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Dear Friend,

As Pathway Learning prepares for 2022, we’re reaffirming 5 core commitments that can make a lasting difference in lives and communities around the world next year and beyond. May I ask you a favor? Will you please prayerfully read these 5 brief reasons as you think about your year-end giving? Thanks so much for considering this!

FIRST REASON: WHAT WE DO

We equip underserved church leaders to plant and develop healthy churches that transform lives and communities around the world. We do this by providing church leaders access to affordable, practical, seminary-level training and tools in their language and adapted to their culture wherever they live and serve.

SECOND REASON: WHOM WE SERVE

We serve church leaders who do not have access to the education they need to plant and develop healthy churches with effective ministries of evangelism, discipleship, and mercy. There are millions of gifted and called church leaders, especially in the developing world, who can’t afford to leave their families and churches to learn in a new language and culture.

THIRD REASON: HOW WE SERVE

We provide underserved church leaders access to an innovative blend of online and onsite learning in interactive cohort groups moderated by trained facilitators. Our courses use the latest educational technology and focus not only on developing the leader’s knowledge, but also on the character and practical skills they need to be effective in ministry.

FORTH REASON: WHERE WE SERVE

Pathway Learning has equipped a growing global community of church leaders from more than 300 denominations representing 60 countries in 7 languages. Our five major global projects include serving the persecuted in China, the rural poor in Muslim West Africa, the unreached in Japan, the secular in Eastern Europe, and the urban poor in North America.

FIFTH REASON: WHY WE SERVE

There is no greater honor and privilege than making a lasting difference in the world by obeying Jesus’ command to make disciples of all nations. And the most effective way to make disciples of all nations is by equipping church leaders to plant and develop healthy churches that transform lives and communities around the world.

But here’s what I must tell you: There’s no way Pathway Learning can keep these commitments without you – without your prayers and your financial support. So, I’m asking you to please help Pathway Learning with a year-end gift now so we can end this year strong and keep these commitments in 2022 and the future. Thanks so much!

Sincerely in Christ,

Steve

P.S. As you do your end-of-year giving, please prayerfully consider our ministry as one you will support and use this convenient link to help us keep these commitments. Thanks again!

Steve Childers
President & CEO
Pathway Learning


We help underserved church leaders develop churches that transform lives and communities

WAYS TO GIVE

Online
Give using your credit card or bank draft through our secure online form

Phone
Call us at 407-682-6942

Mail
Send a check:
Pathway Learning, P.O. Box 2062
Winter Park, FL 32790

Matching Gift
Your employer may also be able to double your gift.

Give a Gift of Stock
You may give securities either by transfer of the certificate of ownership or through account transfer arranged by your broker. In each case, you avoid the tax on any potential gain and receive a deduction for the full fair market value of securities. To give a gift of stock, email us at staff@pathwaylearning.org, call us at 407-682-6942, or write us at P.O. Box 2062, Winter Park, FL 32790.

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I’d like to introduce you to some of my friends and the ministry partners we serve, but I can’t use their photos because they’re serving in the underground church in China, facing persecution.

So this is a photo of one of our recent monthly secure video conference meetings with church leaders and seminary students in several Chinese cities who are taking a Pathway Learning course in church planting. The man in the photo is Moses, my translator, an ordained minister in Orlando, and part-time director of Pathway Learning’s curriculum development. 

The church in communist China is facing some of the most severe persecution in decades. In 2016, Pathway Learning began providing the essential training needed to equip Chinese leaders to develop strong, healthy churches that transform lives and communities in the face of great suffering.

I can show you this picture below taken in Chengdu China in December 2018 with pastor Wang Yi, one of the top national leaders of the underground church. He was taken into custody a few days after this photo was taken and is still in prison today for his faith. This is his third Christmas in prison.

Steve Childers with pastor Wang Yi in December 2018 just days before he was imprisoned. This is his third Christmas in prison for his faith.

But the good news is that the churches in the underground movement in China are continuing to flourish – even in the face of persecution and the Covid pandemic.

I haven’t been able to return to China since the last wave of persecution. But in God’s providence, because our online learning platform was already developed, Pathway Learning is continuing to equip these leaders and many more.

In 2020 we began a new partnership with one of the most influential seminaries serving the Chinese underground church with more than 600 students, mostly from mainland China.

This month we’ll complete our first pilot course in church planting, with more than 30 Chinese leaders using our innovative online platform that is designed for interactive learning in group cohorts. Last week the seminary president sent me this encouraging message:

Our use of Pathway Learning has been a great success. These leaders must normally study online alone … but now through their Pathway Learning courses they experience the joy of learning together, being equipped, growing, and serving in the same class as though in a physical seminary.

When you give to Pathway Learning, you help equip underserved church leaders with the training and tools they need to plant and develop churches among the persecuted church in China and around the world.

Give today, and bring lasting hope to those facing persecution for their faith.

For the King!

steve

Steven L. Childers
President and CEO, Pathway Learning

WAYS TO GIVE

Online
Give using your credit card through our secure online form

Phone
Call us at 407-682-6942

Check by Regular Mail
Pathway Learning, P.O. Box 2062
Winter Park, FL 32790

Matching Gift
Your employer may also be able to double your gift. Please ask them.

Give a Gift of Stock
You may give securities either by transfer of the certificate of ownership or through account transfer arranged by your broker. In each case, you avoid the tax on any potential gain and receive a deduction for the full fair market value of securities. To give a gift of stock, email us at staff@pathwaylearning.org, call us at 407-682-6942, or write us at P.O. Box 2062, Winter Park, FL 32790.


We help underserved church leaders develop churches that transform lives and communities

Happy New Year and Great News!

Steve —  December 29, 2020 — Leave a comment

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From all of us here at Pathway Learning, we want to wish you a very happy and safe new year!

And we have some great news: We have received a matching grant for up to $50,000. Your gift will be doubled and will help Pathway meet the extraordinary demand we are receiving for our training.

When we first designed our innovative online and onsite courses for church leaders who could not access affordable training in traditional schools, we had no idea that the world would be turned upside down by a pandemic.

But today we give thanks to God for the remarkable compatibility of our courses with the new realities of our COVID-19 world, and the amazing new doors God is now opening for us to serve around the world.

The map above shows the areas of the world where church leaders are taking Pathway Learning online courses. But we also serve hundreds, maybe thousands, more church leaders around the world who do not have access to the internet – especially in Muslim West African and the persecuted in China.

For a closer look at some of our major global projects, just pick one below, click the link, and praise God with us for what he did in 2020:

Can we count on you to help us in 2021? Your help now tells us that you want to join with us and be a vital part of this unique ministry opportunity to help church leaders develop strong, healthy churches that transform lives and communities worldwide this new year.

May God richly bless you and your family in 2021.

For the King!

steve

PS: Donate now. Remember, a gift of $100 means $200 to Pathway Learning. Please prayerfully consider us in your end of the year giving. Thanks again!

Steven L. Childers
President and CEO, Pathway Learning

WAYS TO GIVE

Online
Give using your credit card through our secure online form

Phone
Call us at 407-682-6942

Check by Regular Mail
Pathway Learning, P.O. Box 2062
Winter Park, FL 32790

Matching Gift
Your employer may also be able to double your gift. Please ask them.

Give a Gift of Stock
You may give securities either by transfer of the certificate of ownership or through account transfer arranged by your broker. In each case, you avoid the tax on any potential gain and receive a deduction for the full fair market value of securities. To give a gift of stock, email us at staff@pathwaylearning.org, call us at 407-682-6942, or write us at P.O. Box 2062, Winter Park, FL 32790.


We help underserved church leaders develop churches that transform lives and communities