Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Christian Service – Church Music

The Church Music program exists to equip leaders who glorify God through their service in music ministry. For all students, the program offers opportunity to develop a Biblical view of music and to foster their aesthetic sensibilities through enriching musical and cultural experiences.

Proficiencies include: Voice, Piano, Orchestral Instrument, or Composition

Program Learning Outcomes

Through the Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Christian Service – Church Music program, IBCS seeks to:

1. Instill knowledge, discernment, and wisdom so that the IBCS student may be able to critically read, write, and reason within a culturally and philosophically diverse society.
2. Cultivate a genuine love for God and mankind through a dependent relationship with the Holy Spirit that demonstrates itself by living and ministering like Christ daily.
3. Prepare disciples to be theologically committed and culturally conversant while engaging, evangelizing, and educating others.
4. Disciple Christian musicians who
   1. 1. demonstrate technical fluency, expressiveness, and professionalism in musical performance.
      2. evaluate music from a broad-based knowledge of musical styles, literature, history, and theory.
      3. communicate effectively a Biblical approach to music in both personal and church life settings.
      4. facilitate individual and corporate worship.

Department Head

Myles Yarnell

“Since graduating from IBCS, I have completed a ten-week internship with Pastor Mike Redick in Southeast Asia. In August of 2015, I also married my beautiful wife, Mariah. I began working as the youth director at Victory Baptist Church in Montrose, Colorado, at the beginning of 2016, and have been able to take a few teens with me back the to the mission field in Southeast Asia. As a youth director, I use the training I received from IBCS on a daily basis. I plan, prepare, and teach Sunday School to the senior high class, preach Wednesday nights, give a once a month challenge for our Sunday night teen activity, give challenges for two or more activities a month, and preach in chapels at our local Christian school. Also, I counsel and have multiple weekly Bible studies with the teens. I am constantly reflecting back to the training and mentoring IBCS gave me.”