MY STORY
I, Pastor Archangelo Gitonga, am married and blessed with two kids of ages 21 a boy and 14 a girl who is currently schooling at mtwapa north secondary school . I graduated with a bachelors degree in Ministerial Theology in 2009 through the Heavenly Light Christian College, Kenya based in United States of America. I am the senior pastor and founder of The Sanctified Ministries, Mtwapa and I am running a theological college, Institute of Theological Studies (ITHEOS) offering certificate and diploma courses at affordable rates to pastors and church leaders who have not had formal training in ministry. The first class of ten students is in the fourth out of five semesters. I use training materials from Pamoja Ministries located at Arusha, Tanzania. There are five (5) pastors and five (5) church leaders in the class now. Every Sunday after worship we request members to donate for the needy around mtwapa an exercise I enjoy.
MY BUSINESS
I ran a college for training pastors and church leaders. We have been in the programme for two years,
A total of 10 students are set to graduate early April through the supervision of pamoja ministries in arusha, Tanzania.
The rates for one semester (about four months) per student are fifty seven (57) dollars as shown below:
Training materials 15 dollars, Rent and lighting 10 dollars, Exams, Printing and Stationery 4 dollars, Transport and Communication 5 dollars, Office and Facilitation costs 10 dollars, Balance (Personal earnings) 13 dollars. This finally gives me about 32.5 dollars per month which I use for my needs and shall repay the loan advanced to me with at at least 3 dollars weekly till I pay back the full loan.
Right now we are using the recorded materials we receive from the United States of America through the Ministry at Arusha Tanzania. The equipment we use is a DVD player to run the DVDs, a sound system and a monitor which is a personal Television set shared both in my house (pastor's) and at the class of ministry. This monitor is obviously both inconveniencing and quite small in the class.
I am planning to purchase a projector which will cast images more clearly and obviously larger for the class. The same projector will be useful at the church during services especially for teaching programs.
Apart from this I also run a weekly instructional program in primary schools around Mtwapa. This projector will provide a big help in providing visual aids to the students who happen to be young ones. This shall be a real benefit to the community around me.
The projector costs 450 dollars, that is KES 40500.
Once more I thank Zidisha and all the lenders in advance. God bless you as you lend towards this program.