Lomé, Togo

École Supérieure Baptiste de Théologie

In Lomé (Togo), TLI partners with the École Supérieure Baptiste de Théologie de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ESBTAO). This African-led seminary is the denominational school for Baptist churches throughout Francophone Western Africa. ESBTAO is a formal theological site which confers Licence Degrees (the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelors Degree) and is beginning a Masters Degree program. The approximately fifty students enrolled at ESBTAO are sent by churches in Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, and other nearby countries. ESBTAO trains their students for a variety of roles including pastoral ministry, missionary service, teaching in Bible Institutes, and assisting Bible translation projects throughout Western Africa.

TLI is seeking instructors with a passion to serve the churches of West Africa through training indigenous leaders. Instructors must develop their own courses, delivered in a two-week modular format, in accordance with ESBTAO's academic catalogue.

Director Sylvain Allaboe and his staff are working hard on their long-term vision to build an entirely African faculty capable of fulfilling all their teaching needs. They are identifying and then assisting gifted students to complete Masters and Doctoral degrees so they can return to teach at ESBTAO. This vision is well underway, but will take at least a decade before it comes to full fruition. By sending capable and godly instructors to teach six courses annually through three short-term trips, TLI is collaborating with ESBTAO to help them fulfill their short and long-term goals.

DATES

November 4-18, 2023

LOCATION

École Supérieure Baptiste de Théologie
Lomé, Togo

CURRICULUM

Hermeneutics History - INSTRUCTOR NEEDED
Sapiential (Wisdom) Literature - INSTRUCTOR NEEDED

You know when go to study theology, you're filled with all kinds ... you're given all kinds of tools and of course knowledge to understand God's word and to proclaim it to the church. That's kind of like a buffet, and when you have theological training, you get a buffet. And when you have a buffet, you get really full. And one of the things I noticed in the US is a lot of people come to theological training already pretty full. Whereas our students here in Vietnam, they come to theological training pretty hungry and in real need of the knowledge of the word and skills to understand it and proclaim it and apply it to the church and proclaim the gospel

Daniel Owens / TLI Global Partner - Hanoi Bible College

Short-Term

Lomé, Togo

April, 2024

Short-Term

Lomé, Togo

May, 2024