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‘Capacity expansion and development’ amongst established and emerging leaders in Christian communities is never a feat that anyone accomplishes within a lifetime. Evolving challenges among human communities require God’s Servants to increase in skills acquisition, expand the vital knowledge required for effective warfare operations, so as to achieve greater outcomes in spiritual ministries. These are some of the essential values that Barrington Mullings identifies in this ‘timely and provocative work’, and calls those who occupy the ranks and files of leadership within the Church of Jesus Christ to pursue, not merely as required qualifications for ordination, but as critical means for affecting substantive outcomes in biblical spiritual ministries for the glory of God.

You can purchase Capacity Expansion and Development online at AuthorHouse, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. All proceeds of the book will be donated to the NTCG Brooks’ Bar Building Project dedicatedto serving the church and wider community. For further information, visit NTCG Brooks' Bar BuildingFund or email b.mullings@schoolofministerialexcellence.com.

The pursuit of excellence in living and serving is one of the underlying passions that propels Barrington as he wades through the sea of obstacles and set-backs he has encountered since childhood. Surviving the barrage of negativities hurled at him by his father and some of his teachers, and attempted suicide due to the onset of depression, propelled him to seek solace and purpose in the Church of Jesus Christ in response to the gentle appeal he experienced by divine encounter. Serving as a credentialled Minister in Jesus’ Church with the Church of God (NTCG) for the past thirty-two, has afforded needful and necessary developmental opportunities which motivated him to become a diligent student of the Word of God and an aspiring theologian with a passion to effectively contribute to the development of other called and committed spiritual leaders.

Being able to embark on the adventure of becoming a student in Bible College on the basis of an impoverished educational foundation is nothing short of a miracle. Barrington’s success in completing a Diploma in Theology at Bethel Bible College is both a miracle and also the planting of the seed which enabled him to achieve a Bachelors with Honours in Sociology and two Masters degrees in Social Work and Theology, respectively.

In giving due diligence to the appeal of the Spirit to serve as a provocateur amongst Christian Ministers and also as a model in pursuit of spiritual excellence in living and serving, Capacity Expansion and Development came into being. At its heart lies the challenge of sensitively highlighting the stagnation of a wide cross section of Ministers of God and the marked ineffectiveness with which much of the services they deliver in the name of the Church is characterised.

In the book ‘Capacity Expansion and Development’, Barrington not only highlights this reality of widespread stagnation, but he also passionately challenges the posture of spiritual laziness and complacency, which debilitates the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the spiritual leader and ultimately of the church. Barrington uses the platform of the book to reveal the scriptural basis for the expansion and development of our unique, God-given potential. Additionally, he offers insightful frameworks for personal growth assessments, as well as, providing biblical examples of lives which were submitted to this process and the resulting effectiveness of their respective ministry assignments.