MISSION AND VALUE STATEMENT
Mission
GILD aims to assist members by:
a. Facilitating further education for the development of leadership in the Church;
b. Creation of an online distance-learning database accessible to all participating members;
c. Providing a complete database of academic literature, lectures and necessary resources elevant to GILD;
d. Upgrading of academic standards and institutional capacity-building;
e. Developing and enhancing research within and among participating members;
f. Serving as a platform for the maintenance of an interconnected association of theological institutions;
g. Promotion of theological education;
h. Development of skills for Christian presence in the public sphere.
Values
GILD aims to:
a. Demonstrate unity and koinonia in Christ;
b. Declare the praises of God who called us out of the darkness into His wonderful light and proclaim this good news to all;
c. Practice and promote love and forgiveness, justice and peace;
d. Serve the needs of the world by reaching out to all who suffer;
e. Urging those in authority to use the power given to them to the honour and glory of god and to the benefit of those entrusted to their care;
f. Intercede for all humankind and the whole of creation;
g. Accept new Christians for who they are and journey together with them from the place where they are at;
h. Emphasising the experience of suffering and people’s expressions of faith within their local contexts.