In 1991, hearing God's call to transition from Calvary Baptist Church into a Christian college environment, Dennis Wilhite accepted a part-time professor role at Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, PA. Pilgrimage moved with him and formalized a relationship with BBC with the inception of its first for-credit course, a 3-credit undergraduate course called Wilderness Leadership. The undergraduate course was followed quickly by an equivalent seminary course.

Pilgrimage Educational Resources became a legal dba for us in the late 1990s to subset the educational programming component of Pilgrimage from the wilderness-specific component. In 2003, PER developed and implemented the undergraduate Camp & Recreation Ministry degree program for BBC, partnering with several key residential camp ministries as immersed learning sites where students pursued up to 33 credit hours of degree-specific courses. In 2004, Dennis Wilhite earned his EdD in Educational Design from Nova Southeastern University, creating PER's graduate Organizational Leadership degree program as his thesis. This program was implemented in the Fall 2004 semester as a specialization in Baptist Bible Seminary's MMin program and then at Baptist Bible Graduate School as a MSCSE specialization in Experience-Based Education.

PER continues to grow with BBC&S and with its five other partner schools, over 10 partner learning sites and 15+ approved professors. Each year over 100 students enroll in PER courses, including the wilderness courses, three physical education courses and the respective degree programs. Each year we add more learning sites and develop more programs that apply our experience-based learning and leadership methodolgy across disciplines, training tomorrow's leaders in the same core of multi-level learning and leadership developed and honed in WILD.