Over 130 students have taken classes in the GES online seminary during the past three years. Last semester over sixty students took classes, with many taking two or more.
The seminary’s purpose is to train Christians for ministry, including senior pastor, associate pastor, youth pastor, elder, deacon, women’s leader, Sunday school teacher, Bible study teacher, missionary, and Christian educator (high school, college, seminary).
We offer a three-year program that leads to an unaccredited Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree. All students must write an acceptable forty- to sixty-page master’s thesis in order to graduate.
We have three types of students: 1) students with bachelor’s degrees aiming to get an M.Div., 2) students with bachelor’s degrees who are taking classes simply for enrichment, and 3) students without college degrees who are admitted on a probationary basis either as enrichment students or to complete the program and receive a certificate of theology.
For more information about the seminary, see here.
Here is the lineup of Fall classes:
Applications due by July 21.
Greek classes (14 weeks) start week of August 3.
All other classes (12 weeks) start week of August 17.
Semester ends week of November 2 (November 9 for Greek).
Year One Courses
TH 101 Soteriology, Winston, 9 AM & 5 PM Monday, 9 AM Tuesday
NT 101 (1st Year Greek) Badger, 9 AM & 7 PM Thursday
BIB 101 Old Testament Survey 1, Pierce, 10 AM & 8 PM Monday
PM 101 Intro to Pastoral Ministry, Janssen, 8 PM Thursday, 10AM Friday
Year Two Courses
TH 103 Theo Prop/Christology/Pneumatology, Badger, 9 AM/7 PM Tues
NT 103 (2nd Yr Greek) Exegesis of 1-3 John, Wyant, 9 AM & 6 PM Friday
BIB 104 Eternal Rewards, Yates, 9 AM & 6PM Wednesday
BIB Hermeneutics 105, Lewis,10 AM & 6PM Thursday
Year Three Courses
TH 105 Angelology/Anthropology, Sterling, 6 PM Tuesday, 9 AM Friday
NT 105 Exegesis of James, Wilkin, 11 AM & 6 PM Tuesday
PM 103 Pastoral Ministry Practicum (students get mentors)
Thesis Research Various (student asks faculty to advise)
Electives
Bible Study Using Logos Bible Software, Fiess, 10AM & 8PM Wednesday
The first class is free, and all subsequent classes are free as long as the student maintains a B average. While classes are free to students, they are not free to GES; we pay our faculty and teaching assistants well. Classes are offered free to students because our donors strongly believe in our school and give so that we can provide training without charging tuition. Our partners believe it is vital that we train up the next generation of Christian leaders.
Most classes require three to five hours of work a week, including one hour on Zoom, an hour or so of reading, watching a thirty- to forty-five-minute lecture in advance of the Zoom session, and writing short papers. Students must also take a semester exam.
If one or more of the classes interests you, email us at classes@faithalone.org by July 21.
Taking our seminary classes will help you help others to keep grace in focus.
