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The New Face of The Forge Report |
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The Forge Report has a new look! While Valley Forge Christian College remains committed to providing you with updated and accurate news and information, it is our hope that the updated design will provide a better experience for all of our readers. We hope you like it!
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Next Generation Grant |
All VFCC graduates from 2007, 2008, or 2009 who have a sizeable school debt hindering them from entering the ministry are encouraged to apply for the Next Generation Grant. The AG Trust and the Alliance for AG Higher Education are working together to provide this crucial help for as many qualifying alumni as possible. Grants are awarded on a case-by-case basis and are only available to those graduates who agree to provide at least five years of full-time service in the AG through pastoral, missions or parachurch ministry.
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Graduate Programs Offered at VFCC |
AGTS
The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary Branch Campus at Valley Forge Christian College welcomes you to enroll in a course for the 2010-2011 academic year. For the first time this fall, we will begin offering select courses online! We hope to better accommodate our students in this way. For more information, or to enroll in a course, click here.
VFCC Graduate Program
Earning a Master's Degree at Valley Forge Christian College is now a possibility no matter where you are or what you are doing. Our programs are offered almost exclusively online, providing the flexibility that is required for those actively involved in various academic, professional and ministerial settings. Our highly trained and qualified faculty is here to help students gain the skills and knowledge needed to meet their career and educational goals. More information can be found here.
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Faculty in Focus |
 Mark and Terry Boucher (pronounced Booshay) have joined the staff of Valley Forge Christian College having felt God lead them to work with the students, staff and faculty at VFCC. They recently resigned as senior pastors at Leominster Assembly of God in Leominster, MA, put their house on the market and moved to the Phoenixville area to work and minister at VFCC. Dr. Boucher will serve the college as Pastor-in-Residence without salary for the next year. God has led him to donate his time and talent for the next year. He will teach classes, minister one-on-one to students as well as faculty and staff, represent the college on weekends to area churches and lead a missions trip in the spring.
VFCC has a special place in the heart of the Bouchers. They both graduated from the college ('77, '78) and now are proudly watching as their only daughter begins her senior year at VFCC. Following their graduation from VFCC, the Bouchers headed to Springfield, MO, where Mark earned his Master's degree from AGTS. From there they traveled to New Jersey where they pioneered a church for the next ten years. Their second pastorate was at Leominster Assembly of God in Leominster, MA, where they ministered for the next fifteen years during which time Mark earned his D.Min. from AGTS.
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Leadership Tools |
by Dr. Don Meyer
Tripp, Paul David. Lost in the Middle: Midlife and the Grace of God. Shepherd Press: Wapwallopen, 2004.
Life has a funny way of happening to us. And just when everything is orderly and making sense...mid-life hits. The adventures of our lives now seem trivial to the current sense of emptiness and disappointment. The kids are gone, careers almost over, and no real satisfaction can be found.
Paul David Tripp writes Lost in the Middle as a realistic help for specifically those living in this kind of "mid-life crisis" but even more generally to those who are discouraged in the middle of tumultuous times. His poignant honesty has a way of connecting deeply to personal experience and his application of Scripture speaks to the soul.
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