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Welcome to River of Life Ministries
International, the best
missions training center in Southwest Missouri. I am Kay Lenz, founder and
director of the school. We are training missionaries, preparing them to
answer the call. The curriculum is
based on more than 16 years of ministry experience, over 12 years of
missionary experience, and 2 years living with primitive peoples. We are
nondenominational, leaving the door open to work with all denominations.
We do not teach church doctrine. We teach how to be a successful
missionary. There are plenty of Bible schools, but few missions schools
to train the missionary. Most seminaries and Bible schools have little,
if no teaching on missions. Most missionaries go to the field, totally
unprepared for the things they will face.
We lived for two years
among the Kuna Indians who inhabit a chain of islands off the coast of
Panama, helping to raise up a church and then turn it over to an
indigenous pastor. We have contacts with pastors from Guatemala to
Panama and still have contacts to work with the Kuna as well as other
indigenous tribes in Central America for training experience. We lived
for 7 years in Panama and 18 months in Guatemala.
In January, 2003 we established River of Life Missions
Training Center. We have had two classes graduate in Panama and we had 2
classes in Guatemala.
We have relocated the training center to Joplin, Missouri, the center of
the US, because we feel Americans are more likely to become missionaries.
We can also offer assistance in learning Spanish. This is a school of excellence for those who are
called to be missionaries. Students graduate prepared to go into all the
world.
River of Life is more than just a school, it is a mission's training center,
offering practical training as well. We are also a mission's
organization and offer student placement after graduation. We are a
501(c)3 nonprofit ministry.
River of Life Ministries, Intl.
P.O.
Box 2403
Joplin, Mo 64803
e-mail
revkay@riveroflifemissions.org
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Rev. Kay Lenz, school
director
I am an ordained minister and have been in ministry for 16 years, a missionary for 12 years, almost
9
years full time, and have experience working with primitive people
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Here I am in
front of our hut in San Blas in the native Kuna costume worn by the Kuna
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