Six accredited degrees.
Earned in the Yakima Valley.
$11,350 a year, living at home. A four-year degree awarded by Life Pacific University, with ministry training four mornings a week here at Yakima Foursquare.
01Organizational Management BA · 4 years+
Church operations, administration, and the running of things. For the person who makes the whole machine work and has never once wanted to be on a stage.
- Also useful for
- Nonprofits, small business, team and project leadership
02Psychology BA · 4 years+
Care and counselling. For the person people already come to. Life Pacific also runs an MA in Counseling if you keep going.
- Also useful for
- Social work, school and youth support, recovery ministry
03Worship Arts & Media BA · 4 years+
Music, production, communication. Four years with your hands on real equipment in front of a real room, every Sunday — not in a lab.
- Also useful for
- Live production, audio, video, design, social
04Ministry & Leadership BA · 4 years+
The pastoral track. Biblical knowledge and practical skill together, with Pentecostal theology running through it.
05Biblical Studies AA · 2 years+
Two years. A full associate degree that transfers into any of the bachelor’s above if you want to keep going.
06General Studies AA · 2 years+
Two years of general education, done here. The widest door if you are not sure yet — which is a completely reasonable thing to be at seventeen.
A real university degree,
without leaving Yakima.
Your coursework is online through Life Pacific University — the same accredited degree their students in California earn. What happens here is everything else: four mornings a week in the building, a mentor who knows your name, and real ministry you are actually responsible for.
- Degree awarded by
- Life Pacific University — WSCUC & ABHE accredited
- Start
- Fall or spring
- Prior college
- Not needed — transfer up to 72 units if you have it
—What does it cost, really? $11,350 / year+
| Item | Per year | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $9,000 | $375 per credit — the church-partner rate |
| Site fee | $2,000 | The room, the mentorship, the staff time |
| Technology | $350 | Charged by Life Pacific |
| Total | $11,350 | Financial aid available. Books extra. |
Your ministry training here is a 16-week for-credit course every semester, and Life Pacific charges no tuition for those units.
—Is it cheaper than my other options? Yes, except one+
| Per year | Cost | |
|---|---|---|
| Here | $11,350 | Living at home, with the internship |
| Life Pacific online | $12,350 | Same degree. No cohort, no mentorship |
| Life Pacific in California | $36,478 | Plus moving there |
| Yakima Valley College | ~$5,163 | Cheaper. No formation, no ministry training |
Did Running Start? Those credits transfer — up to 72 units, two full years. You could finish an accredited bachelor’s in about two years for roughly $23,000 total, living at home.
—What would my week look like? Mon–Thu mornings+
- Monday – Thursday
- 9:00 – 12:00 — devotion, staff prayer, ministry track, mentorship, study hall
- Tuesday evening
- 6:30 – 8:30 — Young Adults at The Common House
- Sunday
- 8:00 – 12:00 — your ministry, setup to teardown
- Attendance
- Miss no more than 10% — and every church event
That is a real commitment and we are not going to pretend otherwise. It is also the whole reason this is different from taking classes online by yourself.
—I don’t know what I’m called to yet. That’s year one+
Most people who feel called get used, not built. Year one here is the opposite: four to six rotations, six to eight weeks each, through every part of how a church actually works — so you find out where you belong by standing in it, not by guessing.
Year two you pick one and own it. Years three and four you lead, apply for Student Staff and its $2,000 scholarship, or take a semester abroad.
—I’m older. Is this for me too? Yes — different door+
The internship is for 17 to 25 year olds. The degree is open to anyone, at any age, with greater flexibility and without the full weekly commitment — so you can finish a bachelor’s around work, family and the ministry you are already doing. Graduate and doctoral programmes run this way too.
—Who is actually teaching me? Two answers+
Life Pacific teaches the coursework — accredited faculty, online. Yakima Foursquare does the forming: a mentor every week, pastors you see on a Tuesday morning, and responsibility you are actually trusted with.
Formation before function. Faithfulness before leadership. Exposure before specialization.
Four mornings a week you are in a room with the same people, and on the fifth day you are responsible for something real together. That is the part no online programme can send you.
01Connect
02Before the morning
03Sanctuary
04The cohort
05Between sessions
06Cross
07Teaching
08Detail
09Outside
10On the grass
11Portrait
12Portrait
See it before
you decide anything.
Nobody should pick four years off a web page. There are three ways in, and none of them is an application.
- If you’re still in high school
- Tuesday nights, 6:30 – 8:30
Young Adults at The Common House. Our students are there every week. Come once, talk to them, go home.
- Any Sunday
- 9:00 or 10:30
Find whoever is running the thing you’re curious about — the sound desk, the kids’ rooms, the coffee. Ask them what their week looks like.
- If your mornings are free
- Sit in, Monday to Thursday, 9 – 12
For graduates, Running Start students with open mornings, and adult learners. Tell us which day and we’ll have someone expecting you.
- Spring cohort
- Begins January — exact date to be confirmed
- Applications
- Open year-round — rolling
- Where
- Yakima Foursquare Church — 700 N. 40th Ave