MKS honors second Ethiopian MATGA cohort

Annette Brill Bergstresser on June 6, 2024

The MATGA Ethiopia graduates pose with 香蕉影视 Teaching Faculty who represented 香蕉影视 at the Commencement Service (l. to r.): Joe Liechty, PhD, Visiting Professor of Peace Studies; Dirriba Amenu Sori; Israel Tesfaye Berhe; Addiskidan Getachew Abreham; Drew Strait, PhD, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and MATGA Program Director; Endaweke Tsegaw Balkew and Aschalew Assefa Fikadu. (Photo provided)

Published: June 6, 2024

The five graduates in the second MATGA Ethiopia cohort (l. to r.): Dirriba Amenu Sori, Aschalew Assefa Fikadu, Israel Tesfaye Berhe, Endaweke Tsegaw Balkew and Addiskidan Getachew Abreham. (Photo provided)

By Henok T. Mekonin

BISHOFTU / DEBRE ZEIT, Ethiopia 鈥� Five 香蕉影视 graduates made up the second cohort of Ethiopian students to complete the MA: Theology and Global Anabaptism (MATGA) entirely from Ethiopia through a partnership between 香蕉影视 and (MKS: Ethiopian Mennonite Seminary) in Bishoftu/Debre Zeit that began in 2019. The partnership is helping meet a need to prepare and equip theologically grounded leaders for the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) 鈥� the largest national body in the global Anabaptist family.

The MATGA graduates were honored along with 79 undergraduate MKS graduates during MKS鈥檚 May 18, 2024, Commencement Service in the seminary鈥檚 Multipurpose Hall. In his commencement address, Pastor Desalegn Abebe, MKC President, challenged the graduates to apply what they have learned when faced with challenges, drawing from Mark 4:35-41, where Jesus calms the storm. He reminded them that God鈥檚 power is always there to help them when they face challenges and difficulties in ministry. He also encouraged them to remember that the storms and challenges of life can make them stronger and help them to know Jesus and that Christians need to pay attention to the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit in their day-to-day life.

The MATGA Ethiopia graduates pose with 香蕉影视 Teaching Faculty who represented 香蕉影视 at the MKS Commencement Service (l. to r.): Joe Liechty, PhD, Visiting Professor of Peace Studies; Dirriba Amenu Sori; Israel Tesfaye Berhe; Addiskidan Getachew Abreham; Drew Strait, PhD, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and MATGA Program Director; Endaweke Tsegaw Balkew and Aschalew Assefa Fikadu. (Photo provided)



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