Our Story
Born of a church, for the church.
Independent Baptist Seminary was founded in September 2020 by Dr. Steve Damron, growing out of the training ministry of Fairhaven Baptist Church in Indiana. In 2022, Dr. T. H. Moore — pastor of Capitol Baptist Church in Dover, Delaware — became president, and the seminary found its home as a ministry of that local church.
We exist to give pastors, missionaries, teachers, and faithful church members a rigorous, Bible-centered education without pulling them away from the work God has already given them. Undergraduate certificates and degrees, master’s programs, and doctoral study are all offered through a mix of modules, online classes, correspondence, and in-person evenings.
Everything we teach is Baptistic and independent, and every course rests on the King James Version from the Textus Receptus. We are not a denominational board or a sprawling university — we are an arm of the local church, and we mean to stay that way.
In the classroom on campus at Capitol Baptist Church, Dover, Delaware.
Baptistic
Every course is taught from historic Baptist distinctives — the local church, believer's baptism, and the autonomy of the congregation.
Independent
The seminary is an arm of the local church, free of any denominational hierarchy or board that would assign authority to itself.
King James Bible
We hold to the verbal, plenary inspiration of Scripture and teach the King James Version from the Textus Receptus.
Convenient
Online, module, correspondence, and in-person options are built for the working student, the pastor, and the missionary already in the field.
President
Dr. T. H. Moore
Dr. Moore was saved on March 19, 1996 at Mainland Baptist Church in Absecon, New Jersey. In the years that followed he served his church as a Sunday school teacher, bus ministry director, and deacon.
He graduated from Northeast Baptist School of Theology in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Pastoral Theology, and later served the school as Assistant Dean and Dean of Students. He pastored Grace Baptist Church in Oxford, Pennsylvania from 2002 to 2007 and earned a Master of Ministry from Crown College.
Since January 2007 he has been the pastor of Capitol Baptist Church in Dover, Delaware. In 2019 he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Ambassador Baptist College in Lattimore, North Carolina. He became president of Independent Baptist Seminary in 2022. He and his wife have been married for over thirty-five years and have three children.
Founder & Director
Dr. Steve Damron
Dr. Steve Damron was born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 17, 1971. He began attending Fairhaven Baptist College in 1989 and went on to serve as the youth pastor at Fairhaven Baptist Church for twenty years, founding the Empowered Youth Conference and the TnT Saturday outreach.
He married Becky Voegtlin in 1994, and together they have four children — Jennifer, Sabrina, Jake, and Clint. In 2012 he became the pastor of Fairhaven Baptist Church, then stepped down in the spring of 2022 to direct Independent Baptist Seminary full-time.
Dr. Damron has authored several books and gospel tracts and produces regular podcasts and preaching resources at BaptistPulpit.com. He founded Independent Baptist Seminary in September 2020.
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Our courses are taught by proven professor-pastors from across the country.
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