Since 2016, Rebuilding Walls has been providing financial support to pastors studying in bible schools but having a hard time covering their education and living expenses. This project applies not only to those who have received the call from God to go to bible school but have not been able to start their training due to a lack of financial means, but also those who are already in bible school but struggling to finish their program for the same reason.
The selected students come from bible schools that are part of an established network of partners. Our goal is to increase this network by favoring the bible schools located in regions with high evangelization potential but low resources. The North and East of Burkina Faso are examples of these regions.
The project is carried out in synergy with the church building project to enable the target areas to have both new places of worship and pastors.
Students wishing to obtain a pastoral scholarship should send a detailed application containing the following information to the local branch of Rebuilding Walls:
From 2016 to 2018 Rebuilding Walls awarded nineteen scholarships to students from bible schools in Bilanga (Eastern Burkina Faso) and Djibo (Northern Burkina Faso) worth more than one million four hundred thousand CFA francs (about two thousand eight hundred US dollars). Many of these students have successfully completed their studies and integrated churches in their communities as pastors. Some became pastors in churches that we helped build while they were students!
In addition to helping students, we have also funded the participation of pastors in development programs. Each year, we passionately support the training of new laborers for the harvest.
Rebuilding Walls helps build churches in places where the Christian presence is in its infancy. We also provide support in the repair or expansion of places of worship.
In recent years, our focus has been on the traditionally animist regions of Northern and Eastern Burkina Faso, where many people today are opening to the message of the gospel. Our financial contribution enables these regions to set up churches to strengthen these new believers. We mainly support the construction of churches in the infant stage, as the costs do not exceed five hundred thousand CFA francs (about one thousand US dollars). Thanks to the help of the Christians living in these villages, the costs of building the churches are kept low. Many pastoral scholarship recipients have been able to join these Rebuilding Walls-supported churches as pastors.
In assessing potential beneficiaries, pastors’ integrity, the need for help and the potential impact of this help are considered.
To be considered as a potential beneficiary of the church building grant, each applicant must send an application containing the following information to the local branch of Rebuilding Walls:
Since its inception, Rebuilding Walls has helped build more than seven churches (as of 2018) for more than three million five hundred CFA francs (about seven thousand US dollars). These churches have grown phenomenally, spawning other sister churches. Nearly a thousand believers gather in these churches.
The academic excellence awards project, which ran from 2012 to 2016, was designed to encourage excellence among evangelical Christian students. It particularly applied to students who had outstanding results in the national exams of the CEP (Certificat d’Études Primaires), BEPC (Brevet d’Études du Premier Cycle), and BAC (Baccalauréat d’enseignement du second cycle). The main goal of this project was to stimulate the spirit of competitiveness and excellence.
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a few hands crossed to sleep! And poverty will stumble upon you, like a ranger, and famine, like a man with weapons." Proverbs 24: 33-34).
To be eligible, candidates for the project had to meet the following conditions:
Eligible candidates then had to send an application containing the following information to the local branch of Rebuilding Walls:
Through this project, Rebuilding Walls awarded forty-four merit scholarships worth more than five million CFA francs (about ten thousand US dollars). This project was realized from 2012 to 2016.