Bethel Seminary
Bethel Seminary San Diego History
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In 1977, Bethel Seminary broadened its ministry and opened a campus in San Diego, Calif. Using the facilities at College Avenue Baptist Church, Bethel Seminary San Diego began offering courses that would lead students to degrees in the Master of Arts (Theological Studies), the Master of Arts in Christian Education, the Master of Divinity, and the Master of Arts in Marital and Family Therapy.
San Diego was chosen as the seminary’s location because it is a community of ethnic diversity, burgeoning growth, enormous spiritual need, and a large concentration of military personnel—factors offering unlimited opportunities for intercultural ministry experience. Proximity to Mexico offers another opportunity for cross-cultural ministry experience.
In February 1990, Bethel Seminary San Diego moved into a newly completed $2 million seminary building that houses offices, classrooms, a student center, and expanded library facilities with more than 80,000 volumes.
The library, which has increased in size by about 4,000 books annually, also includes back issues of more than 1,200 periodical titles.