Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) told members of the parliament, on November 1, 2023, that over 75 per cent of Pastors of the Association of Pentecostal Churches in Rwanda (ADEPR) have only a primary school education level.<\/p>\nRGB CEO, Usta Kaitesi, revealed the pastors\u2019 education status while presenting the RGB 2022\/23 report.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe assessed ADEPR church pastors\u2019 capacity and found that they still have a long journey in terms of reforms. Currently, over 75 per cent of ADEPR pastors have only a primary school level,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said that over 1,000 pastors, who were laid off, have not even completed primary school.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don’t have the required capacity to lead their congregations,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n
She said that there are other churches with similiar problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe first focused on ADEPR this time as it has 2.8 million believers which is a big number of Rwandans, and currently it employs over 4,000 workers. We want to strongly build the church to have strong leadership and capacity,\u201d she said, adding that reforms will continue.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the operations of the umbrella of Pentecostal churches, ADEPR, in 2020, showed that poor governance practices were responsible for sustained conflicts within the church.<\/p>\n
\u201cADEPR leadership was criticized and therefore we dissolved leaders, suspended leaders, and established an interim committee. We tasked the leaders to establish rules and the church\u2019s institutions. This was the third time such issues were happening in ADEPR. That is why we deployed a team to analyze what is behind the wrangles,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In 2022, the Association of Pentecostal Churches of Rwanda (ADEPR) instated new leaders on the national level, and said it worked on the issues that often-caused problems in the church.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSome pastors were getting salaries, others were getting nothing. Some had health insurance, others didn\u2019t have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The need of graduates in theology<\/p>\n
In 2021, two new private universities that will produce graduates in theology opened in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, to respond to the pressure on churches and faith-based organisations to be headed by degree holders.<\/p>\n
These include the East African Christian College (EACC) and the Africa College of Theology.<\/p>\n
The two higher learning institutions received the green light to start operating two years after the government, through the Rwanda Governance Board, enacted the Faith-based Organisations law requiring church leaders to hold a bachelors degree in theology.<\/p>\n
At the time, there was no higher education institution in the country offering a theology programme.<\/p>\n
Other than the Catholic Church, which requires priests and other clergy to have a suitable qualification, there has been no similar requirement in other denominations. As a consequence, many churches are headed by people with limited skills, except at top management level.<\/p>\n
According to the law, all church- and faith-based organisations should be led by theology graduates or else they will not be allowed to operate. The law came into force to curb poor leadership in churches, according to the Rwanda Governance Board that regulates faith-based organisations.<\/p>\n
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