ABOUT US

We are a network of pastors, leaders and churches who build relationships, encourage accountability, resource churches and contend for restoration and revival. ASSOMIN started with a strong heart desire to connect with pastors and leaders helping them in all ways possible. Our convictions then and now is no leader should walk alone. Every leader needs a family that can stand with the leader in all seasons of ministry. Simply, we love you, the pastor and you the team leader. We will walk with you and we will help you build dynamic leaders & churches.

The church in Africa is growing faster than in any other part of the world today. God is very much on the move! This is good news, but presents a challenge. In Africa, it is estimated that 90% of church leaders may never have received even one day of formal training. Across the developing world 3.2 million pastors are untrained or undertrained. Good training is vitally important. It means that local church leaders are equipped with a sound knowledge of the Bible, can offer effective Christian leadership appropriate for their contexts, and serve their communities in their words and actions. The vision of the Associated Missions Network (ASSOMIN) is to empower Christian leaders and enable effective ministry that brings community transformation through the local church. Partnership is central to ASSOMIN’s approach as we work hand-in-hand with church and community leaders from a broad denominational spectrum including the Anglican, Baptist, Free Methodist, Lutheran and Pentecostal traditions.

MISSION EMPOWERING MINISTERS WHOLlSTICALLY : 3 JOHN 1:2
OBJECTIVES i. To act as a vehicle for economic empowerment of its members ii. Endeavour to enhance integrity of each member of the group iii. Link with well-wishers, and organizations of the same mind iv. Encourage merry go round v. Make available short term credit facilities from either bank or Sacco to boost members financially vi. Provide exposure and networking with other bodies vii. Establish branches nationally and internationally

WHAT WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH Our main purpose is wrapped up in our name: The Pastoral Fellowship for Practical Theology. Our goal is to gather a group of likeminded pastors together for the sake of fellowship and encouragement by means of teaching and discussing matters of pastoral theology. In other words, we want to wrestle together through the messy trench work that marks every faithful pastor’s ministry and the theological commitments which ground that work. Pastors need to know they are not alone as they try to care for difficult people, counsel deeply hurt people, struggle through preaching every week, resolve conflicts with leaders, battle personal sins, and attempt to love a wife and shepherd children through these pressures. And all pastors can afford to dig deeper theological foundations about issues that directly inform the work of pastoral ministry. Over the past eight years, who started this fellowship have been deeply encouraged by how this purpose, by God’s grace, has borne much fruit. More on that below.

UNEXPECTED FRUITS These times together have borne some unexpected fruits. I will mention two. First, although the four pastors who started this fellowship hoped for increased affections for the others through this time, we would all confess how surprisingly deep our love for the others has grown. On the off months when our fellowship does not meet, the four of us have breakfast together to minister to each other. Without exception, the Lord meets us by his Spirit in very sweet and unexpected ways each time the four of us meet. The second surprise is how far some pastors travel for our meeting and how many have connected with other pastors they had no idea were near them. As a result, they have begun meeting regularly. The way this time has multiplied other spin-off groups has been a huge encouragement to us and an unexpected joy. PASTORS NEED EACH OTHER Through our group, all of us have been reminded of something very important: pastors are discouraged and they need each other. We may pastor individual churches, but we are all called to the same under-shepherding task and we will answer to the same Chief Shepherd (1 Pet. 5:4). The more we can lock arms and spur one another on to be steadfast until the Chief Shepherd appears, the better off every pastor will be on that day