Purpose
Maple Springs Baptist Bible
College and Seminary seeks to produce
Christ-centered leaders with the values,
knowledge, and skills required to fulfill the
Great Commission. We seek to transform and
prepare for ministry those with or without
previous undergraduate training in the
biblical area. We do this through a
partnership of students, faculty and churches;
academic discipline; and an affordable "open
door" admission policy permitting the
discovery, communication of and preservation
of biblical knowledge and understanding in a
unified community known as a Bible
College-Seminary. We seek to ensure each
student is grounded in a conservative,
fundamental, evangelical biblical position in
order to be an instrument of renewal and
development for the Christian and world
communities.
Philosophy
Maple Springs
Baptist Bible College and Seminary was
founded in 1986, under the leadership of Dr.
C.A. McDonald, Sr., Pastor of the Maple
Springs Baptist Church, to help provide
trained personnel for the propagation of the
Gospel. Dr. McDonald appointed Dr. Larry W.
Jordan, the Minister of Education of the Maple
Springs Baptist Church, to develop and
implement the programs required to establish
the Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and
Seminary. Dr. Jordan designed and implemented
the curriculum to prepare for the ministry
those who have had no previous undergraduate
training in the biblical area as well as those
who have completed an undergraduate degree.
The Maple
Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary is
an independent, fundamental, conservative, and
for the most part, local church oriented
Institution, meeting the need for leadership
in an ever changing society. The College and
Seminary is Baptist, both in belief and
practice. It is committed unreservedly to the
verbal-plenary view of inspiration believing
every Word of the Bible to be the inspired
Word of God. We are committed to the defense
and proclamation of the Scriptures, upon which
all true education has its foundation.
Recognition
The Maple Springs Baptist
Bible College and Seminary holds
full-accredited status with the Transnational
Association of Christian Colleges and Schools
(TRACS), a national accrediting agency
recognized by the United States Department of
Education.
The Maple Springs Baptist Bible
College and Seminary is a Higher Education
member school of the Evangelical Training
Association and is authorized to grant ETA
certificates and diplomas.
By authorization of the
Maryland State Higher Education Commission,
the Seminary grants the Master of Arts in
Biblical Studies, the Master of Arts in
Christian Counseling, the Master of Arts in
Church Administration, the Master of Religious
Education, the Master of Divinity, and the
Doctor of Ministry.
Accreditation
Maple Springs
Baptist Bible College and
Seminary is accredited by the
Transnational
Association of Christian Colleges and
Schools (TRACS)
as a Category I
institution offering Certificates and Associate
Degrees; as a Category II institution offering
Bachelor's degrees; as a Category III institution
offering Master’s degrees; and as a Category IV
institution offering Doctoral degrees. The
Transnational Association of Christian Colleges
and Schools is listed by the
United States
Department of Education
as a
nationally recognized institutional accrediting
agency serving Christian undergraduate and
graduate institutions of higher learning. TRACS
offices are located in Forest, Virginia and may be
contacted by writing to TRACS, P.O. Box 328,
Forest, VA 24551 or calling
(804)
525-9539.
Word
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