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"Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." Hebrews 13:18

The Seminary is a spiritual as well as an academic institution. As such, our school has not only academic and financial needs but spiritual ones, too. Please commit to pray with and for us for the following ongoing needs:

  • For fidelity to God's Word as an institution, both in faith and in practice.
  • That GPTS support Christ's church in her missionary enterprise with our resources.
  • For our faculty, both in the classroom, in the churches, and at home.
  • For our students as they study and as they exhort and teach.
  • For our foreign students, that they adapt to their new circumstances here in Taylors, SC.
  • For our finances:
    • The Capital Funds campaign and for outstanding pledge money to come in
    • The General Fund, which supports our day to day operations

For more specific and timely requests please see the latest issue of our monthly e-newsletter available on the Resources Page. The e-newsletter contains prayer requests, articles by or about Greenville Seminary, and updates on our financial resources. To receive monthly updates via e-mail sign up on the home page.


Pray that We May be an Instrument to Spread the Gospel
George W. Knight III, Board Chairman

The Westminster Shorter Catechism in its answer ninety-eight aptly describes prayer by saying it “is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgement of his mercies.”

We boldly ask of you, our beloved friends and fellow believers, that you pray for us as one of your desires just as the apostle Paul asked the Ephesian Christians that they would pray for him (Eph. 6:18-19). We know that in all our activities, whether teaching, preaching, or in the day to day running of our school, we are completely dependent upon the enabling grace of God’s presence and Spirit (just as our Lord said in John 15:5, “apart from me you can do nothing”). And so we not only ask him directly for his enabling grace but also ask you to join with us in asking for that same provision. Our Lord Jesus Christ, in teaching that prayer which we call “the Lord’s,” taught his disciples, and also us, to pray for the hallowing of God’s name, the coming of his kingdom and the doing of his will, just as he reminded us to be thankful for our daily bread and to be kept by Him from the evil. He taught us in that prayer to rely upon God and seek his will in all things. Paul had learned well from his Lord that we must pray together (“our” Father, give “us”) and so he asks the churches to pray “at all times in the Spirit, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel” (Eph. 6:18-19).

So since in training men for the gospel ministry we do so with a clear conscience, we may ask you again with the words of Hebrews 13:18, “Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.” We are seeking to prepare men for the ministry, whether at home or abroad, and we have seen men go out from this school ready to be under-shepherds to God’s people or to reach the lost. Pray with us that this service of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to the gospel may continue and flourish – to the glory of God! And we will continue to pray for you and your marriages, families, and churches as well.