Bachelor of Theology (Children's & Family Ministry)

Classes over the course of the diploma provide an extensive approach to learning and training. Core to the program, you will take Bible as a Story, which explains the impact of the Bible’s big picture metanarrative in your first semester. In your second semester, Teaching Methods & Theories of Learning will help you teach and apply the Bible to children in practical and engaging ways. Upper year courses like Administration of Children’s & Family Ministry and Curriculum Design will equip you with the skills you need to successfully lead in a ministry context. Creative, engaging, and interactive are some of the words that describe the environment that is created by the professors. More than just dispensing information, Vanguard attempts to help students develop critical thinking, wrestling through the scriptures and establishing an approach that reflects those biblical values. As one grad stated, ‘Vanguard cannot teach you everything you need to know but it will teach you the questions that need to be asked.

The Vanguard College graduate will be:

Diligent in studying and integrating the Word of God.

Equipped to exercise their ministry gifts and abilities.

Prepared to minister within the culture, according to Scripture.

Creatively influencing their world for Christ.

Empowered to minister in the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

Showing evidence of the fruit of the Spirit.

Equipping and mobilizing others for growth and service through the community.

Trustworthy servants, leading with strength and character.