The Tidewater Bible College Mission

Tidewater Bible College exists to provide quality academic training in Bible, ministry and spiritual life to emerging leaders and laborers called to establish new models of community impact where they live, work and worship. We promote an approach to Christian life that prioritizes knowing God, serving the forgotten, multiplying disciples and making Him known among the unreached—at home and abroad.

The Tidewater Bible College Story

Organized in 1992 as Bible Teachers Institute, Tidewater Bible College has served hundreds of students throughout the Tidewater, Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina areas. Tidewater Bible College is currently building extension site partnerships with local churches that share this vision of quality ministry training.

Our diverse student body includes high school and college graduates, representing a variety of vocations from local pastors to homemakers. Most are first-time college students; many are the first in their families ever to attend college of any kind. Our enrollment ranges from 35-60 students each quarter. The one thing they all have in common is a love for God's word, and a passion to live it and share it with people where they live, work and worship.

Although our students represent a cross-section of denominational backgrounds and traditions, the leadership and faculty team unifies around the belief in the continuous presence and power of Christ's Spirit in His Body. Through the power of His Spirit, our staff, faculty, and students are equipped to know God passionately and to make His life-changing gospel known to people where they live, work and worship.

ABHE Status of Tidewater Bible College

Tidewater Bible College holds applicant status with the Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Biblical Higher Education, 5575 S. Semoran Blvd., Orlando, Florida, 32822, (407) 207-0808. Applicant status is a pre-membership status granted to those colleges that meet the COA-ABHE Conditions of Eligibility and that possess such qualities as may provide a basis for achieving candidate status within four years. Click here to learn more about ABHE.

Affiliations

Tidewater Bible College’s primary purpose is to provide religious training (and/or theological education), its degrees and certificates are so titled, and it is exempt from the requirement of state approval in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Tidewater Bible College is not affiliated with any institution, church, denomination, or agency bearing similar names. All such similarities are coincidental.

Equal Opportunity to Study and Work

Tidewater Bible College is a private, interdenominational, non-profit, tax exempt, 501(c)³ educational institution that does not discriminate based on sex, race, color, national origin, or age in its admissions or employment practices.

Tidewater Bible College Distinctives:

• Served More than 850 Students Since 1992.
• Affordable - Certificate, Associate, and Bachelor Degrees for $65 or less per Credit.
• Interdenominational—Representing More than 70 Local Churches.
• Diverse - Young and Old Learning Side-By-Side.
• Flexible - Catering to Night School and Weekend Learners.
• Links Study to Service Through Community-Based courses, the "Learn and Live" Approach to Training.
• Promoting Strategic Student-led Ministries in the Tidewater Region and Around the World.