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April 7, 2003





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A STUDENT at the Nyeri Baptist Academy in Kenya studies his Bible on the academy grounds.

Wayland partnership in Kenya bears fruit
___PLAINVIEW--Wayland Baptist University has approved the first candidates for graduation from its partnership with the Kenya Baptist Theological College.
___Sixteen students will receive the associate of applied science degree July 19 in the first Wayland graduation ceremony held in Kenya.
___The students began their academic foundation studies with Wayland in 2000, after the university began sending faculty to teach in Kenya.
___"This is really a landmark decision for us," said Vaughn Ross, professor of biological sciences and organizer of the Kenya partnership.
___Currently, Wayland sends two teams of faculty members--usually two professors at a time--to Kenya twice a year to offer a four-week class in the academic foundations. The students meet all day each day and earn credit for two courses over that period.
___In Ross' eyes, the formalization of the partnership means even more Kenyan students can be equipped to spread the gospel to their own country. Most of the students at Kenya Baptist Theological College already are ministers, and many have other careers or vocations that allow them to get jobs in areas of the country where the gospel has not been preached.
___"Through Wayland, Texas Baptists are providing human resources and financial resources for this project," he noted. "To me, that's what the university seal says to do: 'Go ye into all the world.'"
___Ross and his wife served 19 years as missionaries in Kenya, and it was on a return trip in 1997 that he began to see the possibilities for such an educational partnership.
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