Baptist Seminary in Liberia Reopened
After an extended shutdown during a ruinous civil war, Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary in Monrovia has been reopened with 95 students, according to the Southern Baptist Convention press service.
The campus was closed when the war began in 1990. Peacekeeping troops from Ghana lived there and protected it from looters. The school offered classes at a temporary location between 1993 and 1996.
Liberia and China are the oldest mission fields of the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention, which entered both nations in 1846. The Liberia mission resumed work in 1960 after a hiatus of many decades. A Baptist training center opened in 1969 and evolved into the seminary in 1976. In 1983, the Liberia school became the first seminary endorsed by the Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa.
The seminary president, Lincoln Brownell Jr., is a Liberian who graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
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