The ministry & mission of the Methodist Church in India (MCI) requires Pastors & Deaconesses for its varied ministries ranging from preacher to Christian educators, evangelists, counselors, care-givers, children, elderly people, and youth directors. Since 1922, Leonard Theological College is the only Methodist theological college where almost (80%) of the pastors and deaconesses for MCI are sent to be trained through their Board of Ministry & Regional Deaconess Conferences. When LTC is falling on the bad times such as now, one saying is taking rounds- “No LTC means No MCI”. LTC is the sole training ground where the pastors and deaconesses of MCI are trained with theological education and ministerial formation. So LTC provides that crucial need of the Methodist Church in India at large to prepare ministers for the ministries of the Church in both rural as well as urban settings. For the pulpit, Christian education, evangelism, administration, and the care/ counseling of the youth, children and elderly people. LTC is providing to the Methodist Church and several other churches in India training facilities. For its ministers who come from their native communities, to get trained, transformed and return back to their communities. To provide a leadership of empowering to those socially marginal and economically weaker sections of the society. The ministry of Leonard is fulfilling a crucial need of the Indian society to reach out to the needy and suffering communities to uplift them.