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WHO WE ARE

Mission and Vision

Vision:

The church’s grounding on uncompromising biblical foundation and living a Christ-centered and God-glorifying life in the midst of competing religious and philosophical ideologies.

Our Mission:

To develop servant leaders, who having been thoroughly instructed in all disciplines of the Bible, theology, and apologetics, would not only declare and defend biblical and theological orthodoxy, but also model for the church, a Christian living, to the glory of God. 

OUR HISTORY

Logos Educational Ministries, Kenya (LEMKE) was founded towards the end of 2021 to stop the progressive drift of the church in the continent of Africa, from sound biblical and theological foundations, to syncretism (confusing amalgamation of ideas from unrelated religions) and, in many cases, apostasy, on the one hand, and minimal awareness of the need, and availability of mental health services in the continent. These areas of need became increasingly noticeable to Dr. Jonathan Mutinda Waita and Dr. Elizabeth Mulewa Mutinda in their visits to their mother continent.

Although LEMKE was founded towards the end of the year 2021, the seedbed for the organization was progressively prepared in this couple’s academic and ministry preparations. Both Dr. Waita, and Dr. Mutinda graduated with a Bachelor of Theology (B.Th.), degree from Scott Christian University, Machakos, Kenya, before they pursued graduate degree programs in diverse fields in Europe and America. 

If there was any doubt in their minds that a theological seminary that would reclaim the progressively dying biblical and theological orthodoxy was needed in Africa, it was dispelled by their diverse academic journeys and job experiences. In Kenya, Dr. Waita served as a pastor of Africa Inland Church, Mumbuni and Bomani District Church Councils for 4 years, and with Dr. Mutinda, he taught at Pwani Bible Institute, Mombasa, Kenya, for 3½ years, before relocating to the West for Dr. Waita to pursue graduate studies. Dr. Waita has an MSc in Epistemology, Ethics, and Mind from the University of Edinburgh, UK, a ThM, from Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX (USA), and a PhD in theological studies, also from Dallas Theological Seminary. Upon graduation with his PhD from DTS, Dr. Waita accepted, in January 2014, an offer to teach theology and apologetics at the Liberty University’s graduate school of theology (Rawlings School of Divinity), where he has served to date. Since 2016, Dr. Waita has also been teaching philosophy at Dallas College (formerly, Richland Community College), and in August 2021, Dr. Waita accepted an offer to serve as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Bible Exposition, Dallas Theological Seminary.

In his Bible exposition teaching, Dr. Waita is continuously reminded of the danger of establishing the church on shacky biblical foundations. The enthusiasm with which Dr. Waita’s Bible exposition, theology, apologetics, and philosophy students appreciate his teaching goes a long way to confirm Dr. Waita’s conviction that an establishment, in the continent of Africa, of a seminary that would re-establish students on biblical fidelity, build a truly orthodox Christian theological scholarship, and call the church back to the sound doctrinal commitment she once professed, is overdue. 

In Dr. Waita’s endeavor to fill this orthodox theological educational lacuna, he finds motivational, Christ’s declaration and promise to Peter, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it” (Matt. 16:18). It is Dr. Waita’s conviction that the term “church” here, bears a universal, rather than a regional or local connotation, for obvious interpretive reasons. Many local churches have died. Today, the first Christian local church, the church of Jerusalem is nowhere to be found. The church (Christianity) became the official religion of the Roman Empire following the conversion of Constantine, the Roman Emperor in 312 AD. However, the fall to the Ottoman Empire, of Constantinople, and with it the eastern half of the Roman Empire on May 29th, 1453, marked the end of the Asia Minor Christianity and with it the seven churches to which the book of Revelation was primarily written. Although a remnant church has survived in the east, it cannot be said to be healthy in any stretch of imagination. It survives on life-support. 

For many centuries, the church in the western hemisphere exhibited all signs of good health. It based its biblical interpretation on sound hermeneutics, promoted orthodox Christian theological scholarship without shame, and carried out rigorous mission activities, spreading the gospel to unreached continents like South America, Asia, and Africa, in a manner that promised its longevity. 

However, with the advent of the era of modernity, ushered in by thinkers like René Descartes and John Locke, in the 17th century, and perpetuated by their Enlightenment trajectories championed by such 18th century luminaries like David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and their philosophical protégés, the Western church succumbed to the pressure to yield ground to the progressively secularized culture. Having replaced its faith in the Bible with one in science, the Western church succumbed so much to the seduction of the antisupernaturalist culture that the New Testament liberal scholar, Rudolf Bultmann suggested the demythologization of the Bible. Having signed into scientific materialism, from whose perspective reality is exclusively of material/physical nature, Bultmann rejected any reality of spiritual and/or supernatural nature. Since the Bible is replete with miraculous, spiritual and supernatural accounts, which Bultmann considered purely mythological, his demythologization project involved purging the Bible of these “myths”, to come up with a document that could sell to the sophisticated science-oriented modern thinker. The result of this project was regrettably obvious—the rejection of the nature of God, the virgin birth of Christ, and the resurrection of Christ, and such like supernatural truths. This theological skepticism has been perpetuated by the Postmodern world view that rejects the reality of absolute truth in favor of relative truth, and renders knowledge subjective rather than objective. 

The death of the church in the traditionally Christian lands compels one to conclude that the church whose withstanding of the gates of hell the perfectly truthful and trustworthy Lord promised could not have been regional or local. One truth that remains albeit trivially is that the devil cannot frustrate Christ’s desire to keep the church alive. As the devil chokes the church in one region of the world, the seed of the church germinates elsewhere in the Lord’s world. Dr. Waita is inclined to believe that Africa, this once referred to as the dark continent because of its blindness to the gospel, may as well be the new center of Christianity.

Dr. Waita’s passion for the establishment of a theological seminary that will reclaim biblical and theological orthodoxy is complemented by Dr. Mutinda, whose qualifications include a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling, a Master of Psychology, and a PsyD (Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology). In 2010, Dr. Mutinda became a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas, and in 2018, two years after her PsyD graduation, she received an, EPPP (psychology licensure) in the same state. Since 2019, she has been serving as a senior psychologist in Texas’s largest mental hospital at Wichita Falls. 

Drs. Waita’s and Mutinda’s wealth of training and job experience will come in handy in the establishment of this important Christian institution of higher learning in the continent of Africa. The Sub-Sahara Africa is desperately shouting the theological education Macedonian call. This openness of the continent to theological teaching comes with its own danger. It can be exploited by unscrupulous individuals to propagate theological heterodoxy to the detriment of the church. Be that as it may, the solution to the lacuna of biblical and theological teaching in Africa had rather be orthodoxy. Drs. Waita and Mutinda strongly present LEMKE’s theological educational project as an orthodox answer to this urgent need.