Brief History of TAPAC
TAPAC GLOBAL was founded in England on the 28th of January 1993. The visioner of the organization was, Archbishop Jubameeta Paul Hackman; the first Pentecostal Archbishop of England. Archbishop J.P. Hackman's rich experience in ministry and broad social network with other ministers of religion propelled the idea of TAPAC into the realms of reality.
TAPAC set up the Global Missions Bible Training Institute on the 27th of September 1994 to offer theological education, particularly to church leaders and members from the Charismatic and Pentecostal Church tradition. In 1997 TAPAC decided to take the theological education to the people at their doors. The programme is known as Theological Education by Extension. The programme brought forth St. Paul’s International Mobile Bible College, which has won the interest of many churches in West Africa.
Some Notable Projects and Achievements of TAPAC GLOBAL:
Since 1997, TAPAC has expanded its influence to various countries and continents. Provide training, assistance, and motivation to ministers and organisations worldwide. This task includes offering them recognition and a platform to share the gospel of Christ through ordinations, consecrations, and elevations, as well as granting them a ministerial licence for global recognition as responsible and accountable ministers of Christ.
In 1996 TAPAC, in collaboration with Kensington Consultation Centre in Vauxhall, London, offered professional counselling training to forty (40) Clergy from the black majority Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches in London. TAPAC raised the Funds for the total cost of the project. Kensington Consultation Centre offered the training. In the same year, the Alliance fully sponsored six-month training for Mrs Ann Sigei of the Organization of African Independence Churches (OIAC), with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, for training in AIDS awareness and care in London, England. Mansfield Centre in Plaistow, London, offered the training.
In 1995, TAPAC hosted Dr Kim Yeo from Berea Academy in Korea. In the meeting, an agreement was reached to send two people from Africa, the Caribbean Islands, and India to the Berea Academy in Korea for training. All expenses were to be borne by Berea Academy except the travelling expenses to and from Korea.
On the 27th and 28th of October 1993 TAPAC GLOBAL held its second European conference in London at Mansfield Centre, 310 Barking Road, Plaistow, London E13, to consider the problems facing African and Caribbean Christians in Europe and the home countries i.e. African and the Caribbean Islands. Delegates attended the conference from Africa and Europe.
In the meeting many problems were identified:
- Poverty in Africa and how the churches can help to alleviate it.
- Education
- Wars and ethnic cleansing
- The negative image portrayed Africa through advertisements on Western television and radios for fundraising purposes.
- A new look at Africa and the Caribbean as mission fields.
- A new look at Africa and the Caribbean as mission fields.
- Revival in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia and the need for Leadership Training.
- The relationship between African Independent Churches and Pentecostal-Charismatic churches, in Africa and elsewhere.