CORE – Pennsylvania Conference of SDA

What is CORE?

It’s a discipleship and evangelism training program that really strengthens the CORE of your Christian experience. Find out why you are an Adventist, see Christ at the heart of every Adventist teaching, and learn how to effectively share this beautiful message with others.

Whether you are thinking of taking a gap year after high school or want to take a mission focus year while in college, CORE is a great opportunity to revitalize your faith, and to root yourself in the Adventist message.

Over the course of 9 months you will have all kinds of amazing experiences in ministry doing:

Bible Studies
Students will be giving personal Bible studies and leading out in small groups with interests they gain in canvassing, social media evangelism, health work, and door-to-door witnessing.
Literature Evangelism
Getting gospel literature into the hands of the community and seeing God transform people’s lives.
Digital Media Evangelism
Using social media to advance the gospel cause, and learning the science behind targeted ads, and effective marketing for evangelistic events. Students will also get to meet with and learn from some of the biggest social media influencers in Adventism today.
Health Evangelism
Learn how to use the health message as a way to make connections with people in your community and bring the gospel into their homes.
Mental Health
Learn how to better understand your own story, find healing in your experience, and how to help others find hope who struggle with mental health challenges.
Organic Agriculture
Not only will you learn how to plan, grow, cultivate, and harvest your own crops, but you’ll also see how farmer’s markets are a great way to meet people, build intentional friendships for the kingdom, and empower them to make a difference in their health.
Overseas Missions
Spend 2 weeks doing an evangelistic series with a church plant in a foreign country. Watch a small congregation grow before your very eyes as the community sees Jesus in the messages shared, and the service performed to meet their needs.

Why choose CORE?

AFFORDABLE

We offer a work study option to dramatically reduce your tuition through canvassing and agricultural work that are built into the program.

CONTINUE EDUCATION WHILE SERVING

Upon successful completion of the CORE program students have the potential to receive academic credit for future studies.

FIND YOUR CALLING

Through multiple opportunities in service you will be able to discover and grow your spiritual gifts.

EXPERIENCE FOREIGN MISSIONS

Students will learn what it’s like to be a foreign missionary by spending two weeks in a foreign context working with existing mission organizations in that area of the world.

DISCOVER YOUR TRUE IDENTITY IN CHRIST

Every aspect of the program is designed to uplift the cross to allow the students to discover their truest and deepest identity in Christ, and how to share that message with the world around them.

What are you going to learn?

We are bringing in some incredible instructors to teach on all of our core beliefs.

Communication with Dwight Nelson
Winsome Witnessing with Gary Gibbs
Adventist Fundamental Beliefs with Dee Casper
Daniel & Revelation with Steven Grabiner
Apologetics & Gaining Decisions with Jay Rosario
Emotional Healing with Paul Coneff
Health with Rico Hill
The Covenants with Skip MacCarty
How We Got the Bible & How to Study the Bible with Nathan Renner
Christ Centered Public Evangelism with Bill Brace
Public Campus Ministry with CAMPUS
Church Planting & Church Growth with Dustin Hall
Abiding in Christ with Dale Leamon
Mental Health with K’dee Elsen
Natural Remedies with Lee Wellard
Sabbath School & How the Church Works with Justin Kim
Relationships & Media Choices with Chad & Fadia Kreuzer
Digital Media Marketing with Chris Matts
The Everlasting Gospel & The Nature of Christ with Rob Benardo
Foreign Missions/Cross Cultural Witnessing with John Kent
Bible Worker Training with Lillian Torres
Total Community Involvement with Don Mackintosh
LGBT Activism, Christianity, Restoration & Reconciliation with Wayne Blakely
And more!

A word from one of our teachers, Pastor Dwight Nelson.

Cost

Tuition is $8,500 for the full program. This covers your room & board, instruction, class fees, and mission trip. With the work study option, many will be able to decrease this cost dramatically.