NewsApplications for 2024-25 Classes Are NOW AVAILABLEBecoming a Student at Pilgrim Seminary
Becoming a student at Pilgrim Seminary is not difficult. We have an open enrollment policy. However, one must complete an application and receive a letter of acceptance before he or she can take courses. video lectures on Youtube Click here to view some of the course lectures included in our program.
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Introduction Welcome to Pilgrim Seminary. Our mission is to provide tuition free, high quality theological education to men and women who reside in federal and state prisons and county jails throughout the United States. Many of our courses are on prisoner tablets. Non-incarcerated persons will soon be able to access similar courses through the School of Theology at Myrtle Beach College (www.myrtlebeachcollege.org)
Pilgrim Seminary is somewhat unique in that we have an undergraduate program. There are several reasons for this. First, the traditional approach of training Christian leaders through four years of college and two or three years of graduate school has left many graduating students with paralyzing student debt while producing graduates that many churches cannot afford. By incorporating the twenty core seminary courses into an undergraduate program we save students time and money without sacrificing educational competency. Second, many pastors today and in the future will find the need to be bi-vocational in order to plant new churches or to serve the small congregations that they feel called to serve. Our program recognizes this need and provides educational opportunities in cooperation with Myrtle Beach College for those who might find themselves in such a situation. Pilgrim Seminary is an incorporated South Carolina non-profit religious institution in whose primary purpose is preparing Christian leaders to serve the church and the world. As an institution that offers only religious and theological degrees, the institution is exempt from oversight by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. The work of the seminary is overseen by a Board of Governors which is responsible for the institution's educational, operational, and fiscal integrity. Pilgrim Seminary admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to the students at the school. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school programs. |