God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. Spend the next three–four years relishing this great truth as you mine the treasures of the Bible in the company of a small band of brothers who sense, as you do, a call to herald the gospel to a lost and needy world.

You will learn in an extraordinarily small school where a tight-knit community of fellow apprentices, professors, pastors, and church members share a deep personal interest in your academic performance, spiritual growth, and preparation for the noble office of biblical overseer. And it all takes place amid the life of a globally-minded local church in a multi-ethnic urban center in which opportunities for equipping abound.

You will be challenged and pushed beyond your sense of your own abilities. Here you will cultivate lifelong habits of mind and heart as you also witness firsthand the joys and sorrows of pastoral ministry and graduate with a resilient faith and the ability to wield the sword of truth carefully in contending for the truth in the home, church, and world.

The goal of this concentration is to provide biblical foundations and practical training for those sensing God’s call to be pastors, particularly of new churches or churches needing revitalization.

Apprentices in the concentration take specialized courses taught by experienced pastors and church-planters in the Treasuring Christ Together Network and gain hands-on experience in a church planting pastoral apprenticeship. Courses unique to the Church Planting and Revitalization concentration are:

This concentration is designed to equip men who are gifted in worship leadership and sense that this is how God is leading them to use their pastoral and artistic gifting. Courses unique to the Worship Pastor concentration are:

The missions concentration provides students sensing God’s call to long-term, cross-cultural ministry an opportunity to complete their final year of the M.Div. program at Radius International’s training center. Students must apply for the missions concentration by the end of their second year and, if accepted, will earn the credits below at the Radius training center.

Advanced Standing is a policy that grants master’s degree applicants a reduction in the total credit hours required for the M.Div. program. This is available when an applicant has successfully completed undergraduate courses that would otherwise be repeated in the graduate core curriculum. Advanced Standing is a credit waiver, not a credit transfer, and allows qualified students to potentially complete the M.Div. in less than four years.

The Cameroon extension site currently offers the Master of Divinity program. Dr. Dieudonné Tamfu coordinates the program which closely follows the format, objectives, and courses of the Minneapolis location. Bethlehem College and Seminary serves as the administrative hub of a coordinated initiative of the school, Jubilee Community Church, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Treasuring Christ Together Church Planting Network, Faith Church Linden, and hundreds of contributors and prayer partners to plant a French-speaking church in Cameroon’s capital city, Yaoundé, establish an extension of Bethlehem College and Seminary, and provide, by God’s grace, a launching site for regional church-planting and outreach to unengaged people groups.

Every degree-seeking seminary and college student receives a $10,000 Serious Joy Scholarship funded by generous givers.

Our aim is to enable students to pursue the Lord’s calling on their lives as soon after graduation as possible without the encumbrance of financial debt, which might otherwise delay their entry into full-time ministry.

*Housing assumes a one-bedroom rental.

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