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The school then became one of the first three "official" Nazarene educational institutions in 1908, [4] supported by the Dallas District Church of the Nazarene, and the name was changed to Peniel College. [6] In 1920, the college merged with Oklahoma Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma, which was then renamed "Bethany-Peniel College". [5]
Bethany is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Bethany has a population of 20,831 at the 2020 census, a 9.3% increase from 2010. The community was founded in 1909 by followers of the Church of the Nazarene from Oklahoma City.
In 2004 Mount Vernon Nazarene University named its new student union the William and Evelyn Prince Student Union. [3] Evelyn died August 22, 2006. Prince died December 24, 2012. Funeral services held at Bethany First Church of the Nazarene in Bethany Oklahoma with interment in Bethany Cemetery, Bethany Oklahoma.
When Peniel College merged with Oklahoma Nazarene College in 1920, the name changed to "Bethany-Peniel College". [4] Peniel was the first of four fellow Nazarene institutions that would be absorbed by the Oklahoma school. The second institution was Central Nazarene College, another Nazarene school in Texas, in 1929.
Nazarene Missions International (NMI) was founded in 1915 at the fourth General Assembly, as the Nazarene Foreign Missionary Society, with Susan Norris Fitkin, wife of financier Abram Fitkin, elected the first president. Fitkin remained in office until June 1948.
The Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm are the athletic teams that represent Southern Nazarene University, located in Bethany, Oklahoma, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division II ranks, primarily competing in the Great American Conference (GAC) since the 2012–13 academic year.
Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, Ohio (East Central) Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho (Northwest) Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois (Central) Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California (Southwest) Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma (South Central)
SNU Stadium located in Bethany, Oklahoma is the home stadium of the NCAA Division II college football team the Crimson Storm of Southern Nazarene University. SNU played their inaugural season at Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City. SNU Stadium opened on November 3, 2001. The next season SNU installed a press box. [2]