West Africa
Theological Seminary

Thank You

We have enjoyed the love and labors of Dr. and Mrs. Ira Pence and their granddaughter, from the state of Georgia. Dr. Pence is a retired engineer. In coming to WATS he has shown us all what it means to be a servant, as he and his family have both funded and built with their own hands great additions to this campus. They are examples of the increasing scores of USA team members who are blessing us these days with their medical expertise, their construction and remodeling skills, their evangelistic fervor and other capabilities. Thank you, Dr. and Mrs. Pence, and Celeste, for being with us today!

Dr. Gary Maxey, Founder
Commencement Speech, May 24, 2008 A.D.

New Construction at West Africa Theological Seminary!

West Africa Theological Seminary (WATS) is growing. There have been several new construction projects completed and underway. Our new property has plenty of space for development, and we are making use of it. Who would have guessed in 2006 when our landlord terminated our lease that just two years later, we would have an entirely new campus? And God continues to bless as we develop the new campus to meet the needs of WATS into a new century.

1. Phase 1: Remodeling of new property
2. Phase 2: Expansion of the campus

Tool Building

In May 2008 a single family from Atlanta, USA, took on as their family project the completion of one of the components of Phase Two of the WATS campus expansion. Dr. Ira and JoAnn Pence, along with their granddaughter Celeste (of Athens, Georgia), accepted the responsibility to provide the funding to build the two-room WATS tool building, and to come to WATS to actually do the work!

The tool building is located near the entrance to the campus, between the security post and the generator house, and will provide WATS with a much better means of caring for the seminary tools and campus equipment.

Two weeks of work by the Pence family involved not only working on the tool building but generally landscaping the entire area around it. What was once an eye-sore piled high with debris left over from the previous owner of the property has now become what the WATS grounds superintendent, Engineer A. O. Aina, calls "the New WATS." The project was completed just in time to celebrate the WATS eighteenth graduation exercises, on May 24, 2008.

The following pictures show the "before" and "after" pictures of this project.