{"id":3936,"date":"2019-08-28T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/?page_id=3936"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:31:15","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jvianudy-1eed86e4ff000a87295a8d292f1d4525\">\n.avia-section.av-jvianudy-1eed86e4ff000a87295a8d292f1d4525{\nbackground-color:#b02b2c;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-jvianudy-1eed86e4ff000a87295a8d292f1d4525 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  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equips indigenous leaders from America and the nations of the world by offering an affordable theological education, combining academic instruction with practical hands-on ministry and personal mentorship. Our mission empowers these leaders to be instruments of change in their communities.<\/p>\n<h3>Our History<\/h3>\n<p>In 1987, George Neau pioneered an inner city church in the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana. He saw the need to develop ethnic leadership to reach the moral, spiritual, and financial needs of impoverished neighborhoods. He realized the need for bible college training; however, the cost for such training was often out of reach because of poor educational backgrounds and rampant poverty levels. The college began in George\u2019s living room. Over time, George\u2019s God-given dream of building a Bible college would be fulfilled by acquiring depressed land in the inner city, transforming them into facilities with donated materials and volunteer labor. The college was to be known as the School of Urban Missions (SUM). In 2011, the college changed its name to SUM Bible College &amp; Theological Seminary. This name change heralds SUM\u2019s new direction as evolving from a strictly urban focus to an evangelical worldwide emphasis.<\/p>\n<h3>Our Commitment<\/h3>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>Dynamic chapel services<\/li>\n<li>A unified community within the dorms<\/li>\n<li>Personal mentorship with administration, faculty and alumni<\/li>\n<li>Serving the student body through the Student Government Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3936","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>History - SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"History - 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