Our goal for giving in December 2025 was set for $80k. We praise God for your faithfulness and generosity because you smashed that goal. We received a total of $77,412.38 in the month of December, and we received pledges totaling $18,400 for the new year! Our year end total received + pledged = $95,812.38! THANK YOU!
Our TSBC Auxiliary has organized our next giving opportunity for the month of February, and everyone can participate - from the smallest to the tallest, from the poorest to the richest. Our Auxiliary will distribute small Coin Banks designed for collecting spare change that you and your church members may be willing to contribute to the mission at Tri-State Bible College.
Contact TSBC to participate in this Coin Bank Fund Drive in February 2026 - 740-377-2520.
TSBC Students are fulfilling their ministries . . .
The summer of 2025 afforded several opportunities for our students to fulfill their ministries. Jim Caldwell (B.A. class of 2014) serves as the pastor of Hamlin Baptist Church in Hamlin, WV, and Todd DiMichele (B.A. class of 2025) is the founder of By Grace Through Faith Mission and serves in youth ministry at Compassion Church in Canton, OH. They met one another this summer through their mutual connection to Professor David Lambert and Jeremiah 38 Ministries, which led the group to serve Christ in the gospel this summer in Peru. As native Peruvians and other international volunteers provided medical care to the citizens there, David, Jim, and Todd provided biblical counsel and the hope of the gospel to the communities they visited.
Jacob and Adria Watson are permanent residents of Crown City, OH. They are members of First Baptist Church of Gallipolis. This summer, God opened a door of opportunity for an incredible one-year residency experience for them at Parkside Church in Cleveland, OH. Jacob and Adria have been students at TSBC since 2023. One of the major upgrades at TSBC in the last five years has been the transformation of classrooms into live learning environments for both in-person students and online students. We have one classroom left to update, and we could use your help making that possibility a reality! It costs about $5,000 for all of the equipment and the installation. It is this technology that has allowed Jacob and Adria to follow God to fulfill their ministries in Cleveland at Parkside and simultaneously to remain active students at Tri-State Bible College.
2025 Fall Semester Enrollment is Up from 2024 . . .
For the 4th semester in a row, TSBC has seen an increase in enrollment. We have 9 students in our Greek 1 course! While we still have much work to do on our strategic goal of increasing enrollment, we thank God for the hunger that we are seeing among our students for the word of God. Pray Jeremiah 15:16 with us, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.”
Henderson Library and Marquardt Learning Center
Relocation & Circulation
As we have noticed library circulation declining, our staff has tried several ways to turn this around with students and community members: advertising new books, increasing available return drops, changing staffing hours, and updating orientation information. However, we continued to be ineffective in our efforts. We eventually began to discuss the possibility of relocating the library to the Broomhall building to bring the collection into closer proximity to the students.
The Henderson Library (stacks) and Marquardt Learning Center (reference works) building has needed renovation and repairs for years. After a persistent problem with our attic-located HVAC unit surfaced again in August, we also discovered that our attic had become the habitat of multiple (unwanted) critters.
This discovery has catalyzed an effort to relocate the stacks and the reference works to the Broomhall building. The new location of the Marquardt Learning Center (MLC) for reference works is Broomhall #120, and the new location of the Henderson Library (HL) is Broomhall #108. The MLC is complete and very active. While the HL is full, we are in Phase 1b, which requires us to weed out a number of books in our collection to make room for books that have not yet been transferred and for new books that meet our faculty and student needs. Simultaneously, we are looking into expanding our digital book offerings for students.
Phase 2 will take place during the winter months. We will disassemble old shelving units no longer needed, empty and sanitize the attic, and eliminate our pest problem.
Phase 3 will focus on the repurposing and renovating the building to meet the needs of our students, staff and faculty as well as the Christian community of the tri-state. Please pray for our board and staff as we seek God for this.
TSBC News for the 2025 Fall Semester
- Tri-State Bible College hosted a tailgate party at the September 6, 2025 Marshall University vs. Missouri State matchup.
- We will host our next Pastors' Networking Coffee on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 9 AM.
- With the recent Library relocation, we want to invite community members to become patrons of the TSBC Henderson Library and Marquardt Learning Center. We offer the best biblical and theological library in the tri-state region.
- TSBC Fireside Chats with students and faculty take place each Tuesday evening from 6:45–7:15 PM.
Five Ways to Fight the Good Fight with TSBC in 2025
1. BECOME A MONTHLY GIVER TO FREE UP OPERATIONAL CASH FLOW. By giving any amount on a monthly basis, you are strengthening the mission of TSBC and providing access for our students to fulfill their ministries. No amount is too small. Imagine if 500 churches or individuals gave $10 per month to TSBC—that would equal an additional annual revenue of $60,000!
2. MAKE TSBC THE RECIPIENT OF YOUR CHURCH’S SPECIAL HARVEST OFFERING THIS FALL. Many local churches take up special harvest offerings during the fall months of the year. TSBC has benefited from these offerings in the past. Would your church consider blessing TSBC with a harvest offering in 2025?
3. PLAN A MAJOR END-OF-YEAR TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TO THE STRATEGIC GOALS OF TSBC. Having entered the second half of the year, many of you are beginning to plan your end-of-year giving. The generosity of your major gifts has been essential to the fulfillment of our vision and mission. As you can imagine, we depend on your generosity at this time to fund key initiatives and to strengthen operations for the second half of our fiscal year (January–June). TSBC depleted much of our undesignated savings for summer operations when giving and enrollment was lean. As you plan, will you consider making a tax-deductible gift to Tri-State Bible College? If you want to invest in a specific project, like Phase 3 of the Library relocation project or technology upgrades for Room #116, I am here to listen and to connect your giving to strategic goals.
4. REMEMBER TSBC IN YOUR LEGACY PLANNING. We have team members who would like to talk to you about how you can remember TSBC in your final acts of stewardship and be remembered as a difference maker in lives of future students at TSBC. Would you like to meet with someone to discuss how you can remember TSBC in your legacy planning?
5. REFER PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS TO TRI-STATE BIBLE COLLEGE. Our number one priority and mission is offering access for students to fulfill their ministries. We want them to become members of our community of believing, biblical scholarship so that we can send them to be among the leaders who are strengthening the soul of our region. Eighty-nine percent of our graduates are active in ministry. Eighty-one percent reside in the tri-state. When you refer a student to TSBC, you are making a relevant impact on the region’s spiritual maturity and vitality.
By partnering with us in any of these five ways, you are helping our students “fight the good fight” of faith and fulfill their ministries (2 Tim. 4:5–8). Reach out to me today to explore these stewardship opportunities. TSBC belongs to all of us who care about the spiritual flourishing through the sound teaching of God’s word for God’s mission.
In 1 Timothy 6:12, Paul exhorts Timothy to "fight the good fight." The full text of of the verse is “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” The idea is to "struggle in the contest" or "to do battle." What is this fight? First, it is good. Second, it is connected to the faith, which is the faith revealed by the triune God through Jesus Christ. In 2 Tim. 4:7, Paul tells Timothy that he has "fought the good fight," which connects to the second part of 1 Tim. 6:12 - "take hold of the eternal life to which you were called." Paul had taken hold, and in his first letter to Timothy, he exhorts him to do the same. What could be more important than grabbing hold of the eternal life in this faith?! Finally, Paul reminds Timothy that this fight and taking hold is a matter of faithfulness. It is this faith to which Timothy had been called. It is this faith about which Timothy had made the "good confession in the presence of many witnesses." Paul exhorted Timothy to be faithful and loyal in the battle of this faith.
Who is the better wrestler, fighter, athlete? The untrained or the trained? The one who is equipped for battle is better able to wield weapons, understand formations and strategies, take defensive and offensive positions, and accomplish the objectives of the group and the commanding officer. The most important prize or reward that one could receive is eternal life in Jesus Christ. The life of this faith is described here as a fight, a battle. At Tri-State Bible College, we equip men and women to "fight the good fight" that they may faithfully steward the faith in the face of opposition and fulfill their ministries.
Just like any team or army, it takes resources to train effectively. Your gifts to TSBC enable us to offer access for students to carry their ministries to completion—to "fight the good fight of the faith."