Graduation of student pastors

PCC Moderator laments mushrooming of fake churches & pastors
- 27 student pastors graduate from Kumba Theology College
By Ajongakou Santos and Johnson Mbu in Kumba

 Graduating pastors from Kumba Theology school

20 graduates with Bachelor’s degrees in theology and seven with masters in theology were over the weekend christened as pastors and reverends respectively from the Kumba Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Joining the 440 Clergy of the PCC, these pulpit tenants were urged to be transformed transformers amidst the changing era.
    While officiating the authorisation of these 27 graduates at PCC Kosala, Kumba last Sunday May 31, the new moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon called on them to be models worth emulating and do the will of God diligently. Rt. Rev. Fonki Samuel used the occasion to decry vexatiously the proliferation of fake churches and pastors, saying they are a real threat to the very foundation of God’s Ministry.
    The Rt. Rev. Fonki was officiating the graduation and christening ceremonies at the Kumba Theology College for the first time since his induction as new Moderator of the PCC.
    The bachelor of theology batch was admitted into the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Cameroon Christian University (CCU) in the 2012/2013 academic year with a total of twenty; four ladies and sixteen gentlemen. For three years, and two years respectively, the pastors and reverends lipped that they have learned so much but also have suffered sundry prejudices in the course of their training. Recurrent power failure, recurrent typhoid and malaria cases and also the non-supply of key textbooks did not stop nor delay these pulpit tenants from running till the end.

    In consonance with the Jesus’ example, the seven members of the 2013-2015 masters in theology batch believe their two-year intensive Masters in Theology course at the Cameroon Christian University, has helped them acquire more wisdom for service and not just academic titles to be reverend. Like Will Durant, both the B.Th and M.Th graduates are unanimous that advancement in education at any level “is a progressive discovery of our own individual and collective ignorance.”
    The Unique qualities of the Masters of Theology batch that called for them to be christened “The trinity batch of transformers” ranged from the fact that; they are the 3rd batch of Masters of Theology students to graduate from the this institution since the inception of the post graduate programme in 2009; the fact that they had to study for three semesters before embarking on research and thesis writing and also owing to the fact that;  their batch is the only M.Th batch that had students sent in from three protestant churches in Cameroon namely, 5 students sent in by the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, one from the Eglise Evangelique du Cameroun (EEC) and one from The Apostolic Church in Cameroon with the later demonstrating high level of ecumenism.
    In all, the 27 graduates assured the Clergy of the Church and sundry others present that, “we can assure you that the batch of transformers can be trusted to be ambassadors for Christ as we will conduct ourselves worthy of our calling; God being our helper. We promise never to fail our God, never to confirm ourselves to worldly standards but to be agents of transformation for the glory of God and not for our self-projection.”