Pensacola Christian College

Date: Jun 14 2005
Major: Religion/Religious (This Major's Salary over time)
I was one of the very few who got a "female" missions degree in PCC.(1983) Just based on this information, some people will guess correctly my identity!

This is what I have to say, I was not prepared. I'm sorry but I just wasn't. I went through the idealistic

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when you implemnet what we teach you..and the reality was VASTLY different. I was a good student. I made mostly B's in all my classes including ancient Greek. I took all the courses advised and I worked at them with all diligence.

I was not prepared for the depuation process because what I was taught should happen and what did happen were poles apart. It was a terrible ordeal. I don't think anyone should have to go through it or be subjected to it. I think the pastors of the churches we dealt with who treated us negatively didn't get the training that I had at PCC! They didn't understand what the college said was the way they "would definatelty" respond to us, ummmm because they didn't!!

I kept asking myself—I spent all this money going to a college that was supposed to prepare me for this and well….all I can say is that the intellectuals wern't intellectually honest! OR they had no idea about the way it really IS!

I do recall being taught what to do once I got on the missions field, but I don't seem to recall the trial I was to endure to be able to afford to get/be there. Incompetant teaching. Completely inept. Deceptive even.

I have been on the Mission field for 17 years now. I have had to get alternative work to afford to live because we have exhausted the

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option and due to the exchange rate (specifically the shinkage of the US dollar) I have had to get another job.

Nobody has heard of PCC in my host country. Not only that, but as the college is not even State side acredited, NONE of the qualifications I have supposedly aquired at PCC has done me any good at all over here in the aquisition of an additional job outside the home. It's like I didn't get a B.A. in anything.

I understand the reasons PCC is not acredited. However as a educational institution, and not a church, I feel that what I recieved was akin to a pseudo-education, not a real one, because while we certainly do not want to be "of the world" we have to live "in the world" and that includes getting a recongnised education. After all, my parents and I payed them real money. I didn't get a real degree. I have often felt like sending it back to the president. It has been a real sticking point with me.

If I sound like a bitter old lady I am not! I am a full time Christian servant of our Lord Jesus Christ doing a very hard job on a hard missions field.

While I respect the authority that is in place at PCC and I have a deep and abiding respect and love for many of the faculty there, I wish they would hear me and take what I am saying into consideration. I think their courses could be more comprehensive and honest, and they could make religious education students take some sort of recognised acredidation test—after all PCC files the nursing students in to take their state boards…isn't this a bit hypocritical?

If I were a high school student and wanted a real degree in something I would not go to PCC. I also will not be sending my children there. We have better places to put our money with a view to an education that will allow our children to get a job that will see them through life, real education=real degree=real job.