College & Calling
Our desire is to equip our students with a rich knowledge of the liberal arts, a deep faith in Christ, and an insatiable curiosity to learn for the rest of their lives.
Wherever students go from Providence, whether to a four year undergraduate institution, a community college, vocational training, or the workforce—we want our students to following God’s leading as they live lives of wisdom, virtue, and eloquence to his glory. While most of our graduates progress to traditional four year undergraduate program, we firmly believe that the best place for each of our students is exactly where God call them to be.
College Advising
With our small class sizes comes personal attention to each student as they prepare for what comes next after graduation. Individual counseling, seminars on paying for college, visits from a number of college representatives, and opportunities to earn college credit in high school all give Providence students a strong springboard from which to launch their college search. The vast majority of our students pursue a college degree upon completion of their work at Providence. Providence graduates attend a wide variety of undergraduate programs: from large public universities like Missouri State, Truman State and Missouri S&T, to smaller Christian liberal arts colleges like Wheaton, Covenant, Biola and Union.
Discerning God's Call
Writer and pastor Frederick Buechner once said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Whether it is in pursuing further training in an undergraduate institution, vocational training in a skilled discipline, service in the armed forces, a vocational call to ministry, or the workforce, we aim to equip students to discern both the unique ways in which God has gifted them and the opportunities that exist to serve God and neighbor in the world.
A Providence education is primarily concerned with who a student is rather than what a student knows. As we pursue rigorous academics, we do so with the aim of applying the knowledge and skills acquired to form a fully realized person. Educating the whole person means awakening them to the truth of who God is, who they are, and what they were made to be, which is far more than merely achieving academic proficiency, though it is certainly not less than that. We aim for students to find delight in the leisure of life, and all those God-glorifying thoughts and activities that draw us nearer to our Creator.
