History
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Years of history and education
Initial Stages (1975-1987)
World Gospel Mission founded Kaboson Bible School (KBS) in 1957 through missionary ministries of Rev. Loren and Lois Clark. In 1960, the school began offering a short-term training program for local church planters and pastors. Pastoral training was conducted in the language of the natives. The Theological Training School offered an eight-year program of study where student-pastors would be in class for two separate months every year and be at their home areas the rest of the time of the year caring for their families, evangelizing their community members, planting new and shepherding young congregations in their places of assignment within their localities (CHANGED TO SCHOOL BASED PROGRAM). Interestingly, graduation celebrations took place at the student pastor’s home churches rather than in the school as the events served as evangelistic avenues. The graduates of KBS served as Pastors, Evangelists and Spiritual caretakers in the local mission schools. This program came to a close in 1987.
Transitional Stages (1988-2007)
Kaboson Bible School experienced an intergenerational period of quietness from 1988-1992. As the Africa Gospel Church grew numerically and geographically taking its roots in the rural areas, a great need arose to train leaders and Pastors, Evangelists, Local missionaries and other Christian workers. Early in 1993, the leadership of the Africa Gospel Church and World Gospel Mission, a partnering missionary agency, jointly began a new program to train church leaders. The school was newly opened in the month of May, 1993 with a new name, Kaboson Pastors School (KPS). The main goal was to meet the spiritual needs, accomplish evangelistic endeavors and leadership development of the then fast growing AGC congregations. The pastoral school started to recruit a younger generation of pastors to train for a two-year certificate and diploma programs in pastoral ministries. During this period, only male pastors and evangelists were admitted due to limited accommodation facilities.
Leading College
College Level Stage (From 2008)
In the year 2008, the School Council considered registering the institution with the Ministry of Education Science and Technology as a tertiary college. On being elevated to a college level, the institution began to offer a three-year diploma program and a two-year certificate program in pastoral ministry. With improved infrastructure in the college, started to admit female students to train together with their male counterparts in preparation for Christian ministries. It is during this period that Kaboson Pastors Training College became the official name of the institution.
To date, KPTC trains Pastors, Evangelists, Missionaries, Counselors and other Christian workers from different parts of Kenya and from other regions of East Africa such as Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Our alumni serve in different leadership capacities in churches, non-profit organizations, hospitals, schools, missions and other faith-based institutions and are known for their deep understanding of the Bible and theology, as well as their ability to provide compassionate and effective pastoral care while taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole Church and to the Whole World.