2023 Training Conference Plans


Perú – Cusco Regional Training
February 10-20, 2023
Description: This will be our second training in the Cuzco region and will expand upon the size and diversity of the pastoral couples participating to serve around 50 couples.
Theme: The Supremacy of Christ in life and ministry, Colossians
Location: Hotel Agustos, Urubamba, Perú
Teaching Team Members: Rick and Diana Lowe, William and Ruth Evaristo, Sid and Zane Williams, Jim and Arline Parris

Teacher Training
March 9-12, 2023
Description: This will be a gathering of our primary teaching team members. We will continue our assessment and development of our training conferences, themes and team member responsibilities. It is a “sharpening of our skills” workshop.
Theme: Jesus Changes Everything
Location: Williams Ranch, Pearsall, Texas

Colombia – Pastoral Couples Training
April 13-23, 2023
Description: The Bogotá regional association of churches and their presidents are coming together to sponsor this training with a desire to further their unity and commitment to pastoral care and training.
Theme: Faithfulness in the Midst of Suffering
Location: Villa Letty, Chinauta, Colombia.
Teaching Team Members: Don and Claudia Erickson, Rick and Diana Lowe, William and Ruth Evaristo, Bob and Joyce Werntz.

Armenia – Pastoral Couples Training
May 18-29, 2023
Description: Despite the stresses and losses from the ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan, the Lord has been at work brining a new spirit of unity and cooperation amongst the churches in Armenia. This conference will aim at inviting younger pastoral couples and seeks to further the unity that God is developing in the Armenian church and involve a greater number of local leaders in the planning and execution of the conference.
Theme: Ministry in Times of Anxiety
Location: Tsaghkahovit Hotel, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia
Teaching Team Members: Will Schraven, Brad and Kay Adams, Rick and Diana Lowe, Mike and Kathy Maggard

Zambia – Pastoral Couples Training
June 28 – July 10, 2023
Description: This will be our second trip to the more remote northern region of Zambia. We hope to have 30-35 couples in attendance. A Biblical understanding of marriage and the loving treatment of women are key topics in a culture that struggles with wife abuse. We will be looking at Genesis 1 -3 and 1 Peter
Theme: A Lifetime Together
Location: Mpulungu, Zambia
Teaching Team Members: Rick and Diana Lowe, Don and Claudia Erickson, Arlie and Noemi Francis

Eastern Europe – Pastoral Couples Training
August 17-25, 2023 (TBD)
Description: We are currently in conversation and praying with our partners in Moldova and Ukraine to seek the Lord’s leading about the best ways that we can serve them. In Ukraine this might be a small team to visit various locations in support of our partners still serving there. In Moldova, the churches continue to serve a vast refugee population. Please join us in prayer for the Lord’s leading.
Theme: TBD
Teaching Team Members: Will Schraven, Rick and Diana Lowe

Kosovo – Pastoral Couples Training
August 25 – September 3, 2023
Description: The evangelical church in Kosovo is very young and the pastoral couples struggle with being isolated and rejected from the predominately Muslim culture.
Theme: Growing Together in Faith
Location: Vërmica, Kosovo
Teaching Team Members: Will Schraven, Jim and Arline Parris, Brad Adams, Jim and Susie Erb, Andy and Nancy Hagen

Honduras – Pastoral Couples Training
September 22 – October 1, 2023
Description: This will be our first conference in Honduras. Pastor Don Erickson has been teaching a group of pastors there via the Evangelical Free Church for several years. This training would expand upon this group and network through the ministry of El Ayudante and the Honduran churches.
Theme: Faithfulness in the Midst of Suffering.
Location: TBD
Teaching Team Members: Don and Claudia Erickson, William and Ruth Evaristo, Rick and Diana Lowe, Sid and Zane Williams
2024 Conferences may include: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Rwanda
If you are interested in participating in one of our training conferences, please write to us at info@shepherdssupport.org