BRIEF HISTORY

Capital Baptist Bible Institute of the Deaf (CBBID) was founded by Pastor Terry M. Buchholz in 1996 located in Wheaton, Maryland under the ministry of Hampshire View Baptist Deaf Church (formerly Wheaton Baptist Church of the Deaf. In 2002, it was decreed that the name is to be changed to Capital Baptist Deaf College. Since its beginning the school has provided the unique service of educating Christians wherever they were ministering.

MISSION

The mission of Capital Baptist Deaf College is to support the local church by providing Scriptural knowledge, Godly understanding, and practical training to dedicated Christians so they maybe equipped to serve God and minister to the spiritual needs of others.

PURPOSE

The aim of CBDC is to prepare men for the pastorate, evangelism, and the mission field. In other words, it is like a “trade school” for pastors, missionaries, and evangelists. To accomplish this, the college emphasizes the main facets:

1. The King James Version is the literal Word of God. From it, we have everything man needs in order to know how to obtain eternal life and to know how to live.
2. God’s manner of work today is to be through the local church. Our courses emphasize planting, pasturing, and working the local church.
3. Practical training is essential in God’s service. The CBDC majors in the “how to of the pastorate.”
4. Provide a systematic and practical Bible education for students pursuing a ministry.
5. Help prepare students for ministries of the local church. Areas of concentration include Biblical Studies, Pastoral Studies, Evangelism and Missions, and Christian Counseling.
6. Encourage and revitalize those currently in the ministry through an invigorating exposure to God’s Word.

OBJECTIVES

In order to accomplish the above-stated purpose, the following objectives have been established for the CBDC:

1. To train pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and full-time/part-time/lay Christian workers.
2. To offer a Bible-centered curriculum with an evangelistic, missionary emphasis.
3. To produce students of the Word of God, equipped to teach and preach.
4. To encourage scholarship, excellence, and academic achievement.
5. To provide training that will bring about disciplined lives and build Christian character.
6. To provide an atmosphere that will simulate spiritual growth and evangelistic zeal.
7. To train servants for God with a New Testament local church emphasis.

There are circumstances that individuals who have raised their level of performance to excellence. With God’s help, CBDC is endeavoring to produce students for Jesus Christ.

Their lifestyles are of higher quality. That is why CBDC is seeking to raise the level of your character. When we insist on hard work, discipline, cleanliness, punctuality, respect, submission, faithfulness, intellectual stretching, and the cultivation of the spiritual life, we are helping you become an impacted Christian. The first entry in Webster’s definition of character is “a distinctive mark.” CBDC’s heritage is distinctively Christian. Our goal is to cooperate with God in making you young men and women of distinction inwardly and outwardly.

Christians realize the negative effect of a lack of character on their personal lives. CBDC is attempting to raise your sensitivity to your responsibility to the community. As a future godly Christian, we ask you to always evaluate the effect of your attitudes and actions on others.

OUR VERSES

We have carefully chosen the school verses in light of the difficulties that arise when an individual purses a theology diploma or degree. The additional demands on time, energy and finances are considerable. It is our prayer that God will establish each of our students in the discipline of study and the dedication of service, thereby producing “good works” for the Lord.

“Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.”

(II Thessalonians 2:16,17)

 “Where there is no vision, the people perish”

(Proverbs 29:18a)

DOCTRINAL POSITION

1. We believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word of God and is the all sufficient rule in matters of faith and practice.
2. We believe in the historical accuracy of all Biblical accounts including: special creation as it occurred during six literal days, the existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the fall and resultant divine curse on creation, and the worldwide flood.
3. We believe in the triune God, existing in the three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three are co-eternal and co-equal from all eternity, each with distinct personalities but of one essence. God is sovereign, unchangeable and perfect in all His attributes. He is worthy of honor, adoration, and obedience.
4. We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, miraculously born of a virgin, sinless in His humanity, and complete in His deity as the second person in the Trinity. His suffering and literal death was a substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of the world. He was buried and rose again bodily and ascended into Heaven.
5. We believe that man is depraved and salvation from eternal penalty of sin is provided solely by the grace of God through personal faith in Jesus Christ only.
6. We believe in the personal work of Holy Spirit which includes conviction of sin, regeneration of sinners, and indwelling believers.
7. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, for whom the place of eternal punishment was prepared, where all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.
8. We believe in the bodily return of Christ to establish His literal eternal Kingdom.
9. We believe that those who receive Jesus Christ as Saviour are eternally secure. Our Security rests on the finished work of Jesus Christ; as a result, we have assurance.
10. As a fundamental school, Capital Baptist Deaf College takes a separatist stand regarding the current trends that lead to discrediting the Bible and undermining the fundamentals of the faith. These trends include Calvinism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Neo-Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Neo-Pentecostalism, and the Ecumenical Movement.

LOCATION

CBDC is located in the large and populous Washington, DC area. This offers prospective students abundant job opportunities. Located about thirteen miles north of our Nation’s capital and Gallaudet University and CBDC is situated in a beautiful rural setting in the Washington DC Metro area. The school is in Silver Spring, Maryland.