INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE COLLEGE
THE OVERALL PICTURE OF THE COLLEGE
Church-Based Ministry Training
This church-based institute with spirit-filled staff offers aggressive ministry training for thorough equipping of Christian leadership. We emphasize balanced doctrine, servanthood, leadership, character development and developing a biblical global perspective.
Grace Life Bible College is a place to train men and women called to full-time ministry and those interested in becoming better equipped to serve their local church.
We offer academic excellence and methods that will train you to maximize your leadership skills and attitude to reach your God-given potential.
Administration
The Academic Dean of the Bible Institute may have an orientation meeting for all new students or he may give you individual orientation. Your orientation will provide needed and beneficial information about many of the procedures, services and opportunities in your Bible College.
Faculty and Staff
Bible school would like to employ full-time personnel, if we had sufficient money and the personnel available. But realistically speaking, you may find few full-time teachers in your school. Many teachers are also pastors, as well as lay ministers in full-time secular work. Often the Bible College could not survive without the dedicated efforts of part-time teachers. Most come and serve as volunteers to work of God.
Student Body Organizations and Activities
The student body president or representative, he/she is the one to inform you of school organizations and activities. You will want to know what student organizations are in the school, what activities are available and how you may be involved.
Academic Practices and Procedures
The Academic Dean is responsible for the scheduling of courses. Although the Academic Dean wants to know what courses you prefer to take, you need to remember that he has to consider all courses, all students and courses they need, as well as all teacher schedules, etc. Therefore, there will be times when you may not get your preference of courses or schedule.
You will have questions arise during the term. Your school Student Handbook is a good resource for many questions you may have. If after referring to it you do not find the answer to your question, do not hesitate to approach your Academic Dean.
Relationships with Church and Community
Those who are called by the Lord to ministry are equally called to be a reflection of His character in both word and deed. A number of requirements and expectations are placed upon Bible school students by both the church and the community. The successful student should be aware of and observe these with diligence. You will want to be an example in both church attendance and in the paying of your tithes. Guard your reputation in the community by maintaining your integrity in financial and other community matters.
Accountability
We are a non-denominational, Bible-based, spirit-filled Institute. Our school is accountable to a Board of Directors and a panel of spiritual elders through our local church, Grace Life Evangelical Church and few others from Grace Life World Outreach.
Introduction To The Bible College
God bless you for responding to His call. What a tremendous privilege and responsibility you have, a high calling--training for the work of the ministry. You are helping to fulfil your call by becoming equipped for present and future ministries.
In this first chapter we want to provide an overview of orientation information. Your Academic Dean may be the one to personally acquaint you with this information or he may request that you attend an orientation.
The Student Handbook is designed to help familiarize the student with Bible school life. It will tell the student what he can expect of the Institute and what the Institute expects of him as he seeks to prepare himself for Christian ministry.
General student conduct is governed by the ideals and standards of the school as stated in the Student Handbook. It serves as a guide to develop lifestyles, ideals, and standards consistent with the high calling of the ministry. Each student should seek to develop these ideals and standards of conduct while he is enrolled in Institute, whether he is on the campus, away or online.
History, Purpose, and Development of the School
Grace Life Bible College was established to offer Bible based courses that would equip Ministers, Ministries and Churches to be effective in the areas of their callings. The school came into being when we get constrained by the love of God towards the dying world from the lack of knowledge. The vision of its founder is to reach all corners of the world with the gospel of the Kingdom of God; by discovering that he cannot achieve it alone he established the college to equip more workmen ships who are called and willing to obey to the Great Commission. The school is developing according to the will of God. Now we are internationally, we now have Campuses in other Countries and we pray for more.
Grace Life Evangelical Church from 2018 is the mother and sponsoring organization of the Institute. It is not the desire of the Church to create a denominational structure but rather a network, working between denominations, churches, organizations, and nations to raise up laborers for worldwide spiritual harvest. It is to this purpose that Grace Life Bible College is dedicated, to recruit, train, motivate, and mobilize a network of international Ministers which is now a board we call Grace Life World Outreach.
Grace Life Bible College was conceived by the Holy Spirit in answer to a cry from the harvest fields of the world for materials geared for training the average layman, ministers, organization leaders etc. The Institute is birthing a vision designed to move laymen from vision to reality. The curriculum takes students beyond teaching to training where participation is required. The participation to which students are challenged is that of spiritual reproduction. Jesus final command was to reproduce spiritually (Matthew 23:19-20).
Grace Life Bible College is not as inclusive as a traditional BibleCollege because it eliminates materials not directly related to spiritual growth and productivity. We are not in competition with the traditional Bible Institute structure but our training is for lay men and women who do not have opportunities, educationally and/or financially, for such training.
Grace Life Bible College equips students with creative Bible study skills to enable continued study of Scriptures following basic course training. But the primary focus of Institute training is teaching what Jesus taught to move men from observation to demonstration of the power of God.
Mission Statement of the School
The vision and purpose of Grace Life Bible College is to equip the saints for ministry through timely, cost-effective training. We desire to produce a mighty army of men and women who are prepared to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through vision and spiritual preparation of the heart, and training in the Word of God, its principles and methods.
