warrior training school

war-ri-or [wawr-ee-er, wawr-yer, wor-ee-er, wor-yer] –noun
1. a person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier.
2. a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness, as in politics or athletics.

How do you create intensely committed workers in a region where most adults have been conditioned by five hundred years of social, economic, political and religious oppression to not have initiative, to be subservient, docile, compliant and passive?

It is amazingly difficult and frustrating.

Children, however, can still be exempt from the ravages of the oppressive environment that surrounds them; they haven’t yet been completely indoctrinated to believe that they can’t be strong and bold in Christ.

GFB has initiated a training program for “children,” i.e., teenagers and select middle school-aged kids, which is designed to assist them in transforming their minds and spirits from that of their parents to that of Christ. They are chosen carefully based upon their involvement in church activities, their growth in their faith and in their biblical knowledge. They have to pass an entrance exam and agree to intense study and training for one year. Their parents are consulted, the program explained to them, and they have to agree to their child’s participation in the program.

The program is called “Warriors Advancing the Kingdom.” The participants are called “warriors” and they are trained to be and expected to be soldiers in the warfare between light and darkness. They take their responsibility seriously.

They study the Bible, music, English, Christian theater, public speaking; they take field trips to engage in Bible studies in homes, visit the sick, speak in public, pray for the sick... in other words, they participate in active ministry.