R.A.U.’s primary goal is to strengthen local churches and pastors so that they can plant churches in the many unreached villages in their geographical region. R.A.U. hopes to do this by bringing pastors, church leaders and planters for retreats and conferences for Biblical encouragement. Most pastors can only get away for short periods time. The R.A.U. compound will also serve as a base of operations to have such conferences throughout North Uganda, South Sudan, Northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, and Lord willing (North) Sudan as well as the surrounding nations. We believe this to be the most effective way for us to help plant churches in the many unreached villages (See 2 Timothy 2:2).

We believe sound Biblical training is paramount for the advancement of the gospel among the unreached. Please pray that we will remain faithful to  follow Jesus words in Matthew 28:18-20,  “And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Emphasis mine)

Matt Perman’s amplifies this point in his blog piece “How Lack of Theological Training in the Developing World Weakens World Missions”:

“Here are two examples from JP Moreland’s excellent book Love Your God with All Your Mind: The

I once attended a meeting of missionaries from around the world, at which a national Christian leader from Central America stood up and passionately exhorted North American mission agencies to stop sending evangelists to his country because their efforts were producing Marxists bent on overthrowing the government.

You could have heard a pin drop in that meeting, and confusion was written on everyone’s face. This leader went on to explain that the leading “Christian” thinkers in his country held to liberation theology, a form of Marxism draped in religious garb. Evangelical missionaries would lead people to Christ, but the liberals were attracting the thinking leaders among the converts and training them in Marxist ideology, which these liberals identified as the true center of biblical theology.

The leader pleaded with North Americans to send more theologians and Bible teachers and to help set up more seminaries and training centers in his country because the need for intellectual leadership was so great.

Here’s the second example:

Recently, I met a man from Fiji who was won to Christ by an evangelical missionary and who, subsequent to conversion, wanted to come to the United States for seminary training.

Unfortunately, there was no money for this sort of “intellectual” development in the evangelical missions strategy there, but theological liberals gave him a scholarship to study at a liberal seminary in Texas.

By the time I met him, he had given up his faith and was going back to Fiji with an extremely secular view of Christianity. His mission: to pastor a church!

Moreland concludes:

If evangelicals placed more value on the mind, we would give more to developing intellectual leadership around the world. Happily, some good things are now being done in this area, but we need to intensify our efforts in this regard, and this will happen only if we evangelicals come to value more fully Christ’s admonitions to be good stewards of the intellectual life”