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Practical Outdoor Ministry

The Outdoor Ministry program will equip you with the practical preparedness, survival, and bushcraft skills as revealed in the Holy Scriptures based around the Biblical festivals of Passover, Pentecost, and Sukkot and then use them for evangelism.

At Bethlehem Bible Institute's Campcraft School of Ministry, students receive world-renowned expert training in survival and bushcraft skills integrated with a ministry focus. This unique program equips learners with practical outdoor skills and the knowledge to use these abilities as a tool for ministry. By blending faith, leadership, and hands-on wilderness training, students are prepared to serve and lead others in both spiritual and practical survival, offering guidance in real-life situations where resilience, resourcefulness, and faith are crucial.

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Course Outline:

Ministry Core

The required ministry courses for this program are Foundations of Christianity, Understanding the Voice of God, The Ministry of the Holy Spirit, Strategies for Spiritual Harvest, Spiritual Warfare, Divine Healing, Kingdom Living, Teaching like Jesus, and Christian Ethics and Worldview.​

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These courses are available 100% online or in Textbook Format.

Modern
Survival

Modern Survival is the foundational course in wilderness skills and leadership. In this course, you will learn hard and soft skills related to training and teaching outdoor skills as a ministry. Home Preparedness, Fire Skills, Water Purification, Knots, Shelters, Animal Traps and Tracking, Wilderness Rescue, and how to teach families survival are detailed through this intensive course. 

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This course is available 100% online. 

Gospel of Survival

This course expounds on the three pilgrimage festivals of the Bible and demonstrates how each reveals an annual pattern of wilderness-based skills and learning. The companion curriculum to the Modern Survival course series is included and expounded upon as part of this course. 

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This course is available 100% online or as a Textbook.

Bushcraft Hygiene & First Aid

Bushcraft First Aid is the introductory course to Wilderness First Aid. Learners will learn to utilize common plants and basic survival kit equipment to treat simple wounds and manage hygiene. 

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This course is available 100% online.

Urban Survival

This course covers essential urban survival skills, such as EDC, Tiered Kit Development, and Bugging Out, as well as projects ranging from lock-picking to making gas masks.

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This course is available 100% online. 

Winter Survival

Jesus referred to being prepared to endure hardship at unexpected times in Matthew 24: "Pray your escape is not in the winter or on a sabbath day. " This course will better prepare you for enduring harsh climates and the elements when camping becomes inconvenient.

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This course is available 100% online. 

Elective

Elective courses ranging from food preservation and making fishing lures to carving spoons, wooden bowls, and backpacking are all potential options when choosing an elective class. 

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Elective courses are available 100% online. 

Bushcraft Fitness

Bushcraft Fitness is a five-week training program designed to prepare you for wilderness travel and expeditions. Open to all fitness levels, the course is self-paced and easily modified to suit personal needs. 

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This course is available 100% Online

Tuition & Process

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Tuition Rates

$1800.00: Associate Degree

$2295.00: Bachelor Degree

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Tuition can be financed  with $500 down with affordable payments arranged through Sezzle or Affirm.

Self-Paced - Online

24-month programs permit you to learn at your own pace according to your schedule.

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Access course material anywhere you have internet access.

Graduate

Upon completion of all course assignments and video exams needed to demonstrate survival skills understanding, your Diploma and appropriate credentials will be mailed.

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