Kenya Highlands Evangelical University
Kenya Highlands Evangelical University, originally Kenya Highlands Bible College, was started in 1953 by WGM missionaries Gerald and Bunny Fish. It was chartered through the Commission for Higher Education and became Kenya Highlands Evangelical University on March 23, 2011. The school, which began holding classes in 1955, seeks to advance the kingdom of God and serve society by providing a holistic education that is guided by Christian values. KHEU is located in Kericho, Kenya and administers to approximately 180 students each year.
KHEU offers five bachelor programs: theology, Christian education, business management, counseling, and education. They also offer an advanced diploma in Christian ministries, a diploma in computer science, a diploma in business management, and a certificate in computer applications.
The environment at KHEU is designed to enable student learning through up-to-date teaching and learning resources, a well-equipped library, qualified and committed lecturers, and diverse cultural and vocational opportunities to engage the knowledge and skills students have acquired in order to serve the church and society.
KHEU is focused on giving students a holistic experience through outreach ministries, athletics, clubs, student government, and events. Student spiritual life is nurtured through chapel, worship services, evening prayers, small groups, and spiritual emphasis week.
Following graduation, many students enter into Christian ministry. Missionary graduates of KHEU are currently ministering in Kenya to remote people groups such as the Maasai, Pokot, and Turkana.
Facilities
KHEU has three main campuses: the main campus, Kericho town campus, and Kipkelion campus. The main campus consists of four residence halls; three married student houses; the Tuition Block, a two-story complex that houses administrative offices, faculty offices, a textbook room, lecture rooms, typing and computer labs, the 15,000-volume library, the chapel, the prayer tower, a reception room, and four lecture rooms; the dining hall; the music hall; and a few student support buildings. In addition, KHEU is in the planning stages for the construction of more housing for women, married students, and faculty.
Affiliation and Management
Teachers at KHEU include WGM missionaries and Kenyan nationals. College staff and faculty work together under the management of a university council consisting of sixteen members from the Africa Gospel Church, World Gospel Mission, the university, and the community.
The daily administration of the university is conducted under the leadership of the chancellor, vice-chancellor and the management board of the general faculty assembly, appointed by the university council.
Get Involved
For more information on how you can become a faculty member at Kenya Highlands Evangelical University as a volunteer or missionary, contact us at recruiting@wgm.org.
For financial donations to support WGM’s work at KHEU, checks should be made payable to World Gospel Mission and sent to the following address with an attached note stating your designation:
World Gospel Mission
P.O. Box 948
Marion, IN 46952-0948
Phone: 765.664.7331
E-mail: wgm@wgm.org
Prayer Requests
Pray that the Lord will touch the hearts of qualified personnel and faithful givers so the vital ministries at Kenya Highlands Evangelical University can continue for years to come. Training pastors, church leaders, and missionaries for Africa is a wonderful privilege!
Please keep the following needs in your thoughts and prayers:
1. That the Lord will provide more missionary faculty members to serve at KHEU.
2. For the financial success of the Faculty Endowment Fund, which is used to attract and retain qualified Kenyan teachers and administrators.
3. For financial gifts to be designated to the Student Scholarship Fund, which helps struggling students pay for their college fees. While the average Kenyan earns only $45 per month, a year’s tuition at KHEU is a little more than $1,000. Nearly all of the students who attend KHEU each year rely on sponsors to help pay for their education.
4. For the Lord’s guidance on the many construction projects being planned at KHEU. Qualified lecturers have had to be turned away because of inadequate faculty housing. Married student housing and a new women’s dorm are already in the planning stages. KHEU is also in the planning stages to build a new chapel.
5. For intentional discipling and mentoring of all students. With the Bible college becoming a university on March 23, 2011, and because of the addition of many liberal arts subjects, promoting spiritual formation both within and outside the classroom will be critical.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Kaboson Pastors Training School ministry update
Kaboson Pastors Training College in Kenya
World Gospel Mission and Africa Gospel Church joined forces in 1993 to open Kaboson Pastors Training College in Chebalungu district in southwest Kenya. The college was opened to meet the vital need of providing the national pastors with the formal education and theological training they were lacking. Many AGC pastors were untrained and unable to attend Kenya Highlands Evangelical University (Kericho) because of expense, distance, or family responsibilities or because they did not meet admission requirements.
The training program at Kaboson was designed to emphasize the practical skills every pastor needs for effective ministry: a good grasp of Bible knowledge and doctrine, the ability to speak and preach well, the capacity to lead people to Christ and disciple them, and the training to guide a church forward.
Programs
KPTC students receive different awards depending on their area of study, entry qualifications, and GPA. Awards include:
• Higher diploma in pastoral ministries
• Diploma in pastoral ministries
• Diploma in counseling psychology
• Diploma in Christian leadership
• Upgraded diploma in pastoral ministries
• Certificate of pastoral training
Diploma students take three and a quarter years to graduate while certificate students take two and a quarter years. Research is being done to offer a certificate in micro computer applications as soon as enough equipment and trained personnel become available.
The upgrade program was started to better equip certificate graduates for ministry. Graduates come in for one more year and upon graduation earn the upgraded diploma in pastoral ministries.
Kaboson also offers a practicum ministry and mentoring program. This three-month term is devoted to practical training in churches or other Christian ministries. During the regular college term, students are sent out to local churches, primary schools, and secondary schools where they put into practice what they learn in class and bring people to Christ. Each student’s practicum is supervised by two trained field mentors and a faculty mentor. Students are placed into small groups under the faculty mentors. These groups provide the students with a safe place to grow spiritually and personal counseling when necessary.
Students
KPTC currently accepts men and women who have finished high school and have been sent by their local churches. Candidates with a primary level of education may be accepted from mission fields and newly established areas.
The majority of a student’s expenses for tuition and room and board are raised by the sending church, district, and family. Students may also receive scholarships from Africa Gospel Church, WGM, or Immanuel General Mission (an indigenous denomination in Japan). Currently, 76 students are enrolled at KPTC: 49 in pastoral programs, 10 in counseling programs, and 17 in the upgrade program.
After graduation, more than 90 percent of Kaboson graduates go into full-time ministry. Currently, eight of the AGC areas are led by KPTC graduates while several other graduates serve as district leaders. There are also graduates serving as missionaries in South Sudan and Tanzania. These graduates are playing significant roles in increasing the number of people coming to Christ in rural and urban Kenya and in the establishment of many new churches. As churches see the results of having trained pastors, they are sending more and more students to KPTC.
Lecturers
Rev. Dr. Stephen Ng’enoh, a graduate of Kenya Highlands Evangelical University and the former business manager at Tenwek Hospital, leads the college. Most Kaboson lecturers are from Africa, and currently five Kenyans and a missionary couple are among the resident lecturers. Missionaries from WGM and IGM serve at different times, and visiting lecturers who serve in full-time Christian ministry in different places are also invited to the college. A staff development program has been started so KPTC staff can advance their spiritual, social, academic, and ministry skills.
Facilities
Current facilities at Kaboson include staff houses; two dormitories; a kitchen and dining hall, which also serves as the chapel; and a multipurpose building with administrative offices and classrooms. The steadily growing library is contained in a room while the college looks forward to constructing a building for the library.
While KPTC has adequate dormitory, housing, and classroom space for 80 students, WGM hopes to enlarge the facilities to allow more students to attend. In 2002, Men With Vision’s annual project raised funds for the construction of urgently needed staff housing. The housing was completed and dedicated in 2003, and now there are four staff houses on campus. Kaboson also envisions the construction of another staff duplex to house the rest of the seven trained faculty members.
With the help of WGM, IGM, AGC, and other ministry partners, a dormitory that can accommodate 60 students was completed in 2011 and now houses male students. The former men’s dorms are being upgraded to accommodate the women students. As KPTC grows, other dormitories will be needed.
Kaboson is supported through donations from churches and a monthly grant from WGM. Is the Lord calling you to join this ministry through a special gift? Specific needs at the college include:
• Student scholarships: Most students come from poorer areas and homes in Kenya. Student fees at Kaboson are approximately $550 per year.
• Building maintenance: The college needs to upgrade dorms and repair buildings at a cost of roughly $4,000.
• Cooking alternatives: Kaboson needs $2,000 to purchase new solar cooking pots to reduce the school’s use of firewood and electricity. Electricity first became available at KPTC in 2007. Prior to this, the college used lanterns and pressure lamps in the dorms and the faculty homes.
Make checks payable to World Gospel Mission and write Kaboson Pastors Training College on the memo line. Send donations to:
World Gospel Mission
P.O. Box 948
Marion, IN 46952-0948
World Gospel Mission and Africa Gospel Church joined forces in 1993 to open Kaboson Pastors Training College in Chebalungu district in southwest Kenya. The college was opened to meet the vital need of providing the national pastors with the formal education and theological training they were lacking. Many AGC pastors were untrained and unable to attend Kenya Highlands Evangelical University (Kericho) because of expense, distance, or family responsibilities or because they did not meet admission requirements.
The training program at Kaboson was designed to emphasize the practical skills every pastor needs for effective ministry: a good grasp of Bible knowledge and doctrine, the ability to speak and preach well, the capacity to lead people to Christ and disciple them, and the training to guide a church forward.
Programs
KPTC students receive different awards depending on their area of study, entry qualifications, and GPA. Awards include:
• Higher diploma in pastoral ministries
• Diploma in pastoral ministries
• Diploma in counseling psychology
• Diploma in Christian leadership
• Upgraded diploma in pastoral ministries
• Certificate of pastoral training
Diploma students take three and a quarter years to graduate while certificate students take two and a quarter years. Research is being done to offer a certificate in micro computer applications as soon as enough equipment and trained personnel become available.
The upgrade program was started to better equip certificate graduates for ministry. Graduates come in for one more year and upon graduation earn the upgraded diploma in pastoral ministries.
Kaboson also offers a practicum ministry and mentoring program. This three-month term is devoted to practical training in churches or other Christian ministries. During the regular college term, students are sent out to local churches, primary schools, and secondary schools where they put into practice what they learn in class and bring people to Christ. Each student’s practicum is supervised by two trained field mentors and a faculty mentor. Students are placed into small groups under the faculty mentors. These groups provide the students with a safe place to grow spiritually and personal counseling when necessary.
Students
KPTC currently accepts men and women who have finished high school and have been sent by their local churches. Candidates with a primary level of education may be accepted from mission fields and newly established areas.
The majority of a student’s expenses for tuition and room and board are raised by the sending church, district, and family. Students may also receive scholarships from Africa Gospel Church, WGM, or Immanuel General Mission (an indigenous denomination in Japan). Currently, 76 students are enrolled at KPTC: 49 in pastoral programs, 10 in counseling programs, and 17 in the upgrade program.
After graduation, more than 90 percent of Kaboson graduates go into full-time ministry. Currently, eight of the AGC areas are led by KPTC graduates while several other graduates serve as district leaders. There are also graduates serving as missionaries in South Sudan and Tanzania. These graduates are playing significant roles in increasing the number of people coming to Christ in rural and urban Kenya and in the establishment of many new churches. As churches see the results of having trained pastors, they are sending more and more students to KPTC.
Lecturers
Rev. Dr. Stephen Ng’enoh, a graduate of Kenya Highlands Evangelical University and the former business manager at Tenwek Hospital, leads the college. Most Kaboson lecturers are from Africa, and currently five Kenyans and a missionary couple are among the resident lecturers. Missionaries from WGM and IGM serve at different times, and visiting lecturers who serve in full-time Christian ministry in different places are also invited to the college. A staff development program has been started so KPTC staff can advance their spiritual, social, academic, and ministry skills.
Facilities
Current facilities at Kaboson include staff houses; two dormitories; a kitchen and dining hall, which also serves as the chapel; and a multipurpose building with administrative offices and classrooms. The steadily growing library is contained in a room while the college looks forward to constructing a building for the library.
While KPTC has adequate dormitory, housing, and classroom space for 80 students, WGM hopes to enlarge the facilities to allow more students to attend. In 2002, Men With Vision’s annual project raised funds for the construction of urgently needed staff housing. The housing was completed and dedicated in 2003, and now there are four staff houses on campus. Kaboson also envisions the construction of another staff duplex to house the rest of the seven trained faculty members.
With the help of WGM, IGM, AGC, and other ministry partners, a dormitory that can accommodate 60 students was completed in 2011 and now houses male students. The former men’s dorms are being upgraded to accommodate the women students. As KPTC grows, other dormitories will be needed.
Kaboson is supported through donations from churches and a monthly grant from WGM. Is the Lord calling you to join this ministry through a special gift? Specific needs at the college include:
• Student scholarships: Most students come from poorer areas and homes in Kenya. Student fees at Kaboson are approximately $550 per year.
• Building maintenance: The college needs to upgrade dorms and repair buildings at a cost of roughly $4,000.
• Cooking alternatives: Kaboson needs $2,000 to purchase new solar cooking pots to reduce the school’s use of firewood and electricity. Electricity first became available at KPTC in 2007. Prior to this, the college used lanterns and pressure lamps in the dorms and the faculty homes.
Make checks payable to World Gospel Mission and write Kaboson Pastors Training College on the memo line. Send donations to:
World Gospel Mission
P.O. Box 948
Marion, IN 46952-0948
Taylor Community Center ministry update
Taylor Community Center on the Texas/Mexico Border
Ministry Info
Taylor Community Center is a ministry of World Gospel Mission in McAllen, Texas. It is a multi-use facility that consists of an indoor gymnasium, a weight room, a kitchen, a cafeteria, a sewing room, locker rooms with showers, a chapel, and classrooms. Eventually, a shop will be added. TCC is currently finishing a soccer field less than a block away to be used for evangelism through soccer ministry. TCC is connected to Taylor Christian School, which uses the facility during the academic school year. The facility offers a safe haven for children and youth to hear the gospel as they participate in after-school and summer activities. Workers at the center believe that if children and youth are reached, there is a greater likelihood of reaching the entire family for Christ, which is the ultimate goal.
While WGM missionaries have been ministering to the people of McAllen, Texas, and Mexico since 1946, the idea for a community center was first introduced in the 1980s. During the Mexico Field planning meeting in 2000, the field staff committed to building this center.
The center’s official groundbreaking ceremony was held in March 2001 with construction on the facility beginning in November 2001. Although construction on the center continues in different phases, at this point the gym, chapel, cafeteria, kitchen, locker rooms and bathrooms on the ground floor, and several classrooms upstairs are useable. Quite a bit of room upstairs still needs to be developed and completed.
In addition to the primary focus of evangelizing local children and youth, TCC hopes to provide practical programs such as sports leagues, after-school programs, tutoring, English and Spanish classes, sewing and craft classes, adult Bible study classes and kid’s Bible club, as well as music, cooking, and computer classes. By meeting the needs of this primarily Hispanic community, we will be building relationships that will help us lead them to Christ and give us the opportunity to disciple them.
Impact
The evangelism of children and youth is extremely important on the Texas/Mexico border. In this area, about 60 percent of crimes are gang related, so TCC strives to take kids out of the path of gang violence and membership.
“Even though our target is the youth, our ultimate goal is to reach entire families. We estimate that within a quarter-mile radius of the center 1,000 families and approximately 3,000 children can be reached for Christ,” said Field Director Bill Allshouse.
TCC missionary Betsy Tejeda stated, “This is a brand-new ministry; the interest in the community, however, is great. We look forward to providing programs and activities that will reach the community for Christ.”
Act
The possibilities for evangelism and discipleship through TCC are endless. However, to make these possible, many needs still need to be met. Do you have sporting equipment or other materials that you would like to donate to TCC? Are you in the area and interested in giving some of your time to this ministry? If so, contact Betsy Tejeda at betsy.tejeda@wgm.org.
Ministry Info
Taylor Community Center is a ministry of World Gospel Mission in McAllen, Texas. It is a multi-use facility that consists of an indoor gymnasium, a weight room, a kitchen, a cafeteria, a sewing room, locker rooms with showers, a chapel, and classrooms. Eventually, a shop will be added. TCC is currently finishing a soccer field less than a block away to be used for evangelism through soccer ministry. TCC is connected to Taylor Christian School, which uses the facility during the academic school year. The facility offers a safe haven for children and youth to hear the gospel as they participate in after-school and summer activities. Workers at the center believe that if children and youth are reached, there is a greater likelihood of reaching the entire family for Christ, which is the ultimate goal.
While WGM missionaries have been ministering to the people of McAllen, Texas, and Mexico since 1946, the idea for a community center was first introduced in the 1980s. During the Mexico Field planning meeting in 2000, the field staff committed to building this center.
The center’s official groundbreaking ceremony was held in March 2001 with construction on the facility beginning in November 2001. Although construction on the center continues in different phases, at this point the gym, chapel, cafeteria, kitchen, locker rooms and bathrooms on the ground floor, and several classrooms upstairs are useable. Quite a bit of room upstairs still needs to be developed and completed.
In addition to the primary focus of evangelizing local children and youth, TCC hopes to provide practical programs such as sports leagues, after-school programs, tutoring, English and Spanish classes, sewing and craft classes, adult Bible study classes and kid’s Bible club, as well as music, cooking, and computer classes. By meeting the needs of this primarily Hispanic community, we will be building relationships that will help us lead them to Christ and give us the opportunity to disciple them.
Impact
The evangelism of children and youth is extremely important on the Texas/Mexico border. In this area, about 60 percent of crimes are gang related, so TCC strives to take kids out of the path of gang violence and membership.
“Even though our target is the youth, our ultimate goal is to reach entire families. We estimate that within a quarter-mile radius of the center 1,000 families and approximately 3,000 children can be reached for Christ,” said Field Director Bill Allshouse.
TCC missionary Betsy Tejeda stated, “This is a brand-new ministry; the interest in the community, however, is great. We look forward to providing programs and activities that will reach the community for Christ.”
Act
The possibilities for evangelism and discipleship through TCC are endless. However, to make these possible, many needs still need to be met. Do you have sporting equipment or other materials that you would like to donate to TCC? Are you in the area and interested in giving some of your time to this ministry? If so, contact Betsy Tejeda at betsy.tejeda@wgm.org.
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