Interface Seminar yields Phenomenal Outcomes!
May 2024
Recently, 42 delegates from the Full Gospel Church Network in Johannesburg, South Africa, completed the Interface Seminar. Twenty-seven of the delegates consequently signed up for procedural training for Interface. They have also committed to a two-year transitional pathway to becoming a missional church.
Keith Koster, National Coordinator for South Africa and Global Region Coordinator for Southern Africa, testifies: ‘In November 2023 I was invited to present the Great Commission at the Johannesburg Full Gospel Leaders Year End Function. This had a profound effect on all the leaders that attended the event. Pastor Kevin Naicker, the Mission Coordinator, then met with me in January 2024 and we agreed that we would commit 2024 to the mobilization of the full Gospel Leaders/Churches, beginning with a very intentional approach of helping them to develop Missional/Great Commission churches. We have three meetings planned for the year, focusing on Biblical worldview formation, which begins with the Interface Seminar. The first Interface seminar in March resulted in a phenomenal outcome! Our goal is to assist their churches to becoming fully functioning Missional/ Great Commission churches. Our desire is that by 2025, they would have implemented a discipleship makers program into their churches, followed by a training in church planting.
At Simply Mobilizing SA, we have seen the need for collaboration and have therefore developed a pathway that is intentional in helping churches to transition from typical churches (zero focus on the Great Commission) to becoming biblical churches (Great Commission is the central focus). Already we have had numerous church networks responding to this, this recent Interface seminar is just one of those. Please keep us in prayer.’
Below are some of the testimonies from the Interface seminar participants:
‘I found the seminar very enriching; it has inspired me greatly and stirred up a great zeal in me. It impacted me in a way that makes me more passionate about the gospel of salvation and has increased my confidence in working with the Lord. With the knowledge gained grom the seminar, I am more driven now to be on mission to proclaim the Good News to all people especially in areas when the gospel is barely recognized or preached. The course was definitely effective and I’m more equipped now.’ – Hitesh Singh
‘Thank you so much for the opportunity to be at the Interface seminar. I have truly learnt a lot and was inspired greatly. To God be the glory, it has seriously made a huge difference in my life, especially the group discussion which stirred each one of us in our gifts.’ – Claudine Padayachee
‘The teaching was so deep and called us to repentance. We have forgotten about the church being a missional church, where every believer should be equipped with the power of the Holy Spirit. In this seminar we have decided to go back and engage our churches and also engage other pastors and church leaders with this message. The message that was shared in this seminar is so beautiful and Pastor Keith did an excellent job, touching all our hearts. Now we go forward equipped to equip the churches so that every believer finds their purpose and meaning as God has ordained.’ – Ptr. Kevin Naicker
