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MIDWESTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE
PREPARING FOR DEDICATED HIGH SCHOOL GRADS
During the 1999 and year 2000 millennium drive, there were thousands of young junior high and high school students who dedicated their lives to serving the Lord. They are now in need of the kind of training that will help them keep their commitment. The Bible colleges that are connected with our Southern Baptist Seminaries are poised to provide that needed connection between their commitment and their fulfillment. Midwestern is one of those schools.
Midwestern Baptist College, SBC, provides both the Associate of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts degree programs. One may graduate from the two-year A.A. programs with an emphasis in divinity, Biblical studies, music, education, missions or church planting. The B.A. program majors started in 2005 with Biblical studies that could be taken in the traditional delivery format or the MACCEL program of accelerated degree completion by the mature student. All of these programs have met both the approval of the administration, faculty, board of trustees and the accrediting associations (ATIS and NCA).
In the year 2005 Midwestern Baptist College also joined hands with FUSION, an innovative ministry and leadership school that is both experiential and practical in nature. It is intended for Christian college students and recent graduates, especially designed for those young adults 18-24 years of age. Phase one of FUSION includes classroom work, intense personal discipleship and local ministry with pastors and church planting leaders in and around Kansas City. Phase two provides the choice of traveling outside North America to overseas destinations, or working with a ministry within North America. Scott Brawner, dean of students for Midwestern Baptist College, heads the FUSION program.
In addition to the above programs, Midwestern Baptist College has received faculty, administration and board approval for the addition of Christian ministry and missionary aviation majors. Under the heading of the Christian ministry B.A. program will come the emphases of evangelism, Christian education, missions and music. The school is quickly completing all the requirements for full accreditation in these new areas as well.
The campus of Midwestern Baptist Seminary and College is expanding in order to be prepared to handle larger groups of new students. The new Koehn and Myers building (North Campus) is in use now, but larger sections will soon be fully renovated and ready for use.
Business leaders in the area are very helpful in offering good-paying jobs that allow for flexible time schedules so students can take a full class load and have a full-time job as well.
Students who desire to fulfill their commitments by entering credited Bible study programs are urged to consider Midwestern Baptist College. Those who will need graduate training can remain on the campus and continue with master’s level course work…and even later may consider the doctoral programs available at Midwestern.
With the Bible college programs of the Southern Baptist seminaries, a dedicated young person can find a one-stop place for a full program of study and preparatory Christian experience. To top it off, these programs are subsidized by the Southern Baptist Convention so that students can leave school with all their bills paid and enter into their life-long ministries immediately. That is often not the case with those who choose a private school where costs are excessive, nor is it the case with those who choose a secular college where the preparation does not directly relate to the Christian calling.
I would urge pastors, deacons, teachers, parents and friends of our dedicated youth to please encourage them to consider the Bible colleges of our Southern Baptist seminaries for their first step beyond high school education. May the Lord bless you for doing so.
Jim Anderson, Dean, Midwestern Baptist College, SBC
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