African Pastors’ Conferences exists to glorify God through Jesus Christ in enabling Pastors to lead Christ-exalting Biblical churches as Christ-like servant leaders through the faithful ministry of God’s word in preaching and leading Bible-studies.
APC provides training for Pastors in the form of one to two day conferences. Most of these Pastors are unable to attend seminary or undergo any formal training owing to their being engaged in full-time employment in addition to their pastoring duties. It is estimated that there circa 2 million pastors on the African continent, but less than 10% have any form of sound formal training.
The primary speakers at APCs are, themselves, African Pastors, often from Zambia and Kenya. This is to ensure that the delegates understand that what APC is teaching is the Christian understanding of the Bible, not just a Western understanding.
APC holds to the 1689 (London) Baptist Confession of Faith with Spurgeon's Catechism as a companion teaching document, as a true interpretation of its religious convictions based upon the Scriptures. However, it does not regard that Confession or Catechism as complete or infallible nor does APC by holding to the Confession or Catechism intend to add anything to or subtract anything from the revealed word of God in the Scriptures.