Hartland College – Hartland College is a supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church dedicated to training missional professionals and entrepreneurs to work both domestically and internationally.

What are your concerns?

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Worldly Influence

Do you want to be trained professionally without worldly influences?

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Too Theoretical

Are you worried about college academics being too theoretical?
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Life Purpose

Do you want to find
your life calling?
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New Environment

Are you anxious about
leaving your family
environment?

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Financial Expenses

Are you worried about high tuition costs and debt?

If any of these apply to you, we have good news.

Hartland College is committed to training 21st Century professional missionaries with solid academics, a biblical foundation, and a practical educational approach. All of this in a warm family setting, a spiritual environment, and more affordable than you would expect.

Madison 2.0

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The most effective educational model that we have seen within Seventh-day Adventism was perhaps Madison College. This type of education enabled its students to be the most effective foreign as well as domestic missionaries. Why?

Our Approach

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Why Choose Hartland?

Work
Education

All students participate in a structured work education program that is designed with specific learning objectives. They are placed in work education environments that will help them learn practical skills, give them real-world work experience, and strengthen their résumé.

Health
Education

Every student will be taught the core principles of health and the basics of medical missionary work. Hartland’s physical education program also provides personal fitness training for each student, as well as instructional training in outdoor activities.

Academic
Excellence

Each class is intentionally designed to combine classroom theory and real-life application. We seek to integrate faith and learning with the latest academic research, all presented within the context of a biblical Seventh-day Adventist worldview.

Graduate
Debt Free

Students are taught the fundamentals of developing a business and marketing plan and are encouraged to develop a feasible revenue generating project aligned with their talents and a work education station at Hartland. Through a combination of efforts that include canvassing, students may graduate debt free.

Mission
Minded

All students receive training in leading people to Christ through our intensive Bible school experience, innovative worships, canvassing programs, and weekly outreach activities.

Spiritual
Atmosphere

Apart from heavy schedule and classes, our students enjoy spending time together with our staff going hiking, exploring campus, having vespers and much more.

Meet Our Alumni

Choose the Program That’s Right for You

Theology Department

A course to train competent ministers, evangelists, Bible workers, and teachers to share the Three Angels’ Messages to the world.
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Christian Media and Communication Department

Designed for students who want to develop creative media-based entrepreneurial skills to win souls.
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Health Science Ministry Department

The Health Science Ministry Department’s mission is to prepare comprehensive health missionary professionals.
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Christian Education Department

Instructing missionary teachers to work in a variety of educational settings, from modern classrooms to off-the-grid mission outposts.
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Midwifery Ministry Department

A course combining distance learning with onsite training that prepares women to work as  midwife assistants, childbirth educators, and doulas.
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Is Hartland Accredited?

Who are some Hartland professors?

Pr. Mark Finley

Adjunct Faculty in
Religion Department

Dr. Steven Grabiner

Adjunct Faculty in
Religion Department

Dr. Philip Samaan

Adjunct Faculty in
Religion Department

Dr. Scott Griswold

Adjunct Faculty in
Religion Department

Dr. Andrew Smith

Christian Education
Department Chair

Here’s How It Works

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Apply

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Get accepted

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Study

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Graduate

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Madison 2.0

Because this model of education was the first one that offered a wholistic education that truly prepared students to be entrepreneurial ministry leaders or self-supporting missionaries as they used to call it.  Ellen G. White declared that if other Adventist schools would follow this model, “we as a people would be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men….” Ellen G White, Pamphlet 119: “An Appeal for the Madison School”, p. 2

We want to see that happen at Hartland.

Madison 2.0 is Hartland’s initiative to implement the genius educational model from Madison College in a 21st century setting.

Practical
Skills

  • Solid academics
  • Work education program
  • Project-based curriculum
  • Agricultural and health training
  • Outdoor living

Personal
Growth

  • Deep Bible study
  • Character development
  • Discipline & time management
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Physical fitness

MISSION

  •  Integrative mission perspective
  • Bible and Spirit of Prophecy foundation
  • Community outreach evangelism
  • Canvassing
  • Community internships

Ministry Entrepreneurship

  • Servant Leadership
  • Missional Entrepreneurship
  • Faith & Finance
  • Ministry Leadership

Mission

  • Integrative mission perspective
  • Bible and Spirit of Prophecy foundation
  • Community outreach evangelism
  • Canvassing
  • Community internships

Practical
Skills

  • Solid academics
  • Work education program
  • Project-based curriculum
  • Agricultural and health training
  • Outdoor living

Personal
Growth

  • Deep Bible study
  • Character development
  • Discipline & time management
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Physical fitness

Ministry
Entrepreneurship

  • Servant Leadership
  • Missional Entrepreneurship
  • Faith & Finance
  • Ministry Leadership

Training 21st Century Professional Missionaries

Hartland College is in the process of applying for accreditation. (It’s not accredited yet.) This has not been an issue for many of our graduates. 

We have good relationships with accredited universities such as Weimar, Southern, Andrews, and many others. 

Is accreditation a good thing?

Pr. Mark Finley

Mark Finley is a former speaker/director for It Is Written and a retired General Conference vice president. He is still active as an evangelist, and has presented more than 150 evangelistic series in more than 80 countries, as well 17 NET series broadcast throughout the world. He presents regularly at conventions, field schools, and evangelism institutes, and appears on the Hope Channel’s series Experience Hope. He has written more than 70 books, writes Bible studies for Adventist World magazine, and is the author of Revival and Reformation, the lesson quarterly for the third quarter of 2013. He and his wife, Ernestine “Teenie,” have three grown children: Deborah, Rebecca, and Mark Jr. Today, Pastor Finley and Teenie continue their ministry at the Living Hope School of Evangelism Training Center in Haymarket, Virginia.

Dr. Steven Grabiner

Steven Grabiner provides training and consulting to nonprofit leaders and teams around the world. He has more than 20 years of pastoral and leadership experience. Grabiner currently lives with his wife, Vivian, in Collegedale, Tenn., where he serves as president of Percepta, a leadership services company.
Faculty since 1988, he has taught courses in entrepreneurship, management, economics, and finance, and has received numerous teaching awards.

Dr. Philip Samaan

A former professor in the Theological Seminary at Andrews University in Michigan, a missionary in Africa, and a previous chief editor of the Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide at the General Conference in Maryland. Dr. Philip G. Samaan is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Religion at Southern Adventist University in Tennessee–as well as serving as Professor Emeritus. He is the author of several books including Christ’s Way to Pray, Christ’s Way of Affirmation, Christ’s Way to Restoration, Christ’s Way to Spiritual Growth, and Christ’s Way of Making Disciples. He is well-known through his inspirational Christian-living books such as Blood Brothers, Portraits of the Messiah, and Christ’s Way to Pray, to name a few. Philip’s love for God and His children is obvious in his presentations.

Scott Griswold

Scott Griswold is the associate director for ASAP Ministries. He previously worked as the director for Global Mission’s Buddhist Study Center in Thailand and as a church planter in Cambodia with Adventist Frontier Missions. He recently wrote Reach the World Next Door, a cross-cultural missions training program for reaching immigrants, refugees, and international students in North America. He is married to Julie and is a father of four, all born in Southeast Asia

How is Hartland’s relationship with the SDA church?

Hartland College is an officially recognized supportive ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church by the Columbia Union Conference, North American Division, and the General Conference. Hartland College is a member of ASI and OCI, umbrella organizations for supportive lay ministries