Introducing Edison DSouza Mysore, Karnataka, India 2021 Grantee Alex Steddom International Student Fund Every Summer, Bethlehem College & Seminary seeks to raise $185,000 every summer to replenish a fund used to support the extraordinary financial needs of four international students in the seminary. The Admissions Committee of Bethlehem College & Seminary announces the selection of Pastor […]
It has been approximately two years since my family and I moved to Cameroon, and we are admitting the second cohort for the Bethlehem College & Seminary Cameroon extension site and also preparing to launch the church-plant that will house this seminary. We have held two conferences so far, all of which God used significantly to […]
A year ago, I wrote in one of these prayer letters, “It is my prayer that there would be an increasingly strong connection between Bethlehem College & Seminary and Bethlehem Baptist Church and the churches in Hawaii.” I’m delighted to update you about how that prayer is being answered. In the fall of 2014, I […]
The Lord has done it again! We’ve just completed our first week of classes in the new school year, and the Lord has blessed us beyond expectations. All summer long, I’ve been reading about the concerns, the hopes, and the plans of many other institutions of higher learning. Nearly everyone was predicting a massive meltdown […]
“I thank you deeply for your generous gifts because I would not be able to bear the cost of seminary without your financial assistance. Bethlehem College & Seminary gives me an intense immersion into a God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated higher education. Even now as I enter my final year, I am equipped to teach and preach at […]
Cities are intensifiers, both for good and for evil. Reflecting on how Scripture characterizes cities reveals this reality. Early in Genesis, Cain and Lamech concentrate evil in cities, yet when Israel enters the Promised Land, God commands them to build “cities of refuge” (Numbers 35:11). Later in Genesis, God weighs the evil of the cities […]
“I am deeply thankful for what the Lord has been doing these past months. By God’s grace, I have completed my third year in seminary, and I continue to marvel at God’s undeserved grace in this time of training. Earlier this year, the elders and members of Bethlehem Baptist Church voted me to become […]
“Thank you so much for your love for the nations and your passion to see Christ exalted in my life. I am happy to announce that I made it through my first Minnesotan winter alive! The transformation from winter to spring is truly an illustration of the resurrection. I mention this to remind you […]
God moved through international travel restrictions during this year of global pandemic to bring us an aspiring pastor from Jakarta, Indonesia, by way of Salem, Oregon. Benaya Ariel has just completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management at Corban University, a Christian school located in Oregon. We will welcome him to the […]
The year 2020 has reminded us as vividly as any year in recent memory of the truths in James 4:13–17: Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—yet you do not know what tomorrow will […]