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Faith Evangelical College and Seminary is an evangelical Christian college and seminary located in Tacoma, WA, USA. It features a diverse student body and faculty as well as an online degree program. It is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. Though the seminary is a private religious school, it is non-religious exempt in the State of Washington and is listed as an authorized degree-granting institution by the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board and meets the requirements and minimum educational standards established for degree-granting institutions under the Degree Authorization Act.
The seminary aims to build a community of teachers and students who seek to strengthen their Christian beliefs by exegeting and interpreting Scripture, who uphold the form of doctrine expressed in the historic creeds and confessions of orthodox Christianity. It provides instructors and facilities for undergraduate and graduate Christian education. The seminary also grants degrees supporting various types of ministry.
Approximately 250 students attend Faith Evangelical Seminary as of Spring 2011. The school employs 17 faculty members and additional administration and staff.
Faith Evangelical Seminary offers the following degree programs:
Faith Evangelical College & Seminary was founded in 1969 as Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary by Lutherans Alert-National (LAN), an organization committed to biblical inerrancy. In 1968 the LAN was commissioned to investigate possible avenues of proclaiming historic, biblical theology due to the fact that a significant part of the Lutheran church was moving toward liberalism. It eventually seemed expedient to recommend the establishment of a seminary committed to the inerrant Word of God. The Rev. Dr. R. H. Redal was called as the first president and the initial classes were held September 23, 1969 in Tacoma, Washington.
The institution established an educational outreach in the Kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific) in 1992 in conjunction with Polynesian Missions. The institution offers a combination of distance education courses and resident classes intended to help thwart "the spread of liberal theology and the proliferation of cults in that area of the world". Institution faculty members and other well-known evangelical professors travel to the South Pacific several times each year to teach and train students.
The institution has a Korean Division for the Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Master of Arts Christian Ministry (Christian Counseling concentration), Master of Arts Theological Studies (Interdisciplinary program), and Master of Divinity programs. Courses are taught in Korean and English and are offered through a local resident program.