Moore Theological College

Moore College has been providing excellent evangelical theological education for more than 165 years.

Our mission is to provide the best theological formation for evangelical ministry, inspirational teaching, and scholarship and research that enriches learning and extends theological knowledge.
By doing this, our hope is to develop:

• a fellowship of faithful pastor-teachers serving the churches and other ministries in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, around Australia, and throughout the world.
• theological educators for seminaries both in and beyond Australia.
• Centres that shape Christian thinking and witness in the wider Christian community.

The College has been blessed through the gifts in wills of several supporters over the years. Major gifts at the end of life have been of great importance to the College. In fact, Moore College began as the result of a gift in a will. When Thomas Moore passed away in 1840, he gifted a large portion of his estate to the establishment of a college in Sydney.

Moore Theological College was opened in 1856 with three students and one tutor. Since then, more than 6,000 students have graduated from accredited courses and now close to 1000 students are studying the Moore Preliminary Theological Certificate course in over 50 different countries.

180 years after this initial gift in will, we’d like to ask you to prayerfully consider joining this important ministry through making a gift in your own will to Moore College. We do have the following areas of priority:

• Building & property endowments
• The Scholarship endowment
• Faculty endowments
• The Library endowment
• Moore College Centres

However, general gifts in wills will be used where they are needed most, determined by our Governing Board and College priorities.

If you wish to consider this as a way to support the work of the College, it would be good for you to have a conversation with the Moore College Foundation before adding Moore College to your will. In this way, we could help you to identify how you would like to make the gift and for what purpose.

Thank you for considering Moore College and ways you might invest in the future of theological education.

Download the brochure here: MooreCollege-bequests-brochure