly.
Cost is the barrier
For most pastors abroad, traditional seminary is simply out of reach — by distance, by language, and above all by price.
Why monthly giving changes what we can do.
A one-time gift is a generous moment. A monthly gift is a foundation we can build on — and curriculum is built on long timelines.
We can plan, not just react
Recurring support lets us commit to multi-year translation and production schedules instead of starting and stopping with the giving cycle.
Every dollar goes further
Dependable income means less spent chasing the next gift and more spent on the curriculum itself — translation, filming, and free distribution.
The library stays free, forever
Your monthly gift protects the promise at the heart of everything: seminary-level training, free of charge, for anyone who needs it.
Your monthly impact
See what a steady gift sets in motion.
Choose a monthly level to see the kind of work your consistency makes possible across a full year.
BUILDER
At $50 a month, your gift moves from maintaining the library to expanding it — into new languages and new lessons.
Keep it free
Keeps the library free worldwide and widens access for under-resourced churches and Bible colleges.
Translate it
Funds ongoing translation so more pastors can learn careful theology in their own heart language.
Produce it
Backs continuous production of new lessons, study guides, and assessments across the curriculum.
Over a year, support like yours is what lets translators commit to long projects without stopping and starting.
Impact described in general terms. Every gift is pooled and directed where the need is greatest, so we can keep the whole curriculum free worldwide.
From the field
This is a tool the Nigerian church has been waiting for… We are grateful for your willingness to give them to us free of charge.
Gideon Umukoro
Director, Servant Leadership Institute · Nigeria
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Every Christian deserves a well-trained pastor.
Your monthly gift is what carries that promise to the next church, in the next language, on the next continent. Join the Sustainer Circle today.
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