Many of our mission fields are situated in rural areas. The local population there often has had little education, and the same is true of the people in the churches emerging there. These are no suitable applicants for the major training institutes in the country, and most existing Bible courses require a higher level of education.

Should this mean that they do not qualify for responsible leadership? Must they remain dependent on missionaries for ever? We could no longer dodge these questions. In recent years, we have developed a kind of „itinerant“ Bible School (CEFOLÍ), which has proved a good investment especially in the rural mission fields of Argentina. It supports the training also of those indigenous leaders who have had only relatively little education. It provides them with the tools enabling them to give leadership to the mission churches on site or even to start new mission initiatives. This is how it works: The individual students receive study materials to work on. About two months later a teacher visits the region for one or two weeks and goes over the questions with them, one by one. Usually, this is a time when many things are talked about, and the students often go back home with a sense of fulfilment. Hundreds of students have already benefited from these courses.

Just to give an example: In the mission field of El Impenetrable this training has resulted in an important pool of workers in the many rain-forest churches. The Oberá Bible School has the responsibility for this project and has released the teachers Leopoldo and Mabel Castro in order to monitor the project.