Mission Imperatives
- Vanguard College partners in the accomplishment of its mission with the Alberta/Northwest Territories District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.
- In the context of God’s big story, we provide biblical higher education through theological, professional, and worldview studies.
- We acknowledge the diversity of service in the Kingdom and seek to enable students to discern their call and develop their unique gifts and character for a prevailing Church.
Student Learning Outcomes
The Vanguard College graduate will be: Diligent in studying and integrating the Word of God. Equipped to exercise their ministry gifts and abilities. Prepared to minister within the culture, according to Scripture. Creatively influencing their world for Christ. Empowered to minister in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Showing evidence of the fruit of the Spirit. Equipping and mobilizing others for growth and service through community. Trustworthy servants, leading with strength and character.
Core Values
The Supremacy of God’s Word
This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14
Disciplined Spiritual Formation
…to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us. Ephesians 3:19-20
Resilient Personal Wholeness
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30
The Preparation & Mobilization of Skilled Workers
Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest. Matthew 9:36-38
The Proclamation & Practice of God’s Kingdom
This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14
WE BELIEVE
That the Old and New Testament are divinely breathed, infallible, inerrant as originally given and are the complete revelation of God’s plan for the salvation of man.
In Jesus Christ as true God and true Human Being. He was born of a virgin, lived in sinless humanity and died upon the cross, the just for the unjust, as a substitutionary sacrifice, that all who believe in Him may be justified on the grounds of His shed blood. He arose from the dead and now is at the right hand of the Majesty on high as our High Priest.
That salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all people, and those who repent and believe in Him will be born again of the Holy Spirit, receive the gift of eternal life and become children of God.
In the present day reality and need for the post-conversion experience of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the initial scriptural evidence of speaking in tongues, and in the use of supernatural gifts in public and private devotion and worship in the life of the believer, in the healing of the body by Divine Power as practiced in the early church.
In one God who is infinitely perfect, existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
In the local church as a body of believers who meet together for the worship of God for edification, prayer, fellowship and to participate in the ordinance of believer’s baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
That the Second Coming of the Lord is imminent and will be personal, visible, and pre-millennial. This is the believer’s blessed hope and is a vital incentive to holy living and faithful service.
Vanguard College subscribes to the Statement of Fundamental & Essential Truths of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.