God has ordained that there be educators and teachers as well as ministers of the gospel.
The goal of the Education Department is to train young men and women who will be equipped to work in a multigrade environment, serve as administrators, and help young people foster a personal relationship with Christ.
The Education Department at OHC offers a four-year training program for both elementary and secondary education majors with each student completing a student-teaching opportunity during their last semester before graduation. The program offers some classes that are specific to an elementary classroom, some that are specific to a secondary classroom, and other classes that cover information vital to both types of classrooms. The training our students receive in the education classes is eminently practical, interactive, and thorough.
Bachelor of Secondary Christian Education
Bachelor of Elementary Christian Education
Our elementary and secondary education graduates have done much with their training. Many are teaching in Adventist schools around the country. Others have had the opportunity to help small churches start a church school and have seen those schools flourish and minister to many in the churches and surrounding communities.
Still other graduates have gone to the foreign mission fields and are using the skills they learned here at OHC to enlarge the kingdom of heaven.
— Christ's Object Lessons, page 146 (1900)
