FAQs

What services does the Institute for Leadership Formation at PFI provide PF ministries?
Prison Fellowship International is committed to training indigenous leadership through its Institute for Leadership Formation.
The Institute for Leadership Formation focuses on four main areas of leadership:

• The leader’s spiritual life
• The leader’s personal life
• The leader’s relationships
• The leader and the organisation 
   

What is the purpose of the Institute for Leadership Formation?

To affirm the calling to leadership and to enable these leaders, through intentional leadership formation, to serve their respective PF organisations in the fulfilment of the Prison Fellowship International mission and vision http://www.pfi.org/about-us.
 

What are the objectives  of the Institute for Leadership Formation?

We aim to implement an intentional and integrated process of:

• Assisting emerging PF leaders in discerning their vocation and calling to ministry leadership
• Supporting emerging, new, and established leaders, in a guided process of spiritual formation designed to nurture and develop the character of spiritual leadership
• Equipping these leaders with leadership and management skills by providing learning opportunities and ongoing mentoring and coaching. 
  

How do we serve the world?

• Credentialing - National leaders successfully completing the course will receive a certificate of achievement along with continuing education seminars and ongoing support from the Institute.
• Faculty - The Institute is blessed with a multicultural and multinational faculty with decades of experience in ministry and other areas of expertise. Participants will also be linked with a mentor in their home country to provide regular encouragement, support and accountability.
• Our Vision - We are convinced that the Institute will contribute to the continuing growth and development of national ministries, translating to the fact that more prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and their families will be reached with the Gospel and touched by the love of Jesus Christ.