Fifty-one church workers have completed a one-year pastoral training course in Guizhou Province.
The completion ceremony of the first pastoral training course was held in Guizhou Provincial Training Center on December 8, with trainees comprised of staff workers of CC&TSPMs in cities and prefectures based in Guizhou and heads of churches and meeting points throughout the province, according to CCC&TSPM.
The course included more than 20 subjects, such as Modern History of China, History of China’s Reform and Opening-up, History of Socialist Development, History of Chinese Civilization, Sinicization of Christianity, Religious Policy and Regulation, Patriotic Education, Guarding Against Heresy and Resisting Infiltration, Interpretation and Preaching, Systematic Theology, Church Management, Church Order of Protestant Churches in China, and Church History.
Church pastors, professors from the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and Sichuan Theological Seminary, experts and scholars in the province were invited to give lectures.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
