VISION STATEMENT

WINNING LIFE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (WLTS) envisions an California  American educational System in which candidates, Church Leaders, the youth, Missionaries and foreign-based students are trained in Christian Theological skill- sets so that they are equipped with employable dexterities used for the benefit of California, America, and the World societies. These include addressing challenges, opportunities in the service of God, helping Humanity and efficiency for individuals and communities through academic, intellectual, and standard research-base, meeting the challenges of the 21st Century.  We idealize the holistic human development, goodwill to society, total commitment to God, and helping graduates discover their potentials and un-locking prosperous destinies of our era.

MISSION STATEMENT

To provide outstanding performance in education by equipping the youth and leaders with a diverse, highly global theological, academic-based global society, to become researchers and practitioners: WLTS will  engage in standard Educational,  research, and creative activities that engender new knowledge and applications for effective practice, fostered on interdisciplinary approaches; to address theological challenges, to meet the complex foreign-based students’ needs of society through public and professional service. It is to strengthen the leadership-base of Christian Theological Seminaries, Universities and Para- ecclesiastical organizations.

Our mission is to train graduate scholars to wield the intellectual dexterity to become authors, leaders, and Seminary and college professors. It is to sharpen the skills of all students, and leaders to be intellectually prepared to function as scholars in communities, colleges, seminaries and universities as 21st Century communities and societal leaders. It is to also train our students think critically, to be productive in their ministries and businesses and positively influence the 21st Century flock to unlock their prosperous destinies.

VALUES

1. Honesty, integrity, hard-working, trustworthiness, accommodating, dependable, application of wisdom, maturity, faith, hope, love, service to humanity, service to God, enhancement of theological Education, improvements of academic standards, right application of Theological knowledge, Academic impetus, right spiritual momentum, love for oneself, love for one’s neighbor, and business 

Prosperity.

1. Higher standard Theological Education
2. Application of Theological Research to 21st Century Business Ethics
3. Application of Critical Thinking to augment Church Planting, Church Growth and business development.
4. The right caliber of Professors to enhance Institutional development
5. Right critical and constructive administrative staff to promote our programs and businesses to the global world.
6. Application of Holiness, righteousness, and love to theological oriented institutions and businesses.
7. Providing quality and affordable theological Education to students, prospective candidates, pastors, Church leaders in the US and Internationally.
8. Application of theological research to enhance healthy Christian families, Good and godly centered parenting, and sound doctrinal impartation to 21st century Flock.
9. To Train our students to be “primus inter pares” (First among equals). First among their peers in academics, in ministry, in business, in publication, in research, in Evangelism, and in information acquisition.

OBJECTIVES

EDUCATION

A. Goal: Educate students at the under-graduate professional and postgraduate levels to provide theological leadership, anointed preachers, evangelistic services and products to a religious cosmopolitan society.

1. Support within required components of the undergraduate and graduate programs, theories, principles, and practices that form the foundation of Theological studies and knowledge management and their relationship to business development, using biblical theories and comprehension for Church growth and development.
2. Offer students a variety of online elective courses to provide career-oriented concentrations within Theological Education, and Church management.
3. Lecture students to interpret research finding and apply acquired knowledge in ecclesiastical settings within a diverse global context.
4. Provide student advising that promotes informed program choice. Students are advised, mentored to select the right programs that fit succinctly into their ministries and businesses.
5. Advocate academic excellence through course work and by example professional attitudes concerning probity, Church Ethics, professional ethics, intellectual freedom, and access to standard theological Education in an autonomous civilization.
6. Encourage participation in professional activities, ecclesiastical participation, and Para-theological organizations participation at community, seminary, university, state, national, and international levels.
7. Promote professional advancement throughout student contribution to seminary and university planning and supremacy.
8. Assimilate theological theories, principles, techniques, and applications of research within all apparatus of the core and elective curriculum.
9. Collaborate with other academic institutions to enhance standards within communities and societies.
10. Deliver courses to students throughout California, America, and intercontinental.

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B. Goal: Provide a broadly-based Theological education at the undergraduate and graduate levels that will prepare students for careers in organizational settings in an institutionally-based, ecclesiastical oriented settings, pluralistic, worldwide grassroots and higher societies.

1. Educate students and prospective candidates on the theories, principles, and practices that form the basis for leadership and Theological studies.
2. Disseminate comprehension and reverence for Theological Studies, publication, intellectual freedom, and other interrelated issues in the scholarly World.
3. Grant access to relevant electives that enrich the academic and critical thinking of foundational components of all programs and degrees.
4. Train students to work in theological intensive environments by enabling them to acquire the skill of research Methodology, preaching, and teaching the word of God.
5. Offer student advising that paves the way for timely and quick degree completion.
6. Fashion the realistic and industrious use of theological knowledge in research and college teaching.
7. Petition for and integrate into development processes that allow input and feedback from diverse constituencies on programs, courses, skills, and attitudes needed by students at the undergraduate and graduate degree levels

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GOAL C: RESEARCH: Participate in and promote research, scholarship, and creative activities.

1. Conduct and direct research, and other creative activities as students are mentored to engage in the production of standard theses and dissertations, and augmentation of intellectual freedom,
2. Publish and disseminate findings of research, scholarship, and creative work.
3. Solicit funding from philanthropic organizations for research, scholarship, and creative activities.
4. Engage in interdisciplinary research approaches to the solution of theological problems in California, America, and international.

GOAL D: SERVICE: Provide leadership, consultation, and guidance to the professional/information communities.

1. Function in leadership roles for professional activities and organizations.
2. Provide expert-opinion support to meet the needs of Theological Education.
3. Support alumni in their professional development through such activities as recommendation letters, advisement, communication, and an alumni association.
4. Provide specialized assistance for development of theological research and Church planting in America, California and the pluralistic society.

Goal F: Contribute to Seminary governance by participation at the departmental, community, and Seminary levels.

1. Smooth the progress of faculty participation in Seminary decision-making and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of established governance structures.
2. Engage in actively opportunities for service through election or appointment of faculty to Winning Life Theological Seminary.
3. Engage in actively opportunities for service through election or appointment of faculty to Winning Life Theological Seminary.
4. Participate as appropriate in the policy structures of other units in the University.

GOAL G: Upon completion of the program, the student will be able to:

1. Interpret, evaluate, and advocate the theories, principles, and practices that form the foundation of theological studies and research.
2. Interpret, evaluate and promote the use of theological theories in the business world.
3. Demonstrate professional attitudes regarding scholarship, professional ethics, intellectual freedom, and access to information in a democratic society.
4. Design and implement ecclesiastical goals, ideals, and services that respond effectively to changes in an increasingly pluralistic society.
5. Demonstrate competency in communication, leadership, and management skills.
6. Demonstrate competence in using Theological and biblical knowledge to succeed in business and leadership.
7. Demonstrate the competence in using theological research to procure faculty jobs in seminaries, colleges, and Universities.
8. Use critical thinking approach to contextualize circular ideals into productive ventures in the Theological and Ecclesiastical Environments.
9. Use creative ideas, and approach to gain financial independence and break even or earn abnormal dividends in the business world.
10. Apply appropriate basic research methods and techniques, when necessary, to conduct applied systematic theology, the doctrine of God and man, leadership, counseling, Church history, and other theological information and programs to modules, and businesses.
11. Understand and critically evaluate research and professional literature in theological world.

GOAL H: Student Goal: Facilitate linkages between Winning Life Theological Seminary students and Churches, Christian Organizations in a global society

1. Articulate the cultural, social, political, and Economic implications of the role of Winning Life Theological Education within and outside of the U.S, and the importance of Theology across ethnic, cultural, and social boundaries.
2. Apply human-centered design processes to satisfy student theological needs in 21st Century technologically, biblically, and theologically intensive environments.
3. Use academic and Theological architecture to coordinate design, technology, and business goals.
4. Implement and protect theological programs and networks, using appropriate technological tools and processes such as long distance learning technological system to augment learning and higher education programs in the developing world.
5. Demonstrate understanding of post-secondary Education policy, theological Economics, and biblical and theological ethics within the Bureau of post-secondary Education of California.
6. Function in leadership and management roles.
7. Judicious use of critical thinking, professional writing, professional judgment, and analytical skills and the utilization of common sense in leadership management.