Providing pastors with leadership skills and practical vocational ministry skills

We need to be able to teach people to think clearly and to engage in knowledge generation. SMMS is the only institution in South Africa which offers full time residential training of this quality where our students are encouraged not only to learn in a classroom, but also through doing life together.

Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary forms transforming leaders for church and nation by providing spiritual formation, academic, vocational and practical training required to develop skilled leaders of integrity, faithfulness and excellence. The academic faculty of the Seminary is passionately committed and qualified to develop the kind of transformational leaders the church and nation need. All are committed to teaching theology in an African context while retaining a sense of the international perspective local and global world views. With an emphasis on empowering people for the development of our emerging society. Our mission statement gives expression to our conviction that transformative leadership is vital if Southern Africa is to achieve its full potential and become a region that is fully healed, reconciled, able to address critical challenges, respect the dignity and basic human rights of all people, and deliver the essential and humanizing services that characterize societies at their best a vision of transformative leadership.

We would like to see Southern Africa become more reconciled, more educated, more equal and less corrupt. We believe if we send out competent leaders for the ministry of the gospel that we would be able to achieve that.