History of the Mount Meru University

Backgrounnd of MMU

Mount Meru University, first established in 1962 as International Baptist Theological Seminary of Eastern Africa (IBTSEA), was to cater for the spiritual needs of the people of Eastern and Central Africa. IBTSEA has now been transformed into Mount Meru University (MMU).

During the past forty years, IBTSEA trained over 500 hundred Eastern and Central Africa Baptist pastors and church leaders. Currently, students come from major Christian denominations representing seven different countries within and outside the Eastern Africa region.

For forty years IBTSEA has met the spiritual needs of Christians in the region. In 2002, the institution embarked on meeting the intellectual and social needs of the region. The Higher Education Accreditation Council granted Mount Meru University a Certificate of Provisional Registration (CPR) in September of 2003, and the Certificate of Full Registration, in July 2005.


Vision
To be a fountain of knowledge and wisdom that produces excellent, God fearing, visionary, skilled, proactive, hardworking and transforming servant leaders.

Mission
The Mission of Mount Meru University is to equip students with Christian ministerial and professional skills to improve their quality of life and that of their communities, nations, and the whole world in:

• Training in the long-term professional programmes in the specified theological, social sciences and other disciplines as well as in short term post experience skills building.
• Conducting research and publication of research findings on issues of spiritual and socio-economic development.
• Offering consultancy services to the general public in order to create a society free from disease, ignorance, poverty and injustice.

Philosophy
Mount Meru University is focused on the production of highly competent, disciplined, and committed servants who will transform their communities. On this basis, Mount Meru strives to:

• Sustain training programmes which focus on spiritual and physical needs.
• Become a leading provider of high quality consultancy and community service.
• Conduct high quality research and disseminate research findings to the users.