{"id":99,"date":"2019-02-13T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-02-13T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:40:08","slug":"biblical-education-for-effective-christian-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/biblical-education-for-effective-christian-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Education for Effective Christian Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Equipped to Equip<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cDr. Alexandre Sacha Mendes\u201d\u2014it was fun for me to say that today as I greeted Pastor<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20190213123744\/FBS-6-Sacha-Mendes-Small-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20190213123744\/FBS-6-Sacha-Mendes-Small-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20190213123744\/FBS-6-Sacha-Mendes-Small.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/> Mendes. \u201cSacha,\u201d as he likes to be called, is a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/master-of-divinity\">Faith Bible Seminary M.Div.<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">grad (2010) who recently earned his D.Min. in Expository Preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastor Sacha\u2019s D.Min. project focused on equipping Brazilian pastors to preach Christ from the Proverbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Mendes was part of FBS\u2019 first M.Div. cohort (2007-2010). Upon graduation from FBS, Sacha was hired as an Associate Pastor at Maranatha Baptist Church in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil. On February 24, 2019, Pastor Mendes will be installed as Sr. Pastor at this church where he has served for nearly a decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Spreading the Influence of Biblical Counseling World-Wide<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor Sacha is on the Board of Directors of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. And he was a founding member of the Association of Brazilian Counselors Biblical (ABCB) where he still serves in a leadership role. Sacha has also published several books in Brazil in Portuguese.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even though Spanish is his second language (English his third), Pastor Mendes is sharing sixteen sessions at this weeks<\/span>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/biblical-counseling-training-conference\">2019 Faith Biblical Counseling Training Conference<\/a> i<span style=\"color: #000000;\">n the Spanish track\u2014without a translator. Topics include <em>Counseling Youth<\/em>, <em>Creating a Culture of Care in Your Church<\/em>, <em>Peacemaking<\/em>, and <em>Discerning God\u2019s Will<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipped to Equip \u201cDr. Alexandre Sacha Mendes\u201d\u2014it was fun for me to say that today as I greeted Pastor Mendes. \u201cSacha,\u201d as he likes to be called, is a Faith Bible Seminary M.Div. grad (2010) who recently earned his D.Min. in Expository Preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastor Sacha\u2019s D.Min. project focused on equipping&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/biblical-education-for-effective-christian-ministry\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26602],"tags":[244,4970,28126],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biblical Education for Effective Christian Ministry - Faith Bible Seminary Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/biblical-education-for-effective-christian-ministry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biblical Education for Effective Christian Ministry - Faith Bible Seminary Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Equipped to Equip \u201cDr. Alexandre Sacha Mendes\u201d\u2014it was fun for me to say that today as I greeted Pastor Mendes. \u201cSacha,\u201d as he likes to be called, is a Faith Bible Seminary M.Div. grad (2010) who recently earned his D.Min. in Expository Preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. 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