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You can support ministry work that matters to you with confidence, knowing your gifts advance our key charitable purposes and uses funds efficiently and effectively to fulfill the ministry goals that you cherish.
The Great Commission Foundation ("The GC") is a charitable trust, established by a Deed of Settlement made as of September 1, 2002 and governed by an Amended and Restated Deed of Settlements made as of October 22, 2024.
The GC is a public foundation that is registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (with Canadian Charitable Registration Number 859928483 RR0001).
The charitable objects of The GC are:
1. The advancement of Christianity by spreading its principles;
2. The relief of poverty by the assistance to those persons lacking the necessities of life by giving them food, clothing, shelter or financial assistance;
3. The advancement of education including, without limitation, by the teaching of scripture and the promotion of literacy; and
4. The advancement of other "charitable purposes" as defined within subsection 149.1(1) of Income Tax Act, which includes the disbursement of funds to "qualified donees" as also defined in subsection 149.1(1).
We engage other ministries as agents to carry out projects that fulfill our charitable objects.
The GC anticipates raising an estimated amount of $12,000,000.00 this year from donation for the fulfillment of its charitable objects from donors in Alberta, Canada. The processing of these donations will cost, on average, six percent. The money raised will be going to fulfill the charitable objects of The GC.
For further information, please contact our Donations Team at donations-ca@thegc.org or call us at 1-855-488-7020. To speak directly to the GC's Donation's Manager, please call Kathy Stewart at (604) 229-8008. The GC has two (2) Canadian offices. Please visit our contact page for further details
By God’s grace, we aim to build an intentionally small college and seminary of about 250 students, total: 70 in the seminary and 180 in the college.
It costs Bethlehem College & Seminary about $18,000 per year to provide one student our Bible-saturated, academically rigorous “Education in Serious Joy,” a program of higher education laser-focused on the task of equipping a new generation of men and women “to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3).
We keep student tuition low, about $8,000 a year so that our students can launch upon graduation into adulthood, life, ministry, and vocation without the burden of student loan debt—financially unshackled and ready to answer immediately God’s call on their lives.
We do that by employing extreme frugality in administration and facilities expenses and by making bold, open-handed investments in hiring and retaining a world-class faculty to teach these students. We own no substantial real estate. Our work is done in the adorned simplicity of unused Sunday school rooms during the week. We receive no federal or state student aid funds.
Beyond that, we depend on God to supply the remaining $10,000 per student or $2.5 million annually. We call this personal ministry on the part of the saints, of which both the faculty and students are then beneficiaries, The Serious Joy Scholarship.
Ministry No. 1220
Program Countries: USA, Cameroon
Focuses: Education, University Campus Ministry
Website: https://www.bcsmn.edu
Team Lead: Rick Segal
*The Great Commission Foundation (the "Foundation") operates on the basis of Donor-Advised Funding. It is our utmost goal to meet the Donor’s desire and intent to provide support to particular Foundation projects but, ultimately, the responsibility for the disbursement and ministry use of funds is The Great Commission Foundation’s.
*You will receive an official Canadian tax receipt for all eligible donations by the end of February of the following year. Thank you for your support of the mission and programs of The Great Commission Foundation.
Call our donations department toll free 1-855-488-7020 or local 1-604-960-2595 Ext. 425
Office hours are 7am – 4pm (PST) Monday to Friday. (GCF’s office is closed on stat holidays)
Email donations@gcfcanada.com – Please do not send credit card numbers via email.
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Since 2002, The Great Commission Foundation has enabled ministry projects to thrive by providing charity admin expertise and guidance while promoting collaboration in fulfilling the Great Commission.