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A Bible School was started again in Tedim in 1953; S T Hau
Go was the principal there. Though it was not yet official,
S T Hau Go gave the name Zomi Baptist Convention Bible
School. The school needed to be moved to Hakha in 1954; R G
Johnson was the principal there. The first graduation
service was held there in 1956. Johnson printed the name
Chin Hills Bible School on the first graduation certificate.
The Zomi Baptist Convention Executive Committee officially
gave the name Zomi Baptist Bible School in December 1956.
The Schools both in Tedim and in Hakha were conducted on
middle school level.
Baptist Mission Secretary, E E Sowards, was much concerned
for the upgrading of the school into a high school level.
And the school was moved from Hakha to Falam, the then
District Headquarters, in 1959.
Those years testified the fact that theological education
work was mobile, shared for management through qualified
leaders, regardless of geographical distance.
Principal David Van Bik proposed to change the name to Zomi
Baptist Theological School, and it was adopted, 1960. The
school was renamed Zomi Baptist Theological Seminary as
proposed by Principal Simon Pau Khan En, in 1974. The year
saw offering of the Diploma Course. The present name Zomi
Theological College as proposed by principal Chum Awi was
adopted in 1983. The year started the B Th degree program.
The college was affiliated to the Burma now Myanmar
Institute of Theology, Insein, from 1983-1991. Thus the B Th
degree was conferred by the BIT for three times: 1988, 1990,
1991.
Noteworthy also is that the 2001 ZTC consultation did not
feel a need to change the name of the school.
The college was accepted as a member institute of the
Association for Theological Education in South East Asia,
ATESEA, in 1982. Every four year visit of the ATESEA
Accreditation Commission has made good report upon our
degree programs and even our projects. The ZTC BTh was
accredited by the ATESEA in 1991.
Since opened, the ZTC has produced Christian ministers and
community leaders for 851 in number: certificate and diploma
243; B Th 445; BRE 100; B Min 26; MDiv 34. The ZTC have had
a B Th joint-program with four sister schools: Chin
Christian College in Hakha, Tedim Theological College,
Tedim, and Bethel Theological Seminary, Tahan, Union
Theological Seminary, UTC, Matupi. Those ones were already
accredited by the ATESEA in 2000, 2004.
Regarding construction work, we have here three stages.
First stage:
Since the school moved to Falam in 1959, for around twenty
years, she worked through one main building for students:
first level for classrooms and second level for dormitory,
with one small kitchen and three residential quarters. Those
lovely old buildings already changed into new larger ones.
Second stage:
The first chapel building of 24ft x 40ft doublestorey was
constructed and completed in 1980; its construction cost
reached to K20,000. This was dismantled in April 2002 and
there located is the Golden Jubilee Hall!
The Johnson hall of 24ft x 72ft doublestorey boys dormitory,
cost of K70,000, was built in 1982.
The Sowards Memorial Library of 30ft x 60ft doublestorey
which cost for 11 lakh kyats was built in 1991-92.
The Laura Villa of 20ftx60ft doublestorey girls dormitory
was built in 1992: it cost for 8 lakh kyats.
Third stage:
The threestorey main building with measurement of 24ft x
120ft was completely constructed in 1996-1997; the cost
tallied to 55 lakh kyats.
The doublestorey dining hall with measurement of 50ftx30ft;
20ftx30ft was completely constructed in 2000; the cost
tallied to 50lakh kyats.
The threestorey golden jubilee hall with measurement of
24ftx40ft; 40ftx40ft was completely constructed in
2002-2003; with cost for 75 lakh kyats.
Fourth stage:
Ngun Bual Memorial Building, NBMB, donated by her children,
families of Biak Hlei Mang and sisters, on 31 January 2008;
three storey building with measurement of 50x30ft, to be
completely constructed in one year term.
Lailun Integrated Development Centre, LIDC, is comprised of
four shelters of 18x12ft., five huts for livestock breeding
and storage. The centre itself for 110x40ft double storey
with residential quarters for 50x30ft double storey has been
planned.
The Fourfold
Purpose of the ZTC:
To train students for Church ministry and Christian service
To equip students for the build-up of authentic humanity
To produce students, having mission spirit & experiencing
mission work
To have fellowship with other seminaries in Myanmar
The ZTC
Community Ethos:
This exercises itself with three modes, viz. spiritual
formation through community life; intellectual formation
through academic pursuit; vocational formation through field
education. Hence, discernment and commitment.
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About us
The Chin people with the Chinland has been good to the
ZTC,since the latter started for service in 1953. That
goodness is being read through the graduates for eight
hundred and eighty two up to date, servicing the land within
and without the people and the land.
On the other hand, the ZTC is faithful to retain her motto:
Not to be served, but to serve, which makes manifest itself
through the present human power that strives to live with
the ecological community. Hence, ours is the Applied
Theological Education. You'll read about these ones on our
website. We wouldn't be able to tell these ones without your
support. Thank you, for your prayer and generosity. And we
pledge to remain recognisible and accountable.
Do Sian Thang
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