Association Free Lutheran Bible School and Seminary

Association Free Lutheran Bible School
Established	1966 in Plymouth, Minnesota
Dean	Pastor Joel Rolf
Location	Plymouth^[1], Minnesota
Website	http://www.aflbs.org/
tuition, $9,300/year ^[2]

Association Free Lutheran Bible School and the Association of Free Lutheran Theological Seminary are located in Plymouth, Minnesota at the national offices of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations.

Bible School

AFLBS is a two-year college-level institution. It was established in 1966 by the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations. AFLC church founders sought to establish education for young Christians in the Bible before college, in efforts to help believers to "win, build and equip". Currently the enrollment is approximately 120 students. AFLBS students have attended from outside of the United States including Canada, Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Norway, Haiti, Bolivia and Brazil. The Bible school is a member of the Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA).

The Bible School has five purposes:

To bring students into and establish them in the assurance of personal salvation in Christ Jesus through the study of God’s Word.
To prepare students to face a secular society in school and community by grounding them in the Word of God.
To help students embrace the truth as found in the Bible, and to reject the theological errors so prevalent today.
To challenge students to seek God’s will in all personal and vocational choices and to pursue the Great Commission of Jesus Christ as given in Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.”
To equip students to serve in free and living Lutheran congregations.

Deans of the AFLBS

Name	Term
John Strand	1966-1967
Richard Snipstead	1968-1974
Ken Moland	1975-1984
Donald Greven	1985-1996
James L. Johnson	1996-2006
Joel Rolf	2006-

Seminary

The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations established a theological seminary committed to historic Lutheran theology. The seminary opened in September 1964. The Free Lutheran Seminary only admits men into the school. Student attended seminary classes for 3 years. The fourth year is an internship at one of the AFLC churches.

As an institution of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, the Seminary believes and teaches that:

The Bible is the divinely inspired, revealed, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God and as such is trustworthy in all its parts and is the supreme and only rule of faith and practice. The Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, and Luther's Small Catechism are faithful expositions of the truths of Scripture. The local congregation is the right form of the Kingdom of God on earth. It teaches there is no authority above itself except the Word of God and the Spirit of God.

Deans of the AFLTS

Name	Term
Dr. Iver B. Olson	1965-1971
Rev. Amos O. Dyrud	1971-1981
Dr. Francis W. Monseth	1981-2013
Rev. Robert L. Lee	2013-2015
Rev. Wade Mobley	2015-

Accreditation

The Association Free Lutheran Theological Seminary and Bible School is a member of the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS), having been awarded Candidate Status as a Category III institution by the TRACS Accreditation Commission on October 21, 2014. This status is effective for up to a period of five years. TRACS is recognized by the United States Department of Education, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE).^[3]

References

↑ "AFLBS Contact Information". AFLBS. Archived from the original on 12 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
↑ "AFLBS Overview". AFLBS. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
↑ "Accreditation". Association Free Lutheran Bible School & Seminary.

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Colleges and universities in Minnesota

Public institutions	Bemidji State Metropolitan State Minnesota State, Mankato MSU Moorhead St. Cloud State Southwest Minnesota State UMC UMD UMM UMR University of Minnesota Winona State

Private institutions	Adler AFLBS Augsburg Bethany Lutheran Bethel Carleton Concordia (Moorhead) Concordia (St. Paul) Crossroads Crown Dunwoody Gustavus Adolphus Hamline Luther Seminary Macalester Minneapolis College of Art and Design Martin Luther North Central Northwestern Northwestern Health Sciences Oak Hills St. Benedict/St. John's St. Catherine Saint Mary's St. Olaf St. Scholastica St. Thomas

Community/technical colleges	Alexandria TC Anoka TC Anoka-Ramsey CC Central Lakes Century Dakota County TC Fond du Lac Tribal CC Hennepin TC Hibbing CC Inver Hills CC Itasca CC Lake Superior Leech Lake Tribal Mesabi Range CTC Minneapolis CTC MSC-Southeast Technical Minnesota State CTC Minnesota West CTC Normandale CC North Hennepin CC Northland CTC Pine TC Rainy River CC Red Lake Nation CC Riverland CC Rochester CTC St. Cloud TCC Saint Paul CTC South Central Vermilion CC White Earth Tribal CC

Coordinates: 45°00′55.5″N 93°25′04.6″W / 45.015417°N 93.417944°W / 45.015417; -93.417944

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