Simmons College of Kentucky seeks to develop its core values in its students through the following goals:
• Interpret and apply accurately the biblical message to people in contemporary settings.
• Promulgate a biblical worldview through consistent discipleship and careful reflection and expression.
• Have the capacity to be change-agents in their communities and empower the poor to achieve their potential as persons created in the image of God.
• Have the ability to cultivate healthy, evangelistic ministries and churches.
• Have the desire to be lifelong learners to stay abreast of innovative approaches to ministry.
Our core values express who we are and what we value and endeavor to pass on to our students at Simmons College of Kentucky. As a historic African American Baptist college we value . . .
• Our confidence in the sole sufficiency of Scripture as God’s written Word.
• Our African American Baptist heritage, rooted in a confessional expression of evangelical Christianity
• Our confidence as Baptists in the local church as God’s ordaine instrument to advance his kingdom through the conscientious use of one’s spiritual gift(s).
• The necessity to empower the poor with faith, hope, and life skills to succeed
• Our responsibility as an institution of Christian higher education to develop excellence in character and ministry, to promote methodological innovation in ministry, and to inculcate a lifelong desire for learning
• The necessity to commit to the eradication of the causes of oppression and injustice through an all-empowering biblical perspective.
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