Tim McKeown, RTS/Houston’s executive director called this “wonderful news” and a great step forward for the Reformed faith in Houston and Southeast Texas. “Our goal is to develop a regional seminary offering a full complement of language and theological courses culminating in the Master of Divinity Degree and hopefully a Doctor of Ministry after that,” said McKeown.

After careful scrutiny of RTS’s operation at its campus within the facility of Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Association of Theological Schools in the United State and Canada (ATS) and The Commission on Colleges of The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) have now formally approved RTS/Houston to offer the full degree of Master of Arts in Biblical Studies.

Tim McKeown, RTS/Houston’s executive director called this “wonderful news” and a great step forward for the Reformed faith in Houston and Southeast Texas. “Our goal is to develop a regional seminary offering a full complement of language and theological courses culminating in the Master of Divinity Degree and hopefully a Doctor of Ministry after that,” said McKeown.

CEPC and RTS began their alliance in April, 2010, when the church and seminary entered into an agreement to cooperate in providing a Reformed seminary education in Houston, the fourth largest city in the nation, and began offering classes in the spring of 2011.  Enrollment and class offerings have grown dramatically in the ensuing two years.  The accreditation of the RTS/Houston campus is a sure confirmation not only of that healthy growth but of the quality of education being offered.

Senior Pastor John Crimmins called the alliance a victory of faith. “I rejoice with RTS that theHouston campus is now accredited to offer the MA degree in Biblical Studies. Our church is completing a building expansion that, among other things, will allow us to continue to offer a home toRTS/Houston for many years to come.” The Sonrise Expansion, as the new addition is called, is set for completion in June of this year, just in time for RTS/Houston’s new accreditation and its growing student body. The church’s Sonrise expansion will house offices for RTS/Houston and other Christian ministries, classrooms for the church and seminary as well as a library and a chapel.

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