Church Leadership in Nepal

Cross-Way Church has already planted more than twenty churches in surrounding Nepali villages. In cooperation with the local seminary, Cross-Way has developed and sent passionate and gifted leaders to lead these churches. As these churches proclaim the good news, they see the hunger for Jesus among the people of Nepal, and the overwhelming response to the gospel compels them to work to plant many more local churches in the future.

REFORMED & PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY (RPS)

RPS (originally established in 1999 as Evangelical Presbyterian Theological Seminary) exists to provide Christ-centered training to equip godly leaders for the Nepali church, who are authentic in Christian character, competent in theological knowledge, and equipped for ministry

The initial batch of students at the newly established EPTS was only a small number of 13 students. All of them were local church pastors in the Kathmandu Valley and were eager to undertake a formal theological education. Due to their busy situations in their respective church ministries, the classes were offered during evening time from January 2000 to 2003. The presently ongoing daytime and residential scholar system began in 2002 when students were recruited from different provincial regions. Several Presbyterian churches in Nepal recommended students, and teachers introduced by Presbyterian missions taught the students. The purpose of EPTS was to produce new church planters who were equipped with Reformed theology and a Presbyterian Church tradition.

menu_logo_imgIn 2004, our missionaries joined EPTS and began teaching at the seminary. He now serves as the chairperson and helped develop the current, fully-accredited Bachelor of Theology program. Gifts, donations, and scholarships enable more than 35 students per year to live on-campus and take classes full-time in order to receive the Christ-centered training at RPS that will develop them into godly church leaders who are authentic in Christian character, competent in theological knowledge, and carry out a Reformed Worldview in life and ministry as they passionately serve the Nepali church.

The name change for the seminary from Evangelical Presbyterian Theological Seminary to Reformed and Presbyterian Seminary was approved by the Board of Trustees and declared on 31st October 2017.

Cross-Way Church

Cross-Way Community Church is a dynamic, Christ-Centered, Reformed church meeting on each Saturday for worship in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Our missionaries followed a call to the mission field in 2002 and started Cross-Way Church from their small apartment in Kathmandu in 2004. Cross-Way has outgrown two locations and now meets at a new campus that has space for the regularly gathering of about 130 people for worship. Cross-Way also ministers in several ways throughout the week, including prayer meetings, youth and children’s ministries, diaconal ministries, sports ministry, outreach, door-to-door evangelism,crossway1 home visits, house churches, music concerts, talent shows, seminars, and special presentations.

The vision of Cross-Way Community Church is to be “a Well of God’s Grace, from where we’ll draw to plant Christ-Centered Churches in 75 districts of Nepal.”


Visit the Cross-Way Community Church website at https://www.xwaynepal.com

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Higher Ground Ministries

Higher Ground Ministries in NepalHigher Ground is a social enterprise with a vision to provide income generation skills, job opportunities, rehabilitation, and counseling for disadvantaged and marginalized women and youth.

Visit the Higher Ground website at www.higherground.com.np or follow them on Facebook.

Through Bimala’s dream to share God’s love with the disadvantaged in Kathmandu, Higher Ground Café was born in 2006, followed by a bakery and craft business. Higher Ground now employs over thirty people and provides employees with dignity and income for their families. These enterprises especially seek to provide opportunities for ‘at-risk’ women and youth, many of whom are economically marginalized and turn to sex-trafficking in order to support their families. Employees develop their spiritual, social and financial wisdom, in addition to learning the concrete skills of baking, coffee-making, jewelry designing, sewing, and more.

In 2010, a non-profit and non-governmental organization called Higher Ground Community Development Nepal (HGCDN) was established.