Our Powerful Concept 

 Higher Ground Bible College is dedicated to building a network of new Strategic Impact Churches that will be led by a pastoral team that will turn cities inside out with the Gospel.

Our college is a post graduate college. It is for people who have already completed a more traditional Bible College course of studies. Many Bible College students have every intention of going into full time ministry when they begin their Bible College career. Sadly, after graduation, more than 85% never go into the ministry. WHY?

We believe that there are many reasons why. Lack of openings in churches. Difficulties in striking out alone to pioneer a church. Feelings of inadequacy. There are other reasons too, but these are the major ones that we have overcome here at Higher Ground.

TRUTH: There is a GREAT NEED in the land for the Gospel. People are starving for The Word of Truth. False religions and false doctrines are everywhere. The need is GREAT!

Are you comfortable with your life? Is something stirring inside of you? Is God telling you to move on? Maybe it is because you are not yet moving in your destiny. At Higher Ground we will place you in the “crosshairs” of the prophetic destiny for your life.

Since you have graduated from Bible College we realize that you basically know “all” the fundamentals of The Word that need to be known. The truth is that you already know more about what is in the Bible than 90% of the people in the world. The point now, is to get out and put that into use!

OUR GOAL is simple. We will plant churches that will be led by a team of six ministers (even Jesus sent the Apostles out in teams). We believe in you and the call that The Father has on your life. You have proven your desire to serve in the kingdom, now it is time to serve. Higher Ground is preparing SPECIAL FORCES MINISTERS. We work like the Special Forces in the military. They form teams of six people that train together, learn each others strengths and weaknesses and then they are prepared go into any situation BEHIND ENEMY LINES and defeat the enemy! We prepare a team of six young leaders like yourself, to work as a team and plant a church together. All six of you working as a single unit, marching toward the same goal … defeating the enemy in the city that you are now pastoring in!

OUR GOAL in the twenty weeks you spend at Higher Ground is not to teach you the basic doctrines of the bible all over again, but to help you cohere as a team! That is important because what many people today fail to realize is that, in any given city, it is the pastors that are the spiritual authority. If “one can set a thousand to flight and two, ten thousand to flight”, what can six accomplish?! What damage can six sold out, on fire, powerful warriors for The Kingdom do to the devil’s work against the human race?!

Unfortunately right now, the cry of sin in the land is greater than the cry of intersession going up. Imagine a church that has six dedicated servants leading the work. Six dedicated ministers of the Gospel, sacrificing as a team to reach the lost in a city! WOW!

OUR TRAINING for the twenty weeks you spend at Higher Ground is provided by some of the leading Christians of our time. Many are authors of best selling books and international speakers. They teach their material from a “first hand” perspective! They lived it! The class time is in addition to two practicums. The first session is six weeks long and then we break for the first three week practicum. For three weeks all students will be dispatched to different churches to work hand in hand with the pastor of that church for the entire three week period. That experience will prove to be as valuable as the class training itself. At the end of that period all students return for another five to six weeks of class. Then the second three week practicum. All students will be dispatched to a different church than they attended for the first practicum, giving all students an even wider valuable experience. Students then return for the final session of classes and a June graduation. All students take the month of July off and then all students report to the church plant on the first weekend in August!

OUR TUITION plan is quite simple. Basically we are operating like a missions organization. We are planting churches. You must obtain the support for this effort like any other missionary does. Many organizations insist that their people raise support of up to three to four thousand dollars per month. We have a much more reasonable goal to reach. To come to Higher Ground we require support of just $150 per week. We know that you have people who believe in the call that The Father has place on your life and would be honored to support the work that you will be doing in The Kingdom by contributing ten or fifteen dollars a week. You will need that commitment for a period of four years. While you are training here that will cover your “tuition”. When we plant the church, that will be used to support the rent for a house and a sanctuary and pay the bills for the first few years. While the church is growing, most of the support monies of all of the team members will be used together to pay the bills. This plan will allow all of the team to be full time in the ministry. As the church grows and the tithes and offerings increase, the church will become self supporting.

You might be excited as you read this, but do not come here just because you are excited. You must ask yourself a very important question. Deep down, is this what you really want? Deep down, is this what God really wants you to do?


We told you above that here at Higher Ground we will place you in the “crosshairs” of the prophetic destiny for your life. How do we do that? By giving you a vision that you can “sink your teeth into”! Because we know that a vision unlocks a destiny!




At Higher Ground, yes we believe a little bit differently than most churches.

   The Bible decrees in  Job 22:28

“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be 
established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”

You don’t even want to consider coming to  Higher Ground Bible College unless your idea of ministry looks more like this:
 

 What if there was a place ...

… where the people who were sold out to God and had the fire of His love burning in their hearts could prepare themselves for a life of service and dedication.   

… where our Creator revealed what He was doing in this time and His will for your life.

 … that developed critical, kingdom thinkers who can overcome challenges and walk in their Divine Destiny.

 … that brought "real life" into the classroom.

 … who’s sole method of instruction was intense, deep teaching from men and women that God has used mightily in our day.

 … that offered incredible, quality fellowship.

 … that understood that the Holy Spirit performs God’s Word, not our ideas, and offered solid teaching relevant to today’s world.

 … that prepared it’s students for Radical Christian Living and Ministry that will transform our nation.

… that produced Covenant Thinkers – Generational Thinkers who will build up congregations of families that will produce convenantly raised children to lead our nation and the evangelism of the world.

  … that believed in the Five Fold Ministry:

   At Higher Ground, we have a very different style of ministry training.  If you got saved into an Independent, On Fire, Full Gospel Church and God called you into the ministry, you might indeed be surprised to see what would await you in most of the nations bible colleges.   Coming from that background, you might just have your first chance ever of dealing with “dead Christians”.  In some of those schools as many as one third or more of the class will fall away from Christianity!  

    What else would one expect when the schools are not led by the Spirit of God but rather spend so much of their time teaching Church History and material that is irrelevant to ministry in this New Millennium.  They spend time learning “Great Theological Arguments” that will never win the lost in our cities today.   These arguments may have been appropriate theology forty years ago, but not today.  In some schools they spend weeks learning the Ontological, Telelogical and Cosmological arguments to prove the existence of God.  (blah!)   Talk about being a “Fire Extinguisher”.

    There is very little of that thought that is relevant to the “cutting edge” ministry of today.   How can you historically rationalize the Love of God to a kid strung out on heroin or crack?  How can you use the Cosmological Argument to a fifteen year old prostitute to tell her (or him) that Jesus is real.  She has already been in fornication with over a thousand different men.  ( You never stopped to think about what being a prostitute really meant, did you? )  Your “theology”  just won’t cut through that work of the devil.  That’s why the church is so powerless today.  What will break through that?

    At Georgetown University back in the 1980’s, Henry Kissenger taught the Foreign Policy class.  He had been the U.S. Secretary of State during the Nixon years.  He is credited with many foreign policy advances.  When he taught Foreign Policy he did not just stand in front of the class and tell you what Plato thought about Foreign Policy.  He did not stand there and read to the class from the writings of Aristotle.  NO WAY!  He sat on the edge of the desk and RELIVED to the class the history making experiences that he had been involved in.  The class sat on the edge of their seats as they soaked in the inner thoughts of one of the great statesman of all time … who just happened to be there LIVE, pouring into them!

     What if there was a bible college like that … orientated to the ministry?   God has given that vision to us here at Higher Ground Bible College. 

  This is a bible college that is only interested  in what works.  We have the leaders in their fields coming to train by impartation the things that the Lord has taught them.

    Do you want to live like Jesus did and do what He did?  Then one of the most important things that needs to happen, is that the church needs to stop PLAYING CHURCH and must start BEING REAL with people!  We must stop piously prancing about and start showing people the real Jesus … the Jesus who loves the lost, and is not repulsed by them!  The Jesus who hates “the traditions of men” and is repulsed by “self consuming bless me clubs”.

  How can we expect to reach this LOST generation:

if we cannot speak their language;

if we cannot relate to their culture;

if we cannot love them in spite of their flaws;
            if we cannot feel their pain?

Is that how Jesus would have ministered?  Isn’t He our role model?  

  What if there was a place ...

...where the teacher of the Holy Spirit class had walked on water and raised people from the dead. (Yes, people, plural, over twenty!)

...where not only was a class in Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance taught, but it was taught by a man who died, went to heaven (got trained in this area by God Himself) and came back here to teach us.

...where a class called "Holiness and Purity" is taught by a man who once fell from God's grace, then tasted of  poverty and despair, was restored bountifully by God  -  so he spent 30 million dollars building a city, dedicated to Jesus Christ, of refuge for the lost and hurting.

...that understood so clearly that we are in an all out battle with the forces of darkness, that one of its teachers is actually a trainer from the U.S. Military Special Forces.  His purpose is to train on the nine principals of war and the efficient workings of an organized team.

What if there was a place ...

...where the student body had in its midst secret warriors rescued by God there to train for end time secret missions.  These are men from prison who have traded in their old positions in Satan's Army for a new life sold out to Jesus Christ.  These are men who the world has written off as unredeemable.

...where these secret warriors were teamed up with five other bible college students to train together in love, in brotherhood, in camaraderie and in totally laying down their lives sacrificially for each other. 

...where together all the students train as a team, in covenant with each other, and faithful to the destiny for which our Lord Jesus Christ created them.

What if there was a place ...

 ...that planted its students AS A TEAM to start a church that would convert the lost into radical Christians of Godly character who produce Godly legacies.

There is a place!

      It's called Higher Ground.   We are Making Disciples that will help to revolutionize our world for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Will our generation be counted worthy to enter the promised land?  That is up to us.

     Are you tired of low-impact living?   Are you  ready to walk in God’s Ultimate Purpose for your life?   That is also up to us.   The Bible makes two points that apply here:

Every person, every corporation, every cause, in order to stay on target and to reach full potential and productivity, needs goals to be set.  In spiritual things, the Bible calls it … VISION. (Prov. 29:18)  

and;

The Harvest is Great but the laborers are few.  
(Matthew 9:37)

    What is the difference between a "WARRIOR" and a soldier?  A "WARRIOR" is one who has been to battle!    There is an old way that the "church" has been working.  We are looking for those who want to be WARRIORS!   The Few,  The Humble,  The SOLD OUT ONES!