Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Christian Service – Missions

The Department of Missions is designed to challenge and equip students to carry out the Great Commission. Great emphasis is placed on establishing local, independent Baptist churches at home and abroad. The overall purpose of our Missions program is:

• To reveal spiritual needs worldwide
• To inculcate teaching on the primacy of the local church
• To contrast teaching of Biblical Christianity with world religions
• To develop a burden for home and foreign missions
• To challenge laborers for the harvest field

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who are enrolled in our Missions program will:

1. develop a practical understanding of missions through mission survey trips,
2. interact with missionaries via the classroom,
3. observe and participate in local church missions, especially the annual Missions Conference at Tri-City Baptist Church,
4. learn in the classroom setting from active directors of mission boards and others experienced in missions, and
5. explore the practical aspects of missions such as deputation, mission boards, and supporting churches.

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.”