What makes Florida Hospital College different than other third-level Adventist institutions?
Here’s the background on why. My years in Africa helped me to understand that Adventism could reach a much broader community if it reached outside itself. Adventist grade schools and middle schools in Africa invite communities in. Many of their students are not Adventists. One thing we are seeing today is large growth in Adventism in Africa. This can be directly related back to the fact that many individuals are not strangers to Adventism. Many were educated in Adventist schools. The idea of developing an exclusively Adventist college did not appeal to me. I wanted to make sure that the community we developed here reflected the wider community our graduates would work in. We are more concerned with developing a Christian school run by Adventists than another uniquely Adventist school. Some of our faculty and staff are not Adventist, but all are committed Christians. In some ways some of them are more committed to our mission than some of those in uniquely Adventist institutions. That’s
