African Pastoral Care Grant| Ministry Partner Grant

Danny Carroll Ministries

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When you donate to the African Pastoral Care Grant, you help provide biblical training, pastoral care, and spiritual encouragement to hundreds of pastors serving on the front lines of ministry across East Africa. Your gift empowers trusted ministry leaders, Pastor Dan Carroll and Bishop Francis Kamau, to strengthen pastors who are faithfully shepherding their communities—often with little formal training, limited resources, and no ongoing spiritual support. Through your generosity, these leaders are equipped to disciple believers, strengthen churches, and raise up the next generation of Christ-followers across the region.

This grant meets the following criteria outlined in the Alabaster Foundation Criteria for Ministry Partnership:

  • Pastor Dan Carroll has actively worked to expand the Kingdom of God for over 35 years through pastoral service, Christian education, missions, humanitarian aid, economic development, and leadership development.

  • He has dedicated his life to full-time ministry both in Southern California and across nations around the world.

Our goal is to raise $150,000 to cover the cost of travel, accommodations, meals, materials, and meeting facilities for 200–300 local pastors to receive spiritual care, emotional care and ministry equipping in three nations:

  • $50,000 – Kenya

  • $50,000 – Uganda

  • $50,000 – Tanzania

FAITH LEADERS FACE MANY CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES

About 90% of pastors in East Africa have little or no formal ministry training.

This is merely one of many significant practical and ministry-related challenges that often go unseen. Many pastors serve with limited financial support and unstable income, making it difficult to care for their families or invest in their ministry. Access to formal theological training and ministry resources is often limited, leaving pastors to lead without consistent grounding or ongoing development. Geographic distance and lack of transportation create major travel and logistical barriers, with some pastors traveling for hours—often on foot or by bicycle—just to attend a training or gathering. Combined with the emotional weight of shepherding their communities, these challenges frequently lead to burnout and isolation, as few pastors have access to meaningful support or encouragement.

Across East Africa, thousands of pastors serve faithfully in challenging environments. Many are responsible for growing congregations and communities while carrying deep spiritual and emotional burdens alone. Opportunities for encouragement, discipleship, and leadership development are rare—yet the need is urgent.

Through the African Pastoral Care Grant, Pastor Dan Carroll and Bishop Francis Kamau will work to provide three-day pastoral care and training gatherings in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya throughout 2026. Each gathering will bring together 200–300 local pastors for biblical teaching, leadership development, prayer, and personal encouragement.

The impact is both immediate and long-term:

  • Pastors receive biblical and ministry training they otherwise could not access

  • Leaders experience renewal, encouragement, and spiritual care

  • Churches are strengthened through discipleship and healthy leadership

  • Communities are impacted as equipped pastors shepherd believers with wisdom and clarity

The cost to support one pastor for three days of training—covering food and lodging—is approximately $50. Each trip requires $50,000 to fully support these gatherings, ensuring that no pastor is excluded due to financial limitations.

This investment goes beyond a single event—it helps build resilient churches, deepen discipleship, and anchor faith in regions where competing ideologies are actively vying for influence. When pastors are equipped and cared for, the ripple effect touches families, churches, and entire communities.

Project Impact

How to Pray.

We invite you to partner with us in prayer for this vital work

  • Pray for pastors attending these gatherings—that they would be strengthened, encouraged, and renewed

  • Pray for spiritual depth and discipleship, that churches would be firmly rooted in biblical truth

  • Pray for Pastor Dan and Bishop Kamau, for wisdom, health, and protection as they lead and serve

  • Pray for lasting fruit, that trained pastors would raise up strong leaders within their communities

  • Pray for God’s provision, that every gathering would be fully funded and every pastor welcomed

Meet Pastor Dan & Gale Carroll

Pastor Dan Carroll is the founding pastor of Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, California—a church that began as a small men’s Bible study and has grown into a thriving ministry touching neighborhoods and nations. With more than three decades of pastoral leadership and global ministry experience, Pastor Dan carries a deep calling to invest in the next generation of spiritual leaders.

After 35 years of faithful service at Water of Life, Pastor Dan has stepped into a new season of ministry focused on training, encouraging, and caring for pastors across Africa. His heart is to ensure that those who are leading others are not doing so alone, but are spiritually strengthened, biblically grounded, and supported.

Together with his wife Gale, Pastor Dan continues to invest personally in this mission—serving not for personal support, but out of obedience to God’s call to build up pastors who will shape generations to come.

Meet Bishop Francis Kamau

Bishop Francis Kamau is a long-time ministry partner and trusted leader with more than 18 years of relationship with Water of Life. A graduate of Fuller Seminary, Bishop Kamau is passionate about church planting, leadership development, and pastoral care across Africa.

He serves as:

  • Pastor of Cornerstone Faith Assembly Church in Nairobi

  • World Zone Leader for East and South Africa

  • A leader with Dynamic Church Planting International, coordinating training for thousands of pastors throughout the region

Bishop Kamau is overseeing the on-the-ground planning and coordination of these pastoral training gatherings. His vision is to see pastors become high-impact disciples of Christ—living out the Gospel and multiplying Kingdom-minded leaders across Africa.