Welcome to the West Africa Advanced School of Theology in Lomé, Togo! Here you’ll meet people from many lands who have one passion in common: the evangelization of Africa for the glory of God!

The Church is exploding across Africa. In the Assemblies of God, churches are mothering new churches as people respond to the call to follow Jesus. But there is one problem: Where do you find pastors for these new works? Some countries have literally hundreds of churches without trained pastors to lead them. Some of these churches fall into tragic error.

The West Africa Advanced School of Theology (WAAST) exists to train African pastors, evangelists, and missionaries at the college level. They learn to live by the WAAST motto: “Training for Missio Dei through Pentecostal Servanthood.” Missio Dei means “God’s mission,” and graduates serve in His harvest field in many ways. They are leaders of their national or district church organizations, teach in Bible institutes, or enter other lands as missionaries.

The Assemblies of God Graduate School of Theology (AGGST) provides post-graduate study in Missiology / Evangelism and in Christian Education. Its French program, new in 2002, is the first Assemblies of God Master’s degree program in this language.

We invite you to read on to see what the Lord is doing at WAAST and AGGST.

 WAAST and AGGST only serve students from West and Central Africa.

 WAAST and AGGST do not offer courses online.

My dear friends:

It has been said that you can count the seeds in an orange, but you cannot count the oranges in a seed. If a seed is planted at the right time, cultivated, cared for and encouraged to grow, it can grow into a tree that will produce many oranges. We believe that is the challenge set before us here at WAAST, to help you reach your fullest potential for the Lord. Jesus said to His disciples, “I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.” We believe that your experience at WAAST will better equip you to be harvesters for the Master. We are convinced that WAAST is “Training for Missio Dei through Pentecostal Servanthood.” Our goal is to help you accomplish the Mission of God. We believe this can best be done by servant leaders who are full of Pentecostal power.

We have a dedicated staff and professionally prepared faculty at the campus of the college. We also are blessed by availability of adjunct faculty from several countries in West and Central Africa and from overseas. These men and women are committed to seeing the harvest of Jesus Christ brought in to the Master’s house. Most of them are involved in ministry outside of their teaching responsibilities, giving them fresh insight into the material presented in class. We invite you to come and learn alongside these professors.

Our curriculum has been designed to include both basic and specialized biblical and theological studies. The several arts courses are intended to give you tools to use in this ministry and to allow you to meet the requirements of similar schools around the world, should you desire to go on for further studies after WAAST.

Graduates from WAAST are serving in a variety of ministry positions across West and Central Africa. Several are leaders at the national church level, teachers at Bible schools, pastors of local churches, women’s ministries coordinators, ministers to children and evangelists planting new churches. Most are involved in the Harvest. If you want to be better equipped for the Harvest, we encourage you to consider WAAST. Come and discover how many oranges there are in a seed.

May God richly bless you,

Randy Tarr, President

West Africa Advanced School of Theology (WAAST) trains ministers to pursue excellence in the knowledge and skills needed to enable them to carry out God’s mission (missio Dei) to the nations of the world as Pentecostal servants in the roles of pastor, evangelist, missionary, administrator and Bible college teacher.