Our Mission
To train and equip nationals in ministry across the Middle East and North Africa to effectively share the Gospel, plant local Christian churches, and strengthen and disciple believers within these fledgling church communities.
Arabs are following Jesus Christ in increasing number: an estimated 22,000 in approximately 300 fellowships and churches across the region. Amidst increasing persecution in the Arab world there is emerging a young and growing church—particularly in North Africa—that is desperately in need of leaders. The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) is uniquely positioned to meet this pressing need.
Across the Arab world, believers are persecuted and forbidden from studying at Christian seminaries. With its long and continuous heritage of religious freedom, however, Lebanon does not have these restrictions. ABTS therefore is the only seminary in the Arab world where believers can come to openly study theology and prepare for Christian ministry. We operate under the premise that nationals can best reach nationals with the Gospel, especially in areas where foreign missionaries are prohibited.
Each year, ABTS welcomes between 20 and 40 men and women from across the Middle East and North Africa to participate in an intensive training and discipleship program to prepare them for ministry. Students come from countries extending from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. After the program is complete, graduates set out to their respective countries to share the Gospel, plant churches, and disciple and develop new future leaders to build an indigenous grass roots effort to make Christ known in the region.
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These fledgling church communities, created by our graduates, are in dire need of Christian resources in the Arabic language to grow in their faith and understanding. Established in 1953 as a ministry of LSESD, Dar Manhal Al Hayat (Life Source Publishing) has emerged as the second largest publisher of Christian materials within the Arab world, producing both original Arabic works and translating existing evangelical books and materials into Arabic. From Bibles and theological textbooks to publications for children and women—populations largely ignored by Arab publishers—the ministry is filling a void for much needed resources that are both accessible and affordable to the Arab reader.
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Founded in 1956, Beirut Baptist School is located in Mosaitbeh – a densely populated suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital. Beirut Baptist School offers 1,200 students, grades K through 12, a world-class education along with training in the Christian values of humility, compassion, tolerance and equality. A full 95 percent of our students are Muslim, yet the school reaches them daily with a message of love. The school's staff models faithfulness, obedience to God's word and a caring and compassionate approach to education. Our teachers follow a student-centered approach to education and cater to the needs of individual students. Their modern approach to teaching is supported by the evolving school resources, modern labs, extensive computer center and an ever-growing library holding books, research materials and audio visuals; all of which is made possible with help from our partners. Our students have performed exceptionally well on the official Lebanese government exams. Our graduates go on to study in the best universities in Lebanon and abroad.
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The Baptist Children and Youth Ministry strives to reach young people with God's message in a way they can receive and understand it. This ministry does so through conferences and children camps that includes bible studies and discussion groups. Most of all, the ministry does this through the modeling of our leaders, volunteers from churches across Lebanon and specialized teams from the U.S. The goal is to deliver young people with an understanding of Jesus' love and teachings, and how to apply those teachings to their lives. Leaders talk to them about forgiveness, anger, culpability and remorse. This ministry takes these programs beyond the church and into the shelters and orphanages to many that have never heard God's word, but desperately desire the hope it provides.
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Community Relief & Development
As Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development (LSESD) we exist in a part of the world that is ailing and in desperate need for peace and healing. There is an enormous role for the Church to play – a Church that realizes its Biblical mission and so exists for the sake of the world. As fellow Arabs, we pursue a mission to empower the Church in the Arab World through Educational and Social Development. We do so through platforms for Christian witness and ministry relevant to the needs of the community.
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SKILD is a center specialized in providing individualized care for children with special needs and learning differences. The center offers several services varying from assessment, to counseling, speech therapy, special education, psychomotricity and community awareness in addition to its corrective program.
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