ACADEMICS: Missions

Description
The Bachelor of Biblical Studies Degree is designed to prepare a student with a foundation of Bible and Ministry skills for teaching, preaching, and pastoral ministries. A student will demonstrate the ability to use Biblical text to support teaching, preaching, and pastoral ministries as well as application to the world.  The Missions emphasis is designed to prepare students with the knowledge and practical steps to initiate and establish local churches.  Topics include understanding local church culture, following the Biblical design, and preparation for mission service are central to this program.

Program Outcomes
Students completing the Bachelor of Biblical Studies Degree are expected to:

1. Demonstrate their understanding of the organization and origins of the written Word of God as a context for translation.
2. Build a foundational theological framework as a basis to defend the core beliefs of the American Baptist Association and to detect false doctrines.
3. Build the foundation and processes to think critically regarding decisions and the use of data.
4. Possess the ability to communicate personally and in a group with an understanding of people and community, relationships, and governance.
5. Understand the development of humanity through history, literature, fine arts, and philosophy.
6. Minister to people, through local church and the foreign field.
7. Lead a biblical worship service.
8. Lead in the development of a congregation that exemplifies spiritual and emotional formation

Missions Ministry Emphasis will exemplify the following understanding and skills:

1. Compare and analyze the missionary sending agency models and conclusively defend and embrace the local church as the biblical sending model/agency.
2. Analyze, define, and implement the biblical principle and mandate of indigenous church planting, which produces self-supporting, self-governing, self-propagating, and self-expressing mission-minded congregations.
3. Identify and articulate the call to missionary service and implement the necessary tools and disciplines to prepare for missionary service effectively.
4. Discover and celebrate the perpetual fulfillment of the Great Commission through Baptist church history with high regard for veteran missionaries, pastors, and churches who paved the way, often with great personal sacrifice.
5. Communicate the gospel and serve others effectively in cross-cultural settings.

Career Opportunities

• Associate Pastor
• Mission Work
• Pastor
• Church Planter

Advanced Degree Opportunities

• Master of English Bible

Courses offered may be found in the current catalog.