{"id":8211,"date":"2019-09-10T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/?post_type=prayerline&#038;p=8211"},"modified":"2019-11-11T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:39:24","slug":"nurturing-a-culture-of-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"prayerline","link":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/nurturing-a-culture-of-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurturing a culture of discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Torur&nbsp;has just finished high school. Unlike most of his friends, he\u2019s not going to university. Nor is he finding a job to earn some money. Not yet anyway.&nbsp;Instead, he\u2019s decided to spend a year serving&nbsp;KFS Faroe Islands,&nbsp;one of the newest IFES&nbsp;student&nbsp;movements. Having been helped by the&nbsp;KFS&nbsp;high school ministry himself,&nbsp;Torur&nbsp;is keen to see other young people encouraged and discipled.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His only&nbsp;co-worker,&nbsp;Ragnhard, the General Secretary, shared more:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-quote\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> \u201c95% of people in the Faroe Islands identify as Christians. But for many of them, it just means that they go to church at Christmas, and for weddings and funerals.&nbsp;Some go to church&nbsp;more&nbsp;regularly, but the&nbsp;churches here lack&nbsp;a culture of discipleship.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The KFS School of Discipleship&nbsp;provides young people with a place where they can be discipled. Each Monday evening,&nbsp;the 25+ young people meet to&nbsp;be trained in discipleship, apologetics,&nbsp;evangelism&nbsp;and leading&nbsp;Bible studies.&nbsp;Ragnhard&nbsp;and&nbsp;Torur&nbsp;would love to see&nbsp;the trainees go on to establish a university student ministry, and ultimately&nbsp;strengthen the discipleship of the Church. Pray that&nbsp;their&nbsp;dream would become a reality.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-list\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thank God for&nbsp;Torur\u2019s&nbsp;willingness to serve KFS this year and pray that God would use him in reaching more students with the life-transforming news of Jesus.&nbsp; <br><\/li><li> Pray that the work on translating Uncover&nbsp;John, a resource for seekers, would be finished soon and that many young Christians in the Faroe Islands would use it help their friends encounter Jesus.&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for praying with us!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":8212,"template":"","area":[458,561],"theme":[1211],"class_list":["post-8211","prayerline","type-prayerline","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","area-europe","area-faroe-islands","theme-leadership-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nurturing a culture of discipleship &#183; IFES Prayerline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Torur&nbsp;has just finished high school. 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