About Us
The History of Minnesota Graduate School of Theology and Christ’s Kingdom Mission College
In the early 1980’s, MGST began as a dream in the heart of Dr. William Campbell.
After many years of serving as a pastor and a chaplain in the inner city, he recognized the need for solid Biblical training for inner city pastors, offered in their own settings. He examined an educational approach gaining traction and gave potential college students credit for life experience in the field they wanted to study. He began to apply those same principles to the field of Theology, and Bibliocentric Christian Clinical Counseling. In partnership with his close friends, Dr. David Sigvertsen, co-founder of MGST, and Dr. Vic Vickerman, the dream was born in 1986. MGST was established with full approval from the State of Minnesota and was accredited soon afterward.
MGST began to grow, and interest in the school began to come from sites overseas. In October of 1991, Dr. Campbell flew to South Korea, and began work on opening an extension school there. Unfortunately, he did not live to see it opened, as he passed away suddenly in 1992. After his death, the school continued under the leadership of Dr. David Sigvertsen.
In 2013, Dr. David Sigvertsen passed and the school’s leadership was succeeded by his wife, Dr. Esther Sigvertsen, who currently serves as President.
MGST has since expanded to 100 extension and affiliate schools around the world.
After Dr. Campbell’s death, his widow, Peggy Campbell, remarried to Joseph Rayman. They both studied and earned doctorates at MGST, and later opened an affiliate school called Coastal Georgia School of Missions. After Dr. Joseph Rayman died in 2014, Dr. Peggy felt led to move to Kenya. At a meeting with her Kenyan co-laborers in 2017, it was determined that there was a need for a Theological college in Kenya that could teach practical ministry skills by returning to the first-century way of being the Church. Soon after, Dr. Rayman began the process of developing CKMC as an affiliate school. This is accomplished by training multiplying disciples that form missional communities and then sending those multiplying disciples to complete the Great Commission in the ends of the earth.
Christ's Kingdom Mission College
In February of that year 2017, the charter was moved from Georgia, US, to East Africa and began operating under the name of Christ’s Kingdom Mission College. As students are trained, CKMC has the vision to start other satellite, extension, and affiliate schools in multiple areas throughout East Africa and beyond until the task that Jesus left us is completed. Under MGST, CKMC can grant degrees in the field of Missional Church Leadership.
Meet Our Provost
Dr. Lane joins the CKMC community, as a passionate educator with over 25 years of leadership experience in multicultural and cross-cultural environments. She is gratefully furthering opportunities to learn and share knowledge in keeping with the growing movement propelled through CKMC. She has taught kindergarten through college over 19 years in both public and private sectors.
Dr. Lane is Founding President of In The Lane With U Ventures, Inc. empowering people in communities around the globe. She wants them to experience the joy of knowing The Life Giver through training points for adults, teens, and children and through the grind of daily living. She is a Master Facilitator In Training in the Trauma Healing Institute Programs. Audiences include Church Leaders, Counselors, Church Workers, Educators, Parents, Teens.
She obtained the Bachelors of Arts degree in Speech Communication Studies from Jackson State University, the Masters of Science degree in Educational Administration from Pensacola Christian College, the Masters of Arts in Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Administration for Christian Schools from Louisiana Baptist University.
As provost, she desires to be instrumental in equipping and encouraging individuals to effectively engage The Great Commission of our Lord. She is honored to serve with CKMC as they together prepare leaders to gather those whom God purchased for himself from every tribe, language, people, and nation through the house church movement.
CKMC at a Glance
Our Mission Statement
To ignite a house church planting movement by making disciples who disciple nations.
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