Toward Repositioning the Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church Holistic Ministry: Establishing Live Life Emerging Leaders Transformational Training Center

As a partaker with the national Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church Head Office Youth Ministry, I was privileged to travel to all parts of Ethiopia, which opened my eyes to observe the strengths and weaknesses of my denomination. Despite the size of a local church, I witnessed a struggle for consistency to extend ministerial hands to the community the church is situated in and struggle with the responsibility of intentionally mentoring young leaders. Few local churches attempt to cease becoming an island to their communities; they need to provide a training solution to potential young leaders that are left with no determinative future.
This project assumed that the contemporary tendency of EKHC local churches exclusivity on church-based activities and their minimal emphasis on community interventions is a deviation from the Great Commandment (John 13:34) and Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20). It attempted to present vital signs that signaled the drift churches are experiencing. It undertakes that EKHC local churches are at a historic critical juncture as they prepare for their centenary. The project outcome proposed the need of repositioning EKHC local churches to previously held ideologies and practices through cultural transformation. Therefore, the project initiated the establishment of an emerging leaders’ transformational training center to create and mobilize a cultural transformation embodied with sound theological and practical restructuring of holistic ministry.