The Serious Joy Scholarship is the recommended vehicle for philanthropy toward Bethlehem College and Seminary. Nearly all of what we raise goes directly to the financial support of our students and the professors that teach them.

Our aim is, by God’s grace, to build an intentionally small college and seminary of about 250 students, total: 70 in the seminary, 180 in the college.

It costs Bethlehem College and Seminary about $18,000 per year to provide one student our Bible-saturated, academically rigorous, “Education in Serious Joy,” a program of higher education laser-focused on the task of equipping a new generation of men and women “to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3).

We keep student tuition not just low, not just unusually low, but

really,

really,

really,

low,
about $8,000 a year, so that our students can launch upon graduation into adulthood, life, ministry, and vocation without a burden of student loan debt—financially unshackled and ready to answer immediately God’s call on their lives.

We do that by employing extreme frugality in administration and facilities expenses, and by making bold, open-handed investments in hiring and retaining a world-class faculty to teach these students. We own no substantial real estate. Our work is done in the adorned simplicity of unused Sunday school rooms during the week. We receive no federal or state student aid funds.

Beyond that, we depend on God to supply the remaining $10,000 per student or $2.5 million per year. We call this personal ministry on the part of the saints, of which both the faculty and students are then beneficiaries, The Serious Joy Scholarship.