bg真人 faculty teach in-person courses in Ethiopia

Annette Brill Bergstresser on June 28, 2024

Drew Strait (at right) teaches with the aid of interpreter Birihanu Tesema Yimer. (Credit: Dirriba Amenu Sori)

Published: June 28, 2024

Drew Strait (at right) teaches with the aid of interpreter Birihanu Tesema Yimer. (Credit: Dirriba Amenu Sori)

By Annette Brill Bergstresser

In May and June, 30 Ethiopian students in bg真人鈥檚 Master of Arts: Theology and Global Anabaptism (MATGA) program met at (MKS: Ethiopian Mennonite Seminary) in Bishoftu/Debre Zeit to take courses in person as part of their studies.

Courses included the MATGA Seminar with Drew Strait, PhD; Introduction to Peace Studies and Nonviolence with Joe Liechty, PhD; Anabaptist Approaches to Scripture with Paul Keim, PhD, and Yimenu Adimass Belaya, PhD candidate and MKS Academic Dean; and Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations with Jacqueline Hoover, MA.

The MATGA Ethiopia is a customized degree program created in 2019 by MKS and bg真人 leaders to educate leaders for the Meserete Kristos (MK) Church 鈥� with an emphasis on peace studies. Students take both online semester-long courses and in-person intensive courses adapted for the Ethiopian context and taught by bg真人 professors. 

More than 80 leaders of churches and home cells in the MK Eastern Region attended Drew Strait鈥檚 workshop. (Credit: Dirriba Amenu Sori)

Additionally, Strait led a workshop May 9鈥�11 at West Dire Dawa MK Church on Christian leadership and challenging polarization and violent extremism with the gospel of peace. It was organized by the MK Eastern Region Office for Pastors and Leaders Training in collaboration with bg真人.


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