If we begin with Christ and continue with Christ, we have the assurance that we will be blessed.
Junior College Society newsletter, 1956

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This has been a calling of God. We had the right time, the right board, and now we have good people on campus. I feel that the Lord is going to bless [Trinity]. We’re going to have a lot of leaders coming out of Trinity as time goes by.

Now it’s time to make another major move into the Chicago area. We need to understand that that is a great privilege at this time in history. This country…needs Trinity more than we needed it back in the 50s and 60s.

--Dr. Art DeKruyter


We are very much interested in a college where Christ is central, and we see that in Trinity. After we look at Christ being central, we like to look at it from a biblical viewpoint and from a Reformed viewpoint. We think that the faculty, the administration and the subsequent boards have carried that out very well.

God has blessed the efforts of many people in order to accomplish what is in existence at Trinity today.

We thank God for what he’s doing. It’s his work.

--Ike and Evelyn Slagter


I see young people coming out of Trinity—beautiful kids who love the Lord, who got an education and are proficient in their work, and who are quick to speak about the blessing of their parents, their friends, and Trinity Christian College.

I hope and pray that the story might spread and that more and more young people would come to realize the true meaning of a Christian education.

That’s what it takes—dedication. A true belief in the Word, in the Bible. That is the foundation Trinity stands on.  

The graduates that have gone out into the world are doing a great job, and I think that’s due to the commitment they have for the teachings of the Bible and to the Lord Jesus Christ. They’re well-rounded, and all through the teachings at Trinity, from what I hear and what I see, that’s the core—the real, solid core—of Trinity.

--Marty Ozinga, Jr.


Today the tendency is almost anti-Christian in the educational communities outside of definitely Christian communities.
What we wanted to do at Trinity Christian College is to develop leaders who are educationally competent, but who are morally Christian. Trinity has attempted to develop Christian people, to develop a person’s priorities, as well as to equip them in whatever profession they have chosen to serve God in.

[Faculty] are as interested in developing the person as they are in educating them [and giving] them a world and life view which is Biblically oriented.

My greatest sentiment is one of gratitude to God for what we have in Trinity. Its growth has been very satisfactory, I would almost say phenomenal. When you go back and see what we started with, our goal has been exceeded.  The important thing is not the size of the College, but the quality of the College. I hope we will stand firm in the Word and be distinctively Christian.  

--Dr. George DeJong


I see so many people who I have gotten to know, who have been students at Trinity, who are an inspiration to so many other people. Some of them go to my church, and I just feel as though these people are really leaders. This is what you really hope when you send [people] to a Christian college, that they come back to their communities and share what they have learned and become leaders of the people.  

I feel Trinity has been so blessed. So many students have come out of there with a whole new attitude about life. That is one of the most wonderful things you could do for a young person.  

--Jessie Alderden