If you want to know what God’s purpose is for your life, just look around and see where He is at work -- and then jump on board.Next thing you know… you’ll know.
Sebastian Vaduva, Dean Griffiths School of Management Emanuel University
Emanuel University
Emanuel University is the only fully accredited conservative Christian university in Eastern Europe and is made up of the School of Theology (which confers both Undergraduate and Masters Degrees) and the School of Management.The university is located in northwest Romania, at the crossroads between Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Their mission is to attract young men and women from all over Romania and other parts of Eastern Europe and train them to use their gifts, whatever they are, to build up their local communities and to help restore nations impoverished and weakened by 50 years of Communism.Their goal is to provide both spiritual and academic education to young people in specific areas of study, enabling them to be credible and respected in their communities and thereby creating spiritual and economic regeneration in Romania. Emanuel University is committed to the practical application of its teaching.Their aim is not only to produce graduates with a degree, but also to give them a sense of purpose that focuses their skills on the community’s needs.Some graduates attack the problems of material poverty by helping to start and run enterprises that create jobs and wealth; others help meet the physical needs of orphans, the sick or the dying with the compassion and training of social care; and others challenge widespread spiritual poverty as teachers or pastors. Currently they have 427 students from 14 nations (Europe, Asia, US, the Middle East, Australia) along with 50 faculty and staff from Romania, the U.S. and the UK, with over 1,200 graduates dispersed back in their home regions.
The roots of Emanuel University were planted in 1986, when Emanuel Baptist Church of Oradea initiated a secret school to train future pastors and teachers, despite the severe Communist persecution of that time.In 1990, after communism fell, the underground training school emerged from secrecy as an evangelical theological seminary, the Emanuel Bible Institute, and was asked by the national education authorities to train teachers as well as pastors.With extraordinary vision, the Education Secretary pointed out that only someone with a missionary spirit would be willing to go into the remote towns and villages of Romania.
That challenge furnished an increased vision to train young people to serve in the world, in any capacity they choose, but with strong Christian principles so that the contribution to the communities in which they work and to the families to which they belong, will be grounded in excellence and integrity.Today, they train students to teach languages, literature and music; they are developing social workers and have a school of business to train students to create prosperity for themselves and the world around them.