Equipping Pastors.
Strengthening Families.
Building Sustainable Ministries.
Helping rural Ugandan pastors develop practical skills, provide for their families, and faithfully serve their churches.
RPI’s first chicken project with some of the pastors’ wives.
After graduating from Year One Pastoral Training, pastors gain access to RPI’s Vocational / Sustainability / Discipleship Program.
Every pastor and community is different, so we help graduates develop practical plans based on their skills and local opportunities. This might include goat husbandry, farming, poultry, boda boda repair, hairdressing, or other small businesses.
The goal is simple: help pastors provide for their families while faithfully serving their churches without dependence on outside support.
Graduates also receive ongoing discipleship and regional support as they continue growing and applying their training within their local communities.
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Vocational / Sustainability / Discipleship Program
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Meet Pastor Aggrey Kasooma
Program: Vocational / Sustainability / Discipleship Program
Pastor Aggrey Kasooma grew up following the traditional beliefs practiced by his father before coming to know Christ through a nearby church. Today he pastors a small congregation while continuing to grow in biblical knowledge, pastoral leadership, and practical sustainability.
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The pastors you've met above are part of RPI’s larger Vocational / Sustainability / Discipleship Program. Your investment helps provide the training, discipleship, and practical support pastors need as they work toward greater sustainability for their families and ministries.
Monthly sponsors can support these pastors by selecting a recurring monthly giving level or choosing their own amount. Their gifts support the overall training program while providing opportunities to follow and pray for the pastors.
Whether you give monthly through sponsorship or make a larger one-time investment through general donations, you're an important part of RPI's ministry. We invite you to visit our website anytime to follow program updates and learn about the pastors, their training, and their prayer needs.
Vocational / Sustainability / Discipleship
Many rural pastors serve churches that are unable to provide enough income to support a pastor and his family. RPI's Vocational / Sustainability / Discipleship Program helps pastors develop practical skills, pursue sustainable sources of income, and continue growing through discipleship as they faithfully serve their churches and communities.
What the Program Looks Like
After completing Year One Pastoral Training, pastors have the opportunity to continue with RPI through practical vocational training, sustainability development, and ongoing discipleship.
Rather than assuming the same solution will work for every pastor, RPI looks at the skills, resources, family needs, and opportunities available within each pastor's local community. Vocational possibilities may include agriculture, goat husbandry, poultry, repair work, hairdressing, or other locally appropriate small businesses.
Agriculture and farming are especially valuable in rural Uganda because the skills pastors learn can be used within their own villages and shared with their families and communities. The emphasis is not simply on providing something to a pastor, but on helping him develop knowledge and skills that can continue producing long-term benefit.
Throughout the program, pastors also continue in discipleship and relationship with RPI. The goal is to help pastors strengthen their ability to provide for their families while remaining faithful to the churches and communities God has called them to serve.
Building Skills That Can Grow
Throughout this year, pastors and their families have continued putting vocational and sustainability principles into practice. Poultry projects are growing, pastors are learning through goat husbandry, and families are applying agricultural skills within their own communities.
One poultry project that began with approximately 50 chickens has been working toward growing to 500. RPI's goat project has also reached an important milestone with the first RPI-born goat being given to a pastor's family, helping demonstrate how a project can reproduce and continue benefiting additional families.
RPI has also continued developing its demonstration farm with goats, local chickens, matooke, and a village house. The purpose is practical: pastors can see and learn approaches that make sense within the same rural setting where they and their congregations live.
Entrepreneurship and Kingdom Business training are also helping pastors and their wives think intentionally about business, stewardship, and sustainable income. These lessons are designed to move beyond the classroom as pastors take what they learn home and put it into practice.
The goal is long-term sustainability—equipping pastors with practical knowledge and skills that can strengthen their families, ministries, and communities for years to come.
Why Monthly Giving Matters
RPI depends on recurring monthly sponsorship support to keep our pastoral training programs running. Our goal is to eventually have our training operations fully funded through committed monthly supporters, allowing general donations to focus more on infrastructure and program growth.
Until that goal is reached, general donations help fill gaps in operational funding. 100% of sponsorship contributions go directly toward funding the operational needs of our training programs, while general donations help meet various needs across the ministry.