President
Rev. Dr. Leaid S. Zeyoe, Sr. was born in 1956, in Nimba County, Liberia as the third of six children of his parents. He traveled with his family to Monrovia in 1965 and later went to ELWA/SIM Compound in Paynesville to live with his Uncle. He was witnessed by his First Grade Teacher and accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord in 1967 during recess period at Carver Mission School, then located in King Gray Town. From Carver Mission School, he continued schooling at the William V.S. Tubman High School, the University of Liberia (UL), Monrovia Bible Institute (MBI), and Leadership Training Institute (LTI) in Kilchzimmer, Switzerland. In 2007, Logos Graduate School of Jacksonville, Florida, USA conferred on Rev. Zeyoe the degree of Doctor of Divinity with all the rights, honors and privileges thereunto pertaining. He met Miss Rebecca L. Banks in High School and later got married in 1983. The union is blessed with four children, two boys and two girls with many other children reared and being reared by the family.
Rev. Zeyoe served as Senior Pastor for the VP Road Church for some years and assisted in the procurement of the land in Ganta, Nimba County on which LICC is built. He also assisted in the construction of the ULIC Headquarters Building on the Old Road, Sinkor, Liberia. In 2001, Rev. Zeyoe, along with two other persons, was elected (selected) by the United Liberia Inland Church (ULIC) Administrative Committee and decision-makers, as President for the Denomination and served up to 2004. In 2013, Rev. Zeyoe was again elected as ULIC President and is currently serving in that capacity. Prior to his elevation to the high seat of ULIC, he served as a leader for the Monrovia-based ULIC Youth Group known as ULICYCA.
In Public Service, he served as Cost Estimator and later as Internal Auditor for the Liberian Government Central Printing Press and the Ministry of Agriculture respectively. He was appointed as the coordinator for the establishment of Bethesda Christian Mission School, BCMS, in 1982, and by early 1983, the doors of the School were formally opened to the children of Liberia. Rev. Zeyoe served as Board Chair for the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) of Liberia for some years before becoming the CEF National Director in 1986. He is a former Board Chairman for the Association of Evangelicals of Liberia, AEL, and is the current Chairman of the Carver Mission Advisory Board in Liberia. Rev. Zeyoe likes cracking jokes, preaching practical messages/sermons, and desires to see ULIC continuing as a true Bible-believing and teaching evangelical Church in Liberia and worldwide.