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Requirements for Success At Grace Theological Seminary
GOD IS FIRST AND FOREMOST
DEMONSTRATE COURAGE AND RESILENCE
GOD IS FIRST AND FOREMOST
First and foremost you must have a faith-filled relationship with God.
STAY MOTIVATED
DEMONSTRATE COURAGE AND RESILENCE
GOD IS FIRST AND FOREMOST
You must be motivated to experience the fruitful spiritual growth brought forth by the Holy Spirit.
DEMONSTRATE COURAGE AND RESILENCE
DEMONSTRATE COURAGE AND RESILENCE
WELCOME GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE
You will learn to rely upon God's strengths and your resilience while answering your call to ministry.
WELCOME GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE
WELCOME GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE
WELCOME GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE
You will learn to work in concert with the call to ministry that you have received from the Holy Spirit.
COMMIT TO YOUR EDUCATION
WELCOME GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE
BE A GOOD PEER, FRIEND, AND COLLEAGUE
You must be dedicated to your education. Prepare to become a committed scholar. Expect to study and to serve while in seminary.
BE A GOOD PEER, FRIEND, AND COLLEAGUE
WELCOME GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE
BE A GOOD PEER, FRIEND, AND COLLEAGUE
In your seminary journey at Grace Theological Seminary you will study, minister, and learn ways of living in globally-based, multidenominational, multicultural communities. Just as the early church was planted , nourished, and grew in many diverse communities, our faculty and students are also from diverse religious, racial, ethnic, economic, and gender identifying communities. We welcome diversity.
WHO SHOULD APPLY? THOSE WHO WISH TO SERVE IN GOD'S VINEYARD.
If you feel called to serve God and God's creation through Sacred Activism and Social Justice ministries, and are ready to enroll in an ecumenical seminary that is multidenominational, multicultural, multiracial, and welcoming, Grace Theological Seminary may be for you.
WHAT DO WE LOOK FOR IN YOU?
- Love and respect for God
- Love and respect for humankind
- Love and respect for nature
- A respectful and joyful welcome of receptive ecumenism
- A respectful and joyful acceptance for the gifts of education
- Honesty, Integrity, Sound-Judgment, Compassion, Courage, Gratitude
DO YOU ACCEPT EVERY APPLICANT?
No, We Do Not.
- You must pass our two-step interview process. It is designed to bring out the best in the person who has chosen to answer his/her calling by the Holy Spirit to God's service. At Grace Theological Seminary, we are faith-filled, educated, progressive, tough, affirming, and joyful servants in God's vineyard. We look forward to getting into Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble.
- You must embrace the importance of faith and courage as did St. Grace of Saragossa, St. Oscar Romero, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Rev. Anna Murray, Pastor John Lewis, Dr. Jon Wingaards, Archbishop Carl Bean, Sister Harriet Tubman, and St. Dorothy Day...
- Your life must reflect a love for God , intelligence, motivation, tenacity, courage, compassion, joy, self-respect, and self-discipline.
Applicants who do not have a degree may be admitted, however, will be required to take additional courses as determined.
DO YOU HAVE AN EXPERENCED FACULTY? Are They Theologians?
Yes, we do, and Yes, they are!!
You will have the guidance and support of our large, multicultural, multidenominational, and very experienced faculty. You can safely answer your call to ministry among committed, compassionate, highly educated teachers, role-models, and mentors.
Are You An Online Program?
We are a Hybrid seminary.
We have a strong digital component so that wherever you are you may attend livestream lectures, talk with classmates, attend office hours with your professors, study in the seminary library, have long theological discussions over meals with your peers while in different states and countries, and much more.
At the same time we offer face-to-face teaching and training seminars in which our Liturgical Music seminarians learn to sing in private and public settings in their local communities, our Pastoral Ministry seminarians learn to serve in local congregational ministries, our Chaplain seminarians serve in local community settings, prisons, and healthcare facilites, and our Pastoral Counselors seminarians listen and guide individuals and families online with caring and compassion. All externships, internships, and training seminars are supervised
by experienced Faculty.
With which Faith are you associated?
Grace Theological Seminary is Ecumenical. We are progressive and multi-faith. We honor the final discourse of Jesus - John 17: 21 Our diverse faculty are multinational, multifaith, multidenominational, multiage, multirace and welcoming of Interreligious dialogue.
The Church of the EvangeL, UCC
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York
Grace Theological Seminary thanks the Church of the Evangel Congregational UCC, for permitting St. Grace Church to nest in their beautiful Church for our worship services.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York
The Church of the Evangel Congregational UCC is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is 115 years old and is one of the most beautiful churches in the state of New York.