ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) — In the fall of 2025, Gateway Seminary’s regional campus in Fremont, California, will relocate to the Bridges Bay Area Association facility in San Leandro, California.

The Fremont property is under contract to be sold and is scheduled to close this summer.

“The challenges of offering theological education in the San Francisco Bay Area demand a new strategy,” said Gateway President Adam Groza.

Student surveys have shown the two largest barriers preventing students from participating in in-person education are travel time and the cost of tuition. Highway traffic, delays crossing bridges from one region to another and public transportation options restrict students who prefer to study on campus into online or remote access classes. Financial pressures, including inflation and high cost of living, have caused students to postpone seminary education.

“Proceeds from the sale of the Fremont property will allow the seminary to support new teaching sites and fund a scholarship,” Groza said.

“Strategic teaching site locations across Northern California and our regional presence in San Leandro will alleviate excessive drive-times for on-campus students.”

From the new regional campus, staff will manage a growing network of teaching sites. Each semester, classes will be offered in San Leandro, around the Bay Area and throughout Northern California.

Sacramento, located 90 miles northeast of the seminary’s old campus in Mill Valley, will host the first teaching site outside of the Bay Area. Classes are already being offered in the state capital through a partnership with Spring of Life Ukrainian Church.

Groza said partnerships have been vital for Gateway in the past and will continue to be so in the future.

“Cooperation is a necessity to solving the challenges of offering theological education in the San Francisco Bay Area,” he said.

“By strengthening existing partnerships and building new ones, we hope to train more students in more churches in Northern California for greater kingdom impact.”