About Bahari School of Ministry
Learning Rooted in Heritage
Bahari School of Ministry is an independent, fully online institution dedicated to education grounded in heritage, service, and global responsibility. The School prepares learners for leadership across faith, community, education, culture, and public life through academically rigorous, historically informed, and socially engaged programs.
The word Bahari reflects the School's guiding vision of learning as a living current that carries knowledge, values, and responsibility across communities, generations, and borders. Bahari affirms that education, like the sea, connects rather than divides.
Our Understanding of Ministry
Bahari defines ministry as service. Ministry is not limited to a pulpit or a single profession. It is expressed through teaching, caregiving, leadership, cultural stewardship, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and community development.
Every program is designed to equip students to serve with integrity, wisdom, and practical skill in the contexts where they live and work.
Academic Approach
Bahari School of Ministry integrates the arts, sciences, social sciences, humanities, and faith-centered study within an Afrocentric and global framework. Courses emphasize critical thinking, historical consciousness, ethical leadership, the arts, and applied learning.
Instruction is designed to connect theory with practice and to prepare students for meaningful engagement in real-world settings. Artificial intelligence literacy and digital competency are incorporated across the curriculum to ensure graduates are prepared for contemporary professional environments while remaining grounded in human values and ethical responsibility.
Rigorous Curriculum
Academically rigorous programs integrating arts, sciences, humanities, and faith-centered study
Critical Thinking
Emphasis on historical consciousness, ethical leadership, and applied learning
Digital Fluency
AI literacy and digital competency integrated throughout all programs
Ethical Foundation
Grounded in human values, ethical responsibility, and service to communities
"Education, like the sea, connects rather than divides—carrying knowledge, values, and responsibility across communities, generations, and borders."
Global and Diasporic Perspective
Bahari centers diasporic histories, coastal cultures, and global exchange as foundational to understanding the modern world. Programs explore how knowledge, faith, culture, and innovation move across regions and societies, shaping communities past and present.
This perspective prepares students to lead in multicultural and international contexts.
Faculty and Leadership
Bahari is led by experienced academic and administrative leadership, including Deans and a Provost overseeing four academic departments:
Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Sciences, Math, and Technology
Ministry
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty are scholar-practitioners committed to teaching excellence, mentorship, and service-oriented education.
Learning Environment
As a fully online institution, Bahari offers flexible, accessible learning for students worldwide. Courses are designed for adult learners, working professionals, and those engaged in community leadership.
The learning environment supports independent study, collaborative engagement, and reflective growth.
Bahari School of Ministry exists to educate servant leaders whose learning is rooted in heritage, guided by faith, and committed to the advancement of communities locally and globally.