Alabama now has three more New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) extension centers, thanks to approval granted from NOBTS trustees during their fall meeting Oct. 8.
Forest Lake Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, and First Baptist Church, Rainsville, will now host undergraduate and graduate classes. Heritage Bible College in Huntsville also was approved as a graduate extension center (see story, page 8).
The new sites join existing centers at The Church at Brook Hills, Birmingham, and Heritage Baptist Church, Montgomery, bringing the state’s total to five.
In the same meeting, NOBTS trustees approved an initiative to launch four new fully-online degrees, new degrees in biblical archaeology and chaplaincy and four certificate teaching sites in Georgia and Louisiana.
NOBTS will seek approval from the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada for a fully-online master of divinity, master of arts in Christian education, master of arts in apologetics and master of missiology.
Three other online degrees — master of theological studies, master of arts (theology) and master of arts (biblical studies) — became available for enrollment in spring 2013.
The two other new degrees — archaeology and chaplaincy —will combine traditional, in-person instruction and opportunities to gain real-world experience.
The master of arts degree in biblical archaeology approved by trustees flows out of the seminary’s ongoing archaeological excavation of the Gezer water system in Israel.
The new chaplaincy specialization for the master of divinity program is designed to prepare students for military, hospital, industrial or police chaplaincy.
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