Rosedale Bible College : Vision : Gathering Place

Cost: $60,000

Picture a place where evangelical Christians who identify with Anabaptist ideas can come together to think about how to effectively engage our post-Christian culture without becoming conformed to it.

Picture a place where believers who take the word of God seriously gather to discuss and pray about and work on building up a church that practices the "true evangelical faith" advocated by Menno Simons: a faith that not only clothes the naked and feeds the hungry, but also "manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love" and "seeks that which is lost."

That's the kind of place we want Rosedale Bible College to be.

Our goals are to:

Define 'engaged and evangelical Anabaptism.' Faculty met in the summer of 2006 to define what RBC means by these terms. The group's findings have been presented and discussed in the fall of 2006 as a part of the Symposium on Evangelical Anabaptism.
Identify and connect with the evangelical Anabaptist community. Rosedale Bible College is sponsored by churches of the Conservative Mennonite Conference (CMC). Beginning in 2006, RBC will seek to identify and initiate contact with individuals, congregations and groups beyond CMC who share an affinity with evangelical Anabaptism, offering the college as a place of connection, teaching, and discussion, and as an educational experience they can endorse and support.
Host an annual symposium on evangelical Anabaptism. Beginning in November of 2006, RBC will host an annual three-day symposium, welcoming all members of the Anabaptist and evangelical communities to gather and explore contemporary evangelical Anabaptism together. The event will feature workshops, networking opportunities, and noteworthy speakers representing various perspectives on evangelical Anabaptism.
Promote the college in Anabaptist circles. Rosedale Bible College will attempt to 'get the word out' about the college by significantly increasing its promotional efforts to Anabaptist congregations, groups and individuals.





	B E C O M E A G A T H E R I N G P L A C E Cost: $60,000 Picture a place where evangelical Christians who identify with Anabaptist ideas can come together to think about how to effectively engage our post-Christian culture without becoming conformed to it. Picture a place where believers who take the word of God seriously gather to discuss and pray about and work on building up a church that practices the "true evangelical faith" advocated by Menno Simons: a faith that not only clothes the naked and feeds the hungry, but also "manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love" and "seeks that which is lost." That's the kind of place we want Rosedale Bible College to be. Our goals are to: Define 'engaged and evangelical Anabaptism.' Faculty met in the summer of 2006 to define what RBC means by these terms. The group's findings have been presented and discussed in the fall of 2006 as a part of the Symposium on Evangelical Anabaptism. Identify and connect with the evangelical Anabaptist community. Rosedale Bible College is sponsored by churches of the Conservative Mennonite Conference (CMC). Beginning in 2006, RBC will seek to identify and initiate contact with individuals, congregations and groups beyond CMC who share an affinity with evangelical Anabaptism, offering the college as a place of connection, teaching, and discussion, and as an educational experience they can endorse and support. Host an annual symposium on evangelical Anabaptism. Beginning in November of 2006, RBC will host an annual three-day symposium, welcoming all members of the Anabaptist and evangelical communities to gather and explore contemporary evangelical Anabaptism together. The event will feature workshops, networking opportunities, and noteworthy speakers representing various perspectives on evangelical Anabaptism. Promote the college in Anabaptist circles. Rosedale Bible College will attempt to 'get the word out' about the college by significantly increasing its promotional efforts to Anabaptist congregations, groups and individuals.