As the first seminary of the churches of Christ in Ghana, the Ghana Bible College (GBC) was established to train preachers and develop leaders for the local churches. The management of the College has maintained and continues to promote the original mission of their predecessors to ensure that the banner
of the gospel is held higher for more souls to be won and nurtured for eternal life.
In pursuance of its mission, whilst responding appropriately to dynamics of modern society, the management of GBC has started reengineering processes to reposition the college to become more relevant to the church and attractive to the society within which it operates. The College is consistently but carefully adapting to the changing social, economic and academic environment in order to survive. Thus, GBC is transforming its operations and curriculum in line with current interest and direction of educational pursuit to meet the spiritual and human resource needs of the church. But then, it is important to assure all stakeholders that these efforts are in no way going to
compromise the sanctity of the New Testament teachings, beliefs and practices of the Lord’s church.
It needs to be noted that, the complexity of the composition of the membership of the church today, and the sophistication of contemporary
society from which we draw new members into the church put enormous challenges on the skills mix of
leaders of the modern congregations. Managing the church today therefore calls for better spiritual
and academic preparations than it used to be in the past. The church today thus needs more trained and
better quality leadership in the form of elders and deacons, preachers, Bible teachers, etc. to fulfill
its role and to grow in the modern society.
As the premier centre for preacher training and leadership development for the Lord’s church in Ghana,
GBC accepts the challenge to provide the needed rigorous and sound theological training to enhance practical
competence, academic and socio-economic skills necessary to lead contemporary congregations. In a concerted effort to position the College to serve the church and society better,
series of strategies are underway to guide the management over the short term, the medium term and the long term. The plan for the short term covers a period of five years from 2014 to 2018;
the medium term from 2019 to 2023 and the long term from 2024 to 2028.