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Theophile Ntakamunenga

National Director of Good News Jail & Prison Ministry (GNJPM)

I am the father of a family of two boys and two girls with only one wife. They are all servants of God. I have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior since 1991 and have received a call to teach. I teach in a Bible school and seek to bring the faithful to spiritual maturity. As National Director of GNJPM, our intention is to see all of our prisoners come into contact with our Lord Jesus Christ through the Community Bible Study Program. We see ourselves as a hand of the Church to work together with the churches to see inmates become maturing disciples of Christ. We know Community Bible Study Program will help much.

This year we are going to put a lot of strength into training the pastors so that they put the ministry of prisons to heart. This year we want to train pastors who are in the cities where our prisons are located in the following subjects:

  1. Trauma healing because it is a crying need that the Church of Burundi and especially the pastors so need to know. Trained Pastors will help us in this matter in prisons.
  2. Biblical counseling so that pastors can help both their church and our prisoners.
  3. Empowerment of our pastors and churches so that they can get out of poverty and help prisoners.
  4. Teach pastors how to plan their work and do monitoring and evaluation in order to make their work effective. We want churches to get involved in prison ministry and help us strengthen prisoners holistically.

VISION: Community Bible Study International is of great importance to us because it helps us to truly understand the Word of Truth. I love the way questions are asked and the opportunity Community Bible Study gives its students to reflect on relevant issues. Community Bible Study gives us a clear commentary, which makes it easy to understand. Our vision for this year in Community Bible Study: Burundi within GNJPM, is to increase our efforts in making the ministry more efficient in the prisons and thus have very good returns in terms of Christian maturity for all those who follow CBS.