Our Ministries

ALARM’s passion is to help the African church serve as an agent of change, fostering transformation that goes deeper than superficial, nominal Christianity. In addition to regular conferences for pastors, ALARM trains men and women for church leadership in a variety of venues:

  • The Christian Leadership Institute of Sudan (Yei, Sudan)
  • Center for Leadership and Forgiveness (Kigali, Rwanda)
  • Center for Leadership and Church Development (Lietnhom, Sudan)
  • Pastoral Leadership Training Institute (Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda)
  • Planned training centers in Burundi, Congo, Tanzania, Zambia,

We recognize that women, in particular, have suffered greatly because of the waves of violence that have ravaged so much of the African continent. Widowed, abandoned, or violated, they are often powerless and voiceless. ALARM’s African Women’s Initiatives relieve some of this burden while empowering women to negotiate for themselves and their children a brighter future. We conduct conferences for women in all the countries we serve, providing health education, Bible training, and human rights awareness. ALARM also offers the Women’s Leadership Training Institute (a three year program of instruction in biblical studies and theology), the Institute for Women’s Excellence (a school for neglected girls in Rwanda), adult literacy training, and wide-ranging micro-business projects.

Closely related to these projects is ALARM’s Youth Advocacy Program, which provides young people with vocational training, health education, and discipleship. A vocational training center is under construction in Rwanda, with similar facilities planned in Congo and Zambia.

Some of ALARM’s ministries engage people in places where the children have no schools. Since social transformation is impossible without education, ALARM has started schools in Zambia and Sudan. In Lietnhom, Sudan, where any classes had to be held under trees and the nearest secondary school was 50 miles away, ALARM is building Linda Primary School and Hope Secondary School, providing classrooms and training teachers in the name of Jesus.

ALARM routinely offers special conferences on forgiveness and reconciliation, conflict resolution, and human rights. These have proven especially helpful for government leaders, and we are grateful for the opportunity to train these influential men and women regarding such significant issues. However, ALARM does not accept any government funding for these events.