SCHOOL
OF THEOLOGY

The uniqueness of the program is that OBM's objective is to take the courses to the students with minimal expense to them.  It is often times too expensive and logistically too difficult for potential students to attend formal seminaries or Bible schools therefore the curriculum is made available to them through OBM teachers who will host classes anywhere in the four lower coastal counties they find enough interested students to justify renting a house or office to hold classes.  

In the beginning, OBM intended to give current pastors, that had never been formally trained, a foundation of good doctrine and the basics of pastoral duties. Over time, men not called to pastorship desire Bible training, and eventually women were joining the classes. Today,  out of the classes completing each year, approximately 4% of all male graduates express their interest and calling to plant a new church if they aren't already a pastor.

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In Kenya, there are three levels of post-prep education: Certificate, Diploma, and Degree. The Degree is the same as the United States which is a Bachelors level education.  The Diploma is much like an Associates level education. And the Certificate is the foundational understanding of a person's trade.  Due to the proliferation of random and many times criminal "religions" and "preachers" that were lying to, abusing, and robbing Kenyans, the Government of Kenya now requires all pastors leading churches to at least have a Certificate level of education.  Although the basis of OBM's curriculum is of seminary quality and is based on a theological seminary degree program that Dr. Alvin Low taught for many years in American Seminaries, OBM presents its training as Certificate level only.