Last month in Orlando, Florida, thousands of women from all over the nation and the world descended on The Gospel Coalition’s National Women’s Conference with the ambition to do good for pastors overseas. Hundreds of those women sponsored 10,000 books for a program sponsored by TGC called Theological Famine Relief, which aims to support, supply and equip pastors in Africa, Asia and South America who need access to theological and leadership training materials.
TGC partnered with Crossway publishers to create 2,000 sets of leadership book packages for English-speaking church leaders. The women attending this conference not only sponsored the book sets to benefit these pastors, but they also “eagerly” assembled the packages and wrote encouraging words to the leaders who would receive them.
According to TGC’s International Outreach website, more than 75 percent of Christians worldwide live on the continents of Africa, Asia and South America, and the growth rate is outpacing the supply of trained church leaders. They estimate that 85 percent of the more than two million evangelical churches worldwide are led by pastors with insufficient training. Their mission is to “partnering with translators, publishers, and missions networks to provide new access to biblical resources in digital and physical formats … to strengthen thousands of congregations by helping to equip the pastors and elders called to shepherd them.”
