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 Lois Shaw, you’ve been at the school for years and have played a big role in weaving the dream that we want to hear about now. Tell us why “trailblazers” Victoria Hanne, Brenda Buchanan and Donna Chapman decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in January, in the name of Africa International University/NEGST?
By committing to this climb, these North American women, their friends and others on the team have already raised over $55,000, with much more pledged, to build the new Leah Ngini community center in the heart of our campus. The university sent them off to Mount Kilimanjaro in grand style with songs and blessings in chapel—the first of many climbers lined up to help build the center.
That’s great, Lois! Tell us more about the Leah Ngini Community Center.
The community center is to become the gateway building on campus, connecting us to community and to one another. We are known as “A school in the heart of Africa with Africa on its heart” and it is time for us to have a physical heart of our own—a hub or central gathering place for students, faculty, the community, guests and friends.
The school has needed this center for a long time. And now, as we have expanded to undergrad programs and new PhD and MA programs, more commuting students bring a greater need for the services a community center could provide. It has now become urgent that we get this gateway building built.
What would the community center do for the school?
Some needed amenities include:
• Seminar and conference rooms, as scholars and experts Read more »
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 NEGST Master of Divinity in Christian Education student Bernard Kariuki Kimani recently published a book, Success Boosters:Reflections on the life of Samson. The thesis of the book is that success in life is just not an accumulation of wealth, achievement of personal ambitions, or the attainment of personal success. Real success is having a relationship with God that changes one’s outlook in life.
Bernard’s inspiration to write this book was pegged on two grounds; first, it was sparked by the challenge to speak on the life and times of Samson in his church’s annual regional camp in 2007. As Kariuki reflected on the portion of scripture in the book of Judges that deals with Samson, he was thrilled to discover that real success goes beyond personal aggrandizement and having all that a person would desire. Second, the books Read more »
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 Mr Benson Mwinzi Waema first came to NEGST in 2006 for the extension program at the A.C.K. Language School, where he did a diploma in Christian education. He came back in September 2009 to pursue a bachelor of theology, also through the NEGST extension program at the A.C.K Language School.
Currently Mr Benson is a pastor at Africa Inland Church (A.I.C) Angaza in Kariobangi. In addition to being a pastor, he also works with a ministry called Source of Light East Africa. The vision of this ministry is to reach the people of the world through Christ-centered and time-tested materials which will result in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. Source of Light East Africa is mainly involved in outreach in schools, prisons, churches and in training disciples in the various places that they visit.
A few months ago the Source of Light came up with a campaign which was to challenge their readers to become “paper partners” with Read more »
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 This January, a team created from the members of two partner churches in Indianapolis, Grace Community Church and Faith Missionary Church, provided a week of intensive training in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, blogging and PC maintenance. The training was open to all members of the NEGST community and took place in the computer labs. The group also donated 20 laptops to NEGST.
In addition, Grace Community Church donated Ksh.100,000 in January for the acquisition of a new IT server and is in the process of providing 10 new thin clients (approximately Ksh. 160,000 more). These donations will allow NEGST to extend the computer laboratory and help us make the student “ASPEN” system more reliable and flexible.
Grace Community Church began as a new congregation launched from Read more »
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 Dr. John Evans is one of the newest members of the NEGST faculty. He began lecturing in Old Testament last month in the biblical studies department. His research interests are in Old Testament prophets, hermeneutics, Old Testament theology, and theological bibliography for the Old and New Testaments.
What is your teaching philosophy?
Long ago, I ran across a quote from the poet, Yeats. He wrote, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the igniting of a fire.”
I later discovered that Socrates had said much the same thing around 400BC. Though I seek to give to give my students the best content and as much content as I can, I am more concerned to ignite in students a passion for learning-especially God’s Word-which they will carry with them for a lifetime.
Tell us about your writing.
Along with several articles and reviews, I have written Read more »
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 Mr. Mateso Akou first came to NEGST in September 1986. He took a Masters of Divinity in theological studies in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he took a Masters in Theology, which was a combination of Biblical Studies and Theology. He was also the NEGST alumni chair from 2002 to 2004.
Mateso Akou, after graduating from NEGST, what have you been doing since then?
After NEGST, I joined the Diguna Missions in Ongata Rongai. I served in Diguna for more than fifteen years, leaving there in June 2002. I was an evangelist in Diguna, responsible for the training and equipping of staff. Other than that, I was the personnel director.
I left Diguna to go and pastor in a francophone church in Nairobi two years. Currently, I am a part time lecturer at NEGST, where Read more »
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