Please celebrate with us that God stirred the hearts of board members, students, faculty, alumni, staff, friends and other donors to meet the matching gifts that were provided last October and November.BGU is grateful to God for His generosity and the way He creates generosity in each of us for our money, heart, time, work, and gifts to display His goodness. … [Read more...]
Financial Update – End of the Year 2019
President’s Note – January 2020
Anytime we use a map app on our telephone, it takes at least three global positioning satellites for the phone to find and display where we are, where we want to go, and the route to get there. The irony is that we cannot find our way unless we are viewed from at least three different positions that are not where we currently are. The further away those three positions are from us and from each other the more accurately the map can locate us.BGU has discovered the same principle applies for finding our way in our spiritual and educational … [Read more...]
Why I take the Nairobi Immersion Course?
My name is Clifford Kuyokwa, I am from Malawi in Central Africa. I study at the Doctor of Transformation Leadership program of Bakke Graduate University. As a student studying transformation leadership at doctoral level, I have a high interest in joining my fellow students of the City and Global Transformation Urban Immersion in Nairobi, Kenya May 1-10, 2020. This urban immersion course will expose me as a student to various transformational leadership principles and practices in an African global city. This immersion will also glean … [Read more...]
The World through African Eyes
The great scholar N.T Wright, describes a worldview a NOT a view of the world BUT a view through a world of the world. We live in the world of worldviews, in fact, Pope Francis was quoted as saying that the world is already in the middle of the 3rd world war and it is a war of world views.But, it must be said that most of the views of the world being promoted and experienced has been mostly a Western or in the words of Philip Jenkins a “Global North” inspired view of the world. There is a view of this global space that is hardly seen or … [Read more...]
Born from Below
"The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us..."From John 1:1-14Henry will be joining millions of people across the world today as we celebrate Christmas. But, his will be a different kind of celebration. He will unwrap a gift swaddled in both pain and joy. His pain comes from the location of his celebration — a local prison. That’s where his son is an inmate.Our prison system gives the warden absolute power over what goes on in the prison. There are no formal rules, just the whims of the jailer. He decides who comes and … [Read more...]
