Its purpose:
    The purpose of SLBC is to teach the Bible to those who need to be grounded in solid biblical teachings rather than denominational teachings and/or the teachings of liberal theologians who have denied the faith under the banners of compromise and/or unbelief.
    Its parent school, Salt Lake Baptist College, is a ministry of Bible Baptist Church of Salt Lake City, Utah, which is a non-denominational, Independent, non-Protestant Baptist Church which can trace its lineage back to the Church that Jesus started while here on earth.  Therefore, it owes no allegiance to any earthly authority or ruling body.  Christ alone is the head of Bible Baptist Church and the Bible is its only rule of faith and practice.  Baptist doctrines are not adhered to, which, unfortunately, are many and varied today, but rather Bible doctrines are adhered to.  Thus, at Bible Baptist Church and at the colleges which are ministries of it, only those doctrines taught in the scriptures are given credence and, therefore, only those same doctrines are taught from the pulpit of the Church and the podiums of the Bible colleges.

How long has it been here and its effectiveness?
    Although Salt Lake Bible College itself started in September of 2007, as an arm of Salt Lake Baptist College it draws upon the essence of that college's 22 years of existence and experience in preparing men and women for the ministry by means of solid, biblical, teachings.  The majority of students of the 22 year ministry of Salt Lake Baptist College are either pastoring or working in some sort of a supportive ministry (Sunday School teachers and/or Christian School teachers, or as pastor's or worker's wives, street preaching, etc.) or working in various outreach ministries such as street preaching, jail and prison ministries, evangelism, and revivalists winning souls and encouraging pastors and churches through holding both tent and indoor meetings.  Others are serving as home or foreign missionaries across North America and around the world.
    Some of those graduates are now perpetuating the teaching ministry of the college at the churches where they are now pastoring.  This they are accomplishing through the establishing of Bible Colleges and Bible Institutes in their churches which are accredited as extensions of Salt Lake Baptist College.  These extension campuses can now be found in 15 states and 8 foreign countries around the globe.

Credibility.
    Not only does Salt Lake Baptist College number among its graduates many pastors, workers, educators, theologians, authors, and a multitude of local church full-time and volunteer staff, it also numbers among its on-campus staff, professors with several hundred years of combined teaching and pastoring experience.  In addition it is registered as a private school with the state of Utah and it and its fulltime teaching staff are registered educators with UEN- which is the state educational agency known as the "Utah Education Network."

Lineage of educational ministry.
    Salt Lake Bible College, through use of the curriculum, experience, and expertise of its parent, Salt Lake Baptist College, can lay claim to an educational lineage extending back to 1988 and through its professors back for more than a half century.  In addition, because of the documented lineage of its founding church, it can lay claim to an educational heritage, through the teaching ministries carried out by an unbroken line of pastors and churches over the last two millennia, extending back to the Apostle John and the original Church of the supreme example of all educators, Jesus Christ himself.

Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.

Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk
Administrative Vice President
docvbk@saltlakebaptistcollege.org