About Us
Who are we?
Why do we exist?
Imprint specifically wants to see the church in Africa strengthened and further established via the utilisation of biblical resources and training. We provide access to sound theological resources through publishing and online media. By providing academic training, we equip and enrich the pastors, giving them a clearer knowledge of how to develop a healthy church.
This, in turn, will equip the church to reach out to, and uplift, their communities. Churches are at the forefront of efforts to uplift society by promoting and teaching the values of community service, family stability, morality, and the sanctity of marriage. Access to necessary Christ centred resources and training offers churches the platform to facilitate these efforts. Many churches, particularly in impoverished and previously disadvantaged areas, are currently hindered in doing this due to the cost involved. We aim to reach communities through the local church by working alongside local church leaders and providing academic support and tuition which will enable and empower them.
Our purpose is to reclaim the gospel in the growing church in Africa. We do everything we can to help current and future pastors see what a biblically healthy church looks like, and take practical steps to become one.
What do we do?
Publishing
Training
We provide four avenues of training. We come alongside local churches and provide resources and support as they take on interns and train them for the ministry. We have our own long-distance internship program which provides the full-time pastor with the opportunity to be trained without being removed from his local community. Pastors can also attend in-depth, short internships at our local church. In addition to the practical emphasis of these programs, pastors are to support and assist in the planting and building of healthy churches in their communities. The focus of these internship programs is to engender a biblical philosophy of ministry, create a deeper understanding of individual ministry roles in a healthy church and promote the healthy church – healthy community concept. Our “support a shepherd” program is an online networking forum providing pastors with access to counselling, encouragement and fellowship. This program is available to both individuals and groups.
Conferences
Our directors
Doug Van Meter
Pastor
Mario Maneville
Pastor
Mario is the lead pastor of Reformed Community Church in Bellville South in the Western Cape of South Africa. He also serves as missions coordinator for HeartCry Missionary Society in the Western Cape and as the Southern African Cohort Leader for the Church in Hard Places Apprenticeship. He is passionate about training and equipping pastors, especially those from Pentecostal and Charismatic backgrounds and longs to see healthy, gospel-driven churches planted in poor communities. He is married to Charlene and together they parent five beautiful children.
Sipho Mfusi
Pastor
Tommie van der Walt
Pastor
Quintin Starkey
Pastor
Divi University
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