GOSPEL ALLIANCE WITH ERSKINE SEMINARY

Erskine Greenville at Mitchell Road

Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church is excited to be in a gospel alliance with Erskine Theological Seminary. Mitchell Road is the home for Erskine Greenville, an embedded extension site of the seminary with in-person classes offered on weekday evenings and Saturdays during the fall, spring, and summer semesters.

Fall 2025 Classes and Registration

During the Fall 2025 semester, Erskine will offer three in-person classes at Mitchell Road. Classes run from late-August through early December. MRPC members can take any seminary course for credit while receiving a substantial scholarship (or can audit for free).

BI 501 Bible Survey with Dr. Chris Barney over four Saturdays (9/6, 9/27, 10/25, and 11/22).
CH 551 Survey of Church History with Dr. Chris Crain over four Saturdays (8/23, 9/20, 10/18, and 11/15).
NT 601 New Testament I with Dr. Richard Winston on Monday nights.

There are also a host of online classes open to Mitchell Road members, with schedule and class information coming soon. To register or for more information, contact, Ms. Valentina Shemereko, Seminary & Graduate Programs Navigator, at Shemereko@erskine.edu or (864) 379-8793.

Membership Benefits

Members of Mitchell Road benefit from the ability to take any seminary course for credit while receiving a substantial scholarship (or can audit for free). Courses may be taken for personal spiritual growth, to try out what seminary study feels like, for life-long learning, to prepare for vocational ministry, or to explore how one might integrate the Christian faith in his or her current workplace.

Erskine Theological Seminary is an accredited, Gospel-centered, Presbyterian seminary based in South Carolina founded in 1837. Erskine’s commitments to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God and Reformed theology and its ecclesial and missional spirit resonate with Mitchell Road’s vision to incarnate Christ in word and deed in Greenville, throughout the Upstate, and into all the world.

Rev. Seth J. Nelson
Dean of the Seminary

Rev. Seth J. Nelson (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary) is Dean of Erskine Theological Seminary and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Educational Leadership. Dr. Nelson oversees the seminary’s Greenville location, hosted by Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church. Seth is an ordained minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC), having previously served for ten years in two local Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) congregations. He loves to teach and pastor (new and developing) pastors, by exploring together how to facilitate the formation of Kingdom-hearted, gospel-loving disciples of Jesus Christ. Seth, his wife, Heather, and their twin daughters, Lucia and Alethia, live in Greenville and worship at Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Seth J. Nelson Dean of the Seminary

Rev. Seth J. Nelson
Dean of the Seminary