Invitation into Contemporary Biblical Ministries

This is your invitation to work with a person who has gained first-hand insights, a broad range of competencies, and a growing authority in community development ministry-initiatives. Metropolitan Henry Paul Kontor and his team are now taking forward a stream of community development promotions, including partnership-building and collaborations. He will also be providing foresight and strategies for negotiation-based community development practice for smaller communities who have not built up their competitive edge. You are invited to become one of the 500 covenant-partners of his outreach work

Towards Meaningful Achievements with Church Partners

Metropolitan Henry Paul commits himself to encourage five landmarks in urban community ministry, so that he could focus his wider work with covenanted Church partners. The five landmarks are:

a. Ensuring that the ministry context is informed and understood from a historic act of God's saving grace, evidenced by a living and growing faith (in that saving grace) and manifest in a strong Church life in one or two communities.

b. Ensuring that proper boundaries are set out for purposes of constructing well meaning partnerships that would produce
an effective use of the communal life that is given/graced by God
a richer attainment in social care or social/urban regeneration, and
a step-by-step stability in relationship building.

c. Ensuring that the inevitable transitions in the leadership levels are connected to raising the mid-level leaderships' competencies and further potential.

d. Ensuring that the community being engaged is interactive, entrepreneurial and open to higher aspirations, including self-finance and negotiation skills.

e. Ensuring that any mentoring being offered is adequate for personal transformation, social renewal involvement, and the explicit presentation of one's ministry foundation, cause, or agenda; also that the aspiration in the mentoring is held to a particular vision that has been well expounded.

Some of his Involvements in the UK and also Internationally

In 1990-1991, he served as the development worker for Zebra Project - a black and white partnership for racial justice based in East London. He moved on to initiate a ground-level community development training programme, which he has taken forward into post-graduate training partnership with one of university in the UK and another university in Ghana.

He is trusting God to develop an infrastructure with these universities' partnership to encourage a series of significant North-South Interactions that prepare other development catalysts to build and share medium-level international twinning activities.

In 2003, he took time to observe urban ministry patters in two countries in Asia and two countries in Africa, besides his on-going outreach work in UK and mainland Europe.

Some of his Professional Build-Up & Tests

Between 1995 and 2000, he completed a post-graduate Diploma in Community Development with a university in the UK as a first step.

He then proceeded to reflect his community development practice in some further post-graduate sessions, including sessions on an MPhil in Critical Management course at a university in the UK and some relevant sessions of a Doctor of Ministry course at a Seminary in the US.

By these he has built a reflective balance between his community development passion and a professional patience with the changing times. It may however be noted that he engaged all of these with very limited financial resources that required heavy personal sacrifices all throughout.

Since the autumn of 2001, he has led the formation and growth of the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain - a platform that is serving to re-establish the apostolicity the Church in our fast-changing environment, particularly supporting the re-envisioning of long-standing community development activities.

His is currently the Chair for the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain and also a Metropolitan Bishop in the Old Calendar of the Greek Orthodox Church.

His Availability & Priorities For Now

For the time being, he would welcome limited consultancy work. He would also welcome limited invitations to public or inter-church events that are outside of the ministry activities of the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain. He may consider specific interactions like seminars, preaching, teaching or leading a workshop. At the ground level, he is proving innovative mentoring schemes that match key leaders to Negotiation-Based Community Development (NBCD) activities.

Contact Details

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