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Emmett Dunn, director del Departamento de Juventud de la Alianza Mundial Bautista (BWA), fue una de las seis personas a las que el Seminario Teológico Bautista de Liberia (LBTS) otorgó el título de Doctor Honoris Causa en Divinidad el 31 de marzo.
“The Board of Trustees with the Administration of the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary recognizes Emmett Lafayette Dunn’s distinguished labor in His Service, the commitment to humanitarian advances and excellent leadership to the church, the community, the nation, and the world,” the citation reads. Dunn, a Liberian and alumnus of LBTS, showed “excellence and promise” from early. This promise has been fulfilled in his studies, life and work as he “has increased in wisdom and stature and in favor of God and humanity.” |
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Despite his involvement on the global stage, the BWA director ?has not allowed his global identity to detract from his local commitments to the Body of Christ? in Liberia. �Dunn was chair of the Board of Advisors of the Ricks Institute School in Liberia from 2006-2012 and serves on its Board of Trustees. Ricks, founded in the 1880s, is a Baptist school from kindergarten to grade 12, with a coeducational residential campus. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of LBTS from 2009-2012. Dunn was born in Monrovia, Liberia?s capital. After earning a Bachelor of Theology degree from LBTS, he was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1987 at Providence Baptist Church, his home church, and was appointed education director and assistant minister. Recibió una beca del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias y estudió en el Seminario Teológico de Virginia y en la Escuela de Divinidad de la Universidad Howard, en los Estados Unidos. Ha realizado estudios adicionales en desarrollo comunitario sostenible en la Universidad Estatal de Colorado. Dunn se convirtió en director del Departamento de Juventud de la BWA en 1994 y, a partir de 2006, ayuda a coordinar la planificación del Congreso Mundial Bautista, las conferencias y las reuniones. Otros conferidos con el título honorífico de Doctor en Divinidad por la LBTS fueron los liberianos Anthony Jonah y Mydea White, así como los estadounidenses John Mark Carpenter, segundo presidente de la LBTS, el filántropo Earl Stafford y la defensora de Liberia, Esther Worthington. �Baptist World Alliance� |