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Below read a news report about the University where pastor Dean will teach in August.

TODAY, July 8
6pm Scrapbooking

Saturday, July 9
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Holy Communion (Contemporary)

Sunday, July 10
9:30 am Holy Communion
10:30 am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study

Monday, July 11
10am staff meeting
6pm Executive Board

Tuesday, July 12
10:30 am [Area 3 Pastor's study]
1:30 pm Mending at Bethany Home

Wednesday, July 13
11:30 am SALT lunch (Single Adults Living Today)

Friday, July 15 - Newsletter Deadline

Saturday, July 16
8am Men's Bible Study
5pm Healing Service

Sunday, July 17
9:30 am Service of the Word (ELW 10)
10:30 am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study
4:30 pm 2 Thessalonians Study
8pm Swim Party at City Pool

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lindsborg, KS

Africa International University Granted Kenyan Charter as a “Mark of Quality”
Africa International University received its charter on March 4, 2011, in a festive celebration presided over by Mwai Kibaki, C.G.H., M.P., president and commander-in-chief of the defense forces of Kenya. It is only the thirteenth private university in Kenya to have attained full accreditation status. In his speech Kibaki congratulated “all those who have made this possible. I especially commend the sponsors for their immense efforts which have culminated in the actualization of their dream of a university.” He described the charter as “a mark of quality,” for AIU “already has a rich history.” The president praised AIU for being “at the forefront in providing post-graduate theological training to Christian leaders in Kenya and the African continent,” noting, “Many of the inspiring and effective Protestant leaders in Africa have been trained in this institution. You have played an important role in ensuring that the men and women who serve in our churches are equipped with necessary ministry skills. I am confident that the award of this charter will help towards making this institution a world-renowned university that serves humanity.”
During the same ceremony Watson Omulokoli, professor of church history in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Kenyatta University, was installed as the AIU chancellor. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture, Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana. In 2006–8 he was a member of
the Task Force for the Development of the National Strategy for University Education in Kenya.
Omulokoli also is patron of Bible Translation and Literacy East Africa, the national counterpart of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and is chairman of the trustee board of the African Institute for Contemporary Mission and Research. He was a 2010–11 resident at the Overseas Ministries Study Center (publisher of the IBMR), where he wrote profiles for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Negotiations to relocate the DACB’s research coordinating hub to AIU are underway. The database itself will be hosted at the Boston University School of Theology. Omulokoli pledged that AIU would be committed to “offer quality education with integrity” by maintaining “academic and intellectual excellence,” laying strong spiritual foundations, and pursuing its mandate of moral and ethical integrity in all its programs.
Later, AIU also announced the appointment of Andrew F. Walls as research professor in world Christianity in its Centre for World Christianity.
Walls is professor of the history of missions, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England; honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh and founder and former director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World there; and an IBMR contributing editor. The appointment will commence in September 2011.
The university comprises three schools: the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, an “evangelical post-graduate theological institution to promote excellence in African Christianity”; the Institute for the Study of African Realities; and the School of Professional Studies. For details, go online to www.negst.edu.
—Daniel J. Nicholas, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, July 2011