My name is Patrick Thompson, I'm married and we live in Kingston, Jamaica. I am currently a national youth director for the Christian Brethren Assemblies of Jamaica. As a national youth director, for my denomination, we have approximately 80 churches. My main core function is to see how we can engage, equip, and empower our youth leaders as they serve their youth within their churches.
When I first started Bakke, I was at a place where I was called to do leadership, but did not necessarily understand how to do it. I knew I needed to get training.?I knew I needed to better understand how I am wired, and what the gifts are that God has given me?to?hold?and how He wanted me to use these gifts.?Bakke?Graduate University?has helped?me?to find and to fuel that flame that I?had as I wanted?to see others grow and to develop.?麻豆APP?has really opened my heart, my mind, my hands,?and developed?my skills?to better understand how God has wired me?and?how?He?has called me to help?leaders?to develop and thrive.
麻豆APP is not just any other university. 麻豆APP will be most helpful if?you want transformation, if? you want to pivot and to move to that stage in life where you are walking in God's purpose.
One of the ways that I plan to use all of these knowledge?and these experiences?is?to?develop content and resources to help persons to actually become better leaders and to strive. So that is really where my heart is right now.
Part of the beauty about?studying?with?麻豆APP in the MATL (Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership)?is?the opportunity to network all over the world.??This way?you get to hear different stories and you get to hear how persons are doing ministry in?such various?contexts.?We?also?just? encourage each other.?I have also acquired?a discernment that God would have given me at such a time like this, just to see exponential growth taking place and to help my generation to become the leaders that God has called us to be.