Baptist College of America Catalog

BAPTIST COLLEGE of AMERICA

Resident and Correspondence Study Programs
Established 1993

BAPTIST COLLEGE OF AMERICA
& SEMINARY

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INTRODUCTION

Dear Prospective Student:

In 1982, I was a Navy pilot flying A-7 Corsairs off of the USS Forrestal and had just surrendered to full-time Christian service. My pastor asked me to pray about joining his staff as an assistant pastor. I resigned my commission in the Navy and became an assistant pastor in 1983 with no Bible training at all! Though I had a B.S. degree in Aerospace Technology from a state university, I felt somewhat at a loss teaching the Bible. As the principal of a Christian school, I was unable to attend a local Bible college because it only offered daytime classes. I began attending a Baptist seminary in the area which was "supposed to be" the most conservative Southern Baptist seminary in the country. I attended this seminary while working on a Masters degree and felt frustrated because the professors constantly degraded the King James Bible and ridiculed Fundamentalists. During this time of frustration, I was introduced to a Bible correspondent program that offered graduate studies. I quit the traditional seminary and enrolled in the correspondence department and was greatly impressed with the quality of its courses. I completed a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry through that school and actually felt that I had "earned" these degrees because of the intensity of the required work. This was not the first time that I had been exposed to correspondence studies. When I was undergoing Naval Pilot training, a large portion of the ground school (fuel, hydraulic, power plant systems, etc.) was conducted through correspondence materials. In 1988, I became the pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Kokomo, Indiana and once again felt the desire to expand my education. In 1990, I began driving 125 miles one way to a local Bible college. It took 2 years and 24,000 miles to finally walk the aisle with a diploma in hand. At the same graduation service, I also received an honorary doctorate.

Baptist College of America is the result of those frustrating days of wanting to attend a Bible college and not being able to because of my duties in the ministry and those difficult days of driving five hours round trip through snow

storms and weariness, trying to further my education while pastoring a church at the same time. BCA is a Bible college that offers courses that are applied in a soul winning, separated Baptist church while also offering the same courses and degrees through correspondence. It is my desire to help the preacher, evangelist, missionary or full-time Christian worker who is already laboring in the field to further their education without their needing to leave their work. Also, it is my desire to allow Sunday school teachers, bus workers, and lay people in general to better prepare themselves for serving the Lord in the various ministries of their own local church.

Dr. Mike Holloway

President and Founder

OUR FACULTY

BCA offers a unique opportunity for students to glean from the works of the greatest preachers and Christian servants who ever lived! Instead of being subjected to changing philosophies and untested theories by men who have never pastored, BCA's curriculum comes from the vaults of the giants of our faith! Our unique curriculum is available through resident or correspondent programs.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

There is a very significant philosophical difference between BCA and other Bible colleges of which one needs to be made aware.

(1) We offer degrees and diplomas through our correspondent division because we believe that it is the Scriptural responsibility of the local church to teach and train their own people. Therefore, there is not always a need for a married couple to go away to a distant college if they are already actively involved in a vibrant soul winning, separated church nor is it a mandate from heaven for every solid, mature young person to leave a good local church while preparing themselves for God's service. BCA offers the best of both worlds, depending upon the needs of the individual and the desires of the parents and pastor.

(2) Our "Religious Education" program doesn't allow one to "specialize" in elementary or secondary education for the simple reason that we are training servants, not specialists! The typical graduate needs the training and flexibility to teach teenagers or first graders, and MOST majoring in secondary education are failures at teaching elementary students!

(3) Our "Ministry" program offers all preachers the same basic preparation, with minimal emphasis on a specific major. The reason is because there is no difference between the training of a pastor and an assistant pastor! Both need to learn how to follow and to serve, and both need the same teaching in the various ministries. Missionaries also need to learn that if door-to-door soul winning worked for Paul, it will work anywhere in the world because it is God's formula for building His church and not an "American phenomenon!"

(4) Our "Marriage and Motherhood" program is geared for preparing our ladies to be good wives to husbands in the ministry. We do not encourage ladies to go to the mission field as a single person, but rather to be willing to go if and when God calls their husband! This program helps the lady understand her place in the ministry and how to be a better helpmeet to God's man, whether he be a pastor, assistant, missionary, evangelist, deacon, Sunday school teacher, or bus captain. This program offers the most electives, thus enabling a single lady who feels drawn to the mission field to prepare herself academically in missions and Christian education without the stigma that she is going there to be a church planter.

Our philosophy concerning standards and separation is Scriptural and conservative. In an attempt to stem the tide of worldliness, our campus is characterized by ...

A MODEST DRESS CODE

We believe in an old-fashioned dress code that some may consider too strict. Skirts above the knees are not allowed. Men must wear neckties to class and must have short haircuts. Young ladies may not wear shorts or slacks.

OLD FASHIONED DISCIPLINE

Young men and young ladies may not date alone in cars. Absolutely no hand holding or other intimacies are allowed between the sexes. Student insubordination is absolutely forbidden.

A SOUL WINNING ATMOSPHERE

All faculty, staff, and students are required to go soul winning weekly. Students should participate in the evangelistic ministry of their church. All students are required to visit on a bus route or be faithfully involved in the soul winning program of their church.

A FUNDAMENTALIST EMPHASIS

We are fundamentalists and use the term proudly. We believe in a literal Hell which has fire and brimstone, a literal Heaven, and the premillennial coming of Jesus Christ; and we stress the fundamentals of the faith.

A SEPARATIST POSITION

Absolutely no drinking, smoking, or dancing is allowed. No student is allowed to attend Hollywood movies, play cards, or participate in other questionable amusements. We do not fellowship with liberals and take a strict separatist stand from the world and apostasy.

AN EMPHASIS ON CULTURE

We believe in students learning the arts, the classics, and practicing propriety. We oppose the paganistic, barbaric humanism that prevails on many campuses. We believe in refinement, dignity, courtesy, proper manners, and Christian grace.

AN EMPHASIS ON THE PRACTICAL

We blend the finest of scholarship with the best practical teaching possible. We teach not only what to do, but how to do it. Preacher boys are taught how to start churches, how to build buildings, how to borrow money from lending institutions, how to raise money and adopt a budget, and how to organize, operate, and perpetuate a New Testament church.

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