Trinity Valley Baptist Seminary and College is an Independent Baptist

Independent Baptist

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, fundamentalist, and King James Only seminary

Seminary

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 and college

College

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 located in Kennedale

Kennedale, Texas

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 in Tarrant County

Tarrant County, Texas

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 between Dallas

Dallas, Texas

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 and Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas

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, Texas

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. Founded in 1960, TVBSC purports to uphold "the doctrines, standards, and ideals of God

God

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’s word."

Seminary purpose

Located in what the seminary website proclaims “the cradle of fundamentalism”, the institution authorizes bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral

Ph.D.

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 degrees. Its chief officers Billy B. Beck, president; Ronnie Reese, executive vice-president; Wayne L. Bonner, vice president, and Martin Wilkins, academic dean.

The six focal points of the institution are stated as:

• A pioneer spirit
• Burden for lost souls
• Loyalty to Christ
• Church-centered evangelism
  Evangelism
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• Quality educational opportunity
• Christian
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   love among the student body

Seminary history

TVBSC began after a group of Independent Baptist pastors agreed to establish an institution in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, where biblical infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture would prevail without dissent or questioning. The first classes were held at a night school on the Tuesday after Labor Day

Labor Day

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, 1960, at the South Fort Worth Baptist Temple. In 1961, TVBSC relocated to Kennedale on property donated from Bethel Baptist Church. The seminary is local in affiliation but enjoys financial support from beyond Texas. The institution is governed by a board of trustees committed to upholding the tenets of Christian fundamentalism. The college portion of the institution did not begin until 1982. The curriculum is available for both on- and off-campus settings.

The college claims educational accreditation

Educational accreditation

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 through the Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges and Theological Seminaries

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, an unrecognized accrediting organization based in Beebe

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, Arkansas

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.

The institution is named for the Trinity River

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of Texas.