An alliance of pastors and church leaders who want to see God’s kingdom expand across Ethiopia beginning in the West Shewa region of Oromia.

Why create another network of Christian leaders and pastors in Ethiopia?

The Church is fighting a war. In order to win any battle, an army must engage the battle as one body with a singular mission under the banner of one King. The soldiers (Christians) must have access to clear objectives, training, communication, strategy, and the resources necessary for each battalion (church) to carry out its mission.

Ethiopian Christian leaders have been doing well in smaller battles through evangelism and church planting. And to God’s glory, the Church has taken much ground over the past couple of decades. And many networks of Christians have formed for different purposes.

Many of the networks and alliances for Christians and church leaders in Ethiopia are focused on certain demographics (eg. youth, women, theologians, pastors); or they are centered around a certain mission (eg. ending poverty, evangelism, or church planting); or they are attempting to provide much needed theological education; and some are rallying different faiths together for one purpose.

This alliance has several purposes: to unite Protestant Christian leaders together in service to one King; to provide leadership, objectives, goals, and strategy to expand the kingdom; to combat the spread of false teaching; and to provide resources and trainings to leaders and Christians who can’t afford it.

What is the Goal?

To expand the Kingdom of God across Ethiopia so its citizens flourish spiritually, mentally, physically, socially, and economically in Kingdom Communities until the entire nation is discipled and claimed for Christ.

What is the Problem?

The broader Protestant Church in Ethiopia suffers from disunity and therefore lacks the ability to win the larger battle.

Some of the problems Christ’s Kingdom is facing are:

  • Individualism: The problem is that Christian leaders are spread too thin. Each church, pastor, and leader seems to be fighting their own battle.
  • Disunity: Christian leaders often spend more time disagreeing about their 1% of differences, rather than uniting over the 99% of shared doctrine.
  • Lack of Resources: Most Ethiopian leaders do not have access to the resources, knowledge, and/or theology it takes to preach and teach the Bible properly. 
  • Lack of Discipleship: Discipleship has been focused on evangelism and church planting, rather than bringing Christians into maturity in every area of life.
  • False Teaching: False teaching is rampant in Ethiopia due to many reasons: sin, greed, lack of biblical training and knowledge, etc.

What is the Solution?

In order to win any battle, the army must fight as one team. A unified leadership must provide the objectives, training, communication, strategy, and resources each battalion needs to carry out their mission.

This can be accomplished by:

  • Uniting: Creating a broad and unified force, a network of Protestant pastors and Church leaders who want to see God’s kingdom come to earth and win the battle against the enemy.
  • Distributing Resources: Creating and distributing theological resources, digital and print, in local languages to help Christian leaders disciple their people in sound doctrine.
  • Education & Discipleship: Provide trainings, seminars, and conferences for Christian leaders who want to grow in their knowledge of theology and economics. 
  • Fighting False Teaching: Preach and teach sound doctrine. Also, write Christian literature leaders can use to disciple their people, evangelize the lost, and combat false teaching in their churches and communities.

What are the Requirements to be involved?

In order to unite on common theological ground, Christian leaders who wish to receive the benefits of the network will be asked to agree to the following statements:

  • Kingdom Fellowship of Protestant Leaders – Purpose, Mission, and Strategy
  • Kingdom Fellowship of Protestant Leaders – Member Agreement (Statement of Unity)
  • Ascribe & Declare of Ethiopia – Statement of Faith

What are the Benefits?

The benefits of being a member of this Christian leaders network are as follows:

  • Godly relationships and allies with Christian leaders, pastors, and churches near and abroad Ethiopia.
  • Common leadership, mission, objectives, strategies, and communication to win the battle against the enemy.
  • Free or heavily discounted Christian literature.
  • Free or heavily discounted trainings, seminars, and conferences.

Join us! Pray the kingdom of Christ fills the earth and God’s people take dominion of all Ethiopia for his glory and the people’s good.

For The King,

Matthew Adams

President, Kingdom Fellowship of Protestant Leaders