VIRGINIA, Liberia — A former war refugee who returned to his native Liberia in 2005 to run a K-12 boarding school has been elected president of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention.
Olu Menjay, principal of Ricks Institute, a school with 620 students located about 15 miles from Liberia’s capital Monrovia, was elected to a three-year term of office at a convention meeting March 17.
Menjay is assistant professor in the Roberts Department of Christianity in Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts. He is also vice president and chairman of the Human Rights Advocacy Commission of the Baptist World Alliance, the youngest person ever to be elected to the position.
Menjay said his goals as president include improving education by strengthening Baptist schools in Liberia and securing scholarships for Liberian Baptists to study abroad. He also seeks to empower Liberian Baptist churches to “fulfill self-sufficiency with a focus to eliminate a future of dependency.”
A third aim of his administration is to expose the convention’s work to fellow Baptists around the world.
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