August 2010: Volume 4, Issue 2 Pursuing Ministerial Excellence

Faculty Education Blesses Central America

nations. This is the harvest you will reap through the
faculty development seminars offered by GATS.

1. Teachers will become well versed in using course

objectives and lesson plans.
2. The wide variety of teaching styles taught and
demonstrated in seminars will be practiced.
3. The qualities of a good teacher, established and
defined in seminars, will be implemented and devel-
oped by teachers.
4. Teachers will focus on the “final product” they
want to produce.
5. Attendance at the Guatemala Bible school is at an
all time high—363 students!
6. Nicaragua and Honduras have been blessed with
new properties to build Bible school facilities on.
This is felt to be God’s way of putting His stamp of
Brad Thompson, GATS representative for Central approval on the renewed vision for training.
America/ Caribbean reports: I am seeing an enthusi-
asm in the forty-eight teachers in Guatemala that I
have never seen before. They are more focused and
professional in their approach and have adapted new
teaching techniques. Many who were not high school
graduates have now obtained their GED and others
have taken college classes to get their teaching de-
gree. Our faculty has risen to a much higher level.
They have become more responsible teachers and are
showing pride in their teaching ministry. Our goal
now is to be accredited through the national depart-
ment of education.

A Bible school can have a nice facility and great

curriculum, but if the teachers are not equipped the
program will not be productive. Faculty training
empowers our teachers to equip students to impact
Student Stories. On any given day a
host of God-called missionaries and
instructors are training literally thou-
sands of students for apostolic minis-
try.
GATS is Equipping
Our students come from every class of the Pacific Region
life, have diverse backgrounds, and
speak dozens of different languages.
Kevin Vacca, GATS repre-
Yet they all come, having one thing in
sentative for the Pacific
common. They want to be equipped to
region shares some exciting
reach their world. They are doing just
highlights:
that, as upwards of 200,000 souls
are being baptized in Jesus name and
receiving the baptism of the Holy
Spirit each year. Hundreds of SAMOA: Advance
churches are being started or led by Teacher Training
these trained men and women. took place in Samoa with
seven in attendance.
Within the pages of this web-based
modern Book of Acts you will find
the stories of apostolic men and FIJI: One hundred
women, students and staff in and out and forty enjoy eight
of our schools relentlessly endeavoring GATS lessons in Fiji.
to do their best to achieve apostolic
revival. Through the sights and
sounds of articles, pictures, podcasts, TONGA: With seven-
and video clips stories are shared of teen in attendance,
how, together, students, sponsors and Tonga has three, four hour,
schools are touching people, transmit- days of Advance Teacher
ting truth, and transforming nations. Training—making them
second in the world to com-
plete twenty-four hours of
Advance Educator Series
lessons. 

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