On Friday evening, August 14, 2020 Midwest Bible College will honor Reverend Louis E. Sibley III, Senior Pastor of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. This will take place at Midwest Bible College’s seventeenth annual graduation ceremonies which will be held at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, 375 South Moorland Road, Brookfield, Wisconsin. Festivities will begin at 7:00 p.m. that will honor the graduates of the 2019 – 2020 academic school year together with awards and honors.
Reverend Sibley will receive an Honorary Doctorate in Biblical Studies. He has distinguished himself through a life of dedicated service to God, community and ministry labor in building the Kingdom of God.
Rev. Louis E. Sibley, III comes from a family of preachers. His grandfather, uncle and brother have all served as pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana. Pastor Sibley was called to the ministry at the age of 18.
Pr. Sibley is a native of Alexandria, Louisiana. He is the fourth child of the late Deacon Louis Jr. and Deaconess Esther Sibley. He attended catholic grade school and public high school. After high school graduation, he attended Bishop College, Dallas, Texas, where he majored in religion and philosophy. He completed his graduate studies at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, with a master’s degree in Pastoral Care and Counseling. At Andover Newton, Newton Massachusetts, his post graduate work was in Psychology and Clinical Studies.
His community involvement has included the Milwaukee County Community Services Board and Greater Milwaukee Committee’s Accountability Support Group (ASG) for MPS. Rev. Sibley is one of the founding Pastors of Milwaukee Inner-city Churches Allied for Hope better known as MICAH and served as President for two terms. He has served on the Legacy Redevelopment Corporation Board of Directors.
Pastor Sibley’s service includes, past President of the Wisconsin General Baptist State Convention and Vice President of Operations under the leadership of Rev. Robert T. Wilson. Nationally he has been involved with the People for the American Way and the National Teachers Education Association as a Community Leader Representative.
He is a great spirit and gifted preacher. First and foremost, he loves the Lord and he has learned to trust God even when he cannot track Him.