Great Lakes Bible College

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Great Lakes Bible College
Other names	GLBC, GL Bible College, glbiblecollege
Motto	STUDEAMUS PROBATIONIS DEI CAUSA
Type	Private Bible college
Established	1987
Affiliations	Churches of Christ
Chair	Glen Robins
President	Immanuel Velasco
Dean	Paul Birston
Faculty	10
Location	Waterloo , ON , Canada
Campus	Urban multiple sites satellite campus
Colours	Maroon and black
Website	www.glbc.ca

Great Lakes Bible College (formerly known as the School of Bible and Missions) is a private Bible college associated with the Churches of Christ located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is accredited by the Ontario Ministry of Education as a private college.

History

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Members of Churches of Christ sought to establish a Christian junior college in the late 1940s to provide an opportunity for Christian education for the international populations of the Great Lakes basin. In 1952, high school classes and an adult Bible department were offered in Beamsville, Ontario in the Niagara Peninsula. Great Lakes Christian High School (formerly Great Lakes Christian College), a residential high school provided post-secondary Bible education (the Bible department in 1952 and 1959; the Faculty of Bible and Missions formed in 1969 and renamed in 1975 as the School of Bible and Missions).

GLBC is chartered as a degree-granting institution by the Government of Ontario under the Great Lakes Bible College Act, 1987.^[1]

In 1996, classes were moved from Beamsville, Ontario to Waterloo, Ontario. As of April 2023, Great Lakes Bible College provides classes in-person and online, both synchronously and asynchronously. Great Lakes Bible College also offers short courses in partnership with various local churches.

Programs

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Academic Programs

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Great Lakes offers a number of certificates and degrees:^[2]

Foundational Certificates^[3] (16 Credit Hours- 6 months to 2 years)
Certificate of Biblical Studies^[2] (CBS) (1 year)
Diploma of Biblical Studies (DBS)^[2] (2 years)
Bachelor of Religious Education ^[2](BRE) (3 years)
Bachelor of Theology (BTh)^[2] (4 years)

References

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↑ General Information, Great Lakes Bible College website, retrieved July 25, 2014
1 2 3 4 5 "Great Lakes Bible College". www.glbc.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
↑ "Great Lakes Bible College". www.glbc.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-14.

External links

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Post-secondary education in Ontario

Degree-granting institutions
Public universities	Algoma Brock Carleton Guelph Hearst^‡ Lakehead Laurentian/Laurentienne^* Laurier McMaster Nipissing NOSM^* OCAD U Ontario Tech Ottawa^* Queen's RMC/CMR^* Sudbury^‡ TMU Toronto Trent UOF^‡ Waterloo Western Windsor York
Private universities	Canada Christian Emmanuel FaithWay Baptist Great Lakes Heritage Huntington Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Institute for Christian Studies Master's Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Redeemer St. Philip's Talpiot Thorneloe Toronto Baptist Tyndale Yeshivas Ner Yisroel
Public universities grant degrees under the authority of an Act of the Legislative Assembly or a Royal Charter. Private universities grant degrees under the authority of an Act of the Legislative Assembly or may provide individual degree programs with the consent of the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities.
Degree programs offered^{under Ministerial Consent}	Adler Toronto CCNM CMCC Glenn Gould RCC/Yorkville
Affiliated/federated schools	Brock Concordia Guelph OAC Laurier Martin Luther Ottawa^* Saint Paul^* Toronto Knox Regis St. Augustine's St. Michael's Trinity Victoria Emmanuel Wycliffe Waterloo Conrad Grebel Renison St. Jerome's United Western Huron King's Windsor Assumption Canterbury Iona York Glendon^*
^‡French-language institution; ^*bilingual institution (English/French).^[5]

Colleges
Colleges of applied arts and technology	Algonquin^† Boréal^‡ Cambrian^† Canadore Centennial^† Confederation^† Durham Fanshawe^† Fleming^† George Brown^† Georgian^† La Cité^†‡ Lambton^† Loyalist^† Mohawk^† Niagara^† Northern St. Clair^† St. Lawrence^† Sault Seneca^†
Institutes of technology and advanced learning	Conestoga^† Humber^† Sheridan^†
Defunct	Grands-Lacs^‡
^†Degree programs offered ^‡French-language institution^[5]

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Specialist institutions	Michener Institute

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