When rummaging through my old papers I came across this description of Scott Theological College where Flo and I served in Kenya. The big day was the Award-of-Charter Ceremony.
“For me the highlight of the ceremony was the speech read by the Chairman of the Commission for Higher Education, Dr. Davy Koech. I had expected a formal, official recognition that Scott had met the standards of accreditation and was therefore being granted a charter. But he much most sounded as though he was a great supporter and defender of Scott. With the Vice Chancellors (Presidents) of three public universities and two private universities present, he upheld Scott as a model to follow. He extolled the Field Education and Learning Contracts utilized at Scott. He lauded the research sponsored by Scott, including the fifteen year publication of the Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology. He lamented that no African university in Kenya had such a commendable record. He acknowledged that by external appearances and student enrollment Scott did not appear like a university. But he declared that in fact the quality of education was golden at Scott. “All that glitters is not gold,” he said, referring to the large and well endowed universities. He observed that Scott has become the fourth private institution to be chartered and the first evangelical theological college to be chartered. He said that Scott sets the standard and model for other theological colleges to follow. Though Scott has decided to retain the name, Scott Theological Colelge, it is a recognized level institution, chartered under the universities act and offering specialized training in theologifal studies.
What a privilege we had to serve in a quality school like this.
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