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Our mission is to assist the church in equipping Great Commission Christians.

10/27/2026

After a day set apart for prayer last week, this truth feels especially close:

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5 (NIV)

Whatever season you're walking through, that truth still holds.

💬 Where have you seen light show up in a dark season?

10/20/2026

Prospective students: Fall Preview Day is this Saturday, October 24!

Come tour campus, meet faculty and current students, and see what makes CIU's Seminary and Counseling programs different.

👉 Current students, what's one thing you'd tell a visiting student about life here?

10/06/2026

10/02/2026

Alumni, what's a verse that carried you through your time at CIU? Parents, what's a verse you're praying over your student this semester?
Let us know in the comments!👇

10/01/2026

What does it look like to prepare counselors who can care for people well and then help prepare others to do the same?

For Professor Nicole Kinney, that calling has unfolded right here at CIU.

After completing CIU’s M.A. in Clinical Counseling, Nicole joined the first cohort of the Ph.D. in Counselor Education & Supervision. Today, she serves on CIU’s faculty while continuing her work as a counselor and researcher.

“Counseling is such a beautiful way to walk out our calling to show love to others, to walk beside people who are hurting and suffering, and to provide hope,” Nicole said.

In her story, Nicole shares how faculty mentorship shaped her, why biblical worldview integration matters in clinical counseling and how the Ph.D. prepared her to move from learning as a student to teaching and mentoring future counselors.

Read Nicole’s story: https://ciu.edu/news/a-calling-to-counsel-teach-and-lead-professor-nicole-kinney-at-ciu/

Considering what might be next in your own counseling career? The next Ph.D. in Counselor Education & Supervision cohort begins June 28, 2027, and the priority application deadline is Dec. 15.

09/29/2026

Midterms. Ministry. Life.

If you're a student juggling all three right now: take a breath. You're doing more than you realize.

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9

💬 What's helping you stay grounded this semester?

09/22/2026

Fall is here, and so is a new season of ministry, counseling, and calling for CIU grads all over the world!

From church staff to counseling offices to mission fields, our alumni are living out what they learned here.

👉 CIU alumni, where are you serving this fall?

08/27/2026

Are you a "slow grower"?

If years of the same struggles, the same confessed sins, and the same slow pace have left you discouraged, Philippians 1:6 has a word for you: "He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ."

Paul wrote that from prison to a church full of real conflict and immaturity, yet he was certain of their finish. Not because of their progress. Because of God's commitment.

Your incompleteness isn't evidence against the promise. It's the premise of it. Stop measuring your growth day to day and look at the seasons instead, growth is often invisible up close but undeniable over time.

"You are not an abandoned project. You are a work in progress with a guaranteed unveiling."

Watch the full message here:

Sermon Outline: https://promise-behind-process-inb18cg.gamma.site/...

08/25/2026

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)

New semester, new classes, new challenges.

Whatever this year holds in the classroom, the counseling office, or the ministry field, may you walk it leaning on Him.

💬 What's one thing you're praying for this semester?

05/28/2026

What if giving had nothing to do with obligation and everything to do with joy?

In this message at Sandhills Community Church, CIU's own Dr. David Croteau unpacks one of the most freeing truths in Scripture: Christian generosity is not about earning God's love or checking a box. It is a joyful, overflowing response to the grace we have already received.

Drawing from 2 Corinthians 8 and Jesus' words in Matthew 6, Dr. Croteau traces a straight line from the gospel to our wallets and invites us to ask a deeper question. Not "how much do I have to give?" but "how can I not?"

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." 2 Corinthians 8:9

Watch: https://youtu.be/iAZudCPhfGk?si=dOIXqhh2torPHDYd

Dr. Croteau is a professor at Columbia International University's Biblical Seminary. Learn more about CIU's programs at ciu.edu.

Sermon from May 17th, 2026.No sermon notes this week.

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7435 Monticello Road
Columbia, SC
29203

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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+18007772227

Website

https://ciu.edu/academics/programs/#ssc

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