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College Profile

Enrollment: about 175 students
Location: lakeside campus near Bemidji, Minnesota
Accreditation: Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE)
Affiliation: interdenominational
Cost: affordable — lower than many other colleges
Financial Aid: state & federal financial aid, private scholarships, on-campus jobs
Athletics: intercollegiate men’s and women’s basketball, intercollegiate women’s volleyball, and men’s hockey (club sport)

About Oak Hills

Our History

Oak Hills Christian College began as Oak Hills Christian Training School in 1946. Early leaders of Oak Hills stated: "The general purpose of this corporation shall be to further the study of the Bible among the laity, to teach and equip men and women and youth for Christian service as lay teachers of the Bible, to maintain and operate... a training center... where instruction shall be given in the Bible, in the precepts of Christian character and the rules of Christian fellowship."

Although Oak Hills Christian Training School became Oak Hills Bible Institute in 1959, Oak Hills Bible College in 1985, and Oak Hills Christian College in 1998, that original purpose continues to guide us. [see History]

Affiliation

Since Oak Hills is not affiliated with any one denomination, students from a wide variety of churches attend for biblical education. Oak Hills Christian Training School was founded largely to reach the youth and adults of northern Minnesota. Through the years, its ministry has expanded to serve students from many states and foreign countries.

Oak Hills alumni serve Christ as active lay persons in local churches, as well as full-time professional Christian workers. Many minister overseas while others fill a wide spectrum of ministries in the United States and Canada.

Doctrinal Statement

SCRIPTURES: We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are all verbally inspired by God, without error
as originally written, and our only infallible rule of faith and practice.
THE GODHEAD: We believe the Godhead eternally exists in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God having precisely the same nature, attributes, perfection, and worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience.
THE SAVIOR: We believe the Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. We hold to His virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, His present high priestly ministry, His translation of the church, and His personal premillennial return to set up an earthly kingdom.
THE HOLY SPIRIT: We believe the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity who convicts the unsaved and effects the full salvation of the believer.
MAN: We believe, through the fall of man in Adam, all men are totally depraved and stand in need of regeneration.
SALVATION FOR SINNERS: We believe salvation was provided through Jesus Christ by His substitutionary and sacrificial death on the cross, sufficient for all, taking every legal obstacle out of the way, and that all must be born again or be forever lost.
ETERNAL LIFE: We believe eternal life is the sovereign work of God’s grace implanted in the sinner when he believes and receives Christ.
TWO DESTINIES: We believe the destiny for the believer is to be present (at home) with the Lord and for the unbeliever is to be separated from the presence of the Lord in everlasting punishment.
THE CHURCH: We believe the church is an organism of which Christ is the head, made up of individual believers who have been saved by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ through the grace of God and baptized into Christ’s body by the Holy Spirit.
ONE COMMISSION: We believe the great evangelistic and missionary commission given by Jesus Christ to the disciples and to the continuing church is that of making Christ known by word and example and bringing to maturity those who believe by instruction in the Word.

Memberships and Affiliations

Oak Hills is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Biblical Higher Education, PO Box 780339, Orlando, FL 32826, (407) 207-0808.

Constituents may contact the above accrediting agency regarding concerns about Oak Hills.

Accreditation does not automatically guarantee transfer of credit to another institution. Each school determines their own transfer policy.

Oak Hills is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

Oak Hills Christian College is a member institution of the Central Plains Athletic Conference (CPAC), Northern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NIAC) and the Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA).