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In 1991, a pre-service training for the 'would-be' missionaries was instituted, and has become a one-year course, which each missionary of the Church has to go through. This missionary training centre was upgraded in 2010, and it became Missionary Training College, where anyone can study Missiology.
Founded in 1885, the Chicago Training School was started in order to educate and train women for Christian service and ministry. [3] The school grew out of the Methodist deaconess movement [4] and gave preparation for missionary work in "city, home, and foreign fields". [5] It was run by Lucy Rider Meyer, and her husband Josiah Shelley Meyer.
Missionary Training Centers (MTC) are centers devoted to training missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah , adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned and operated by the church.
Prior to its formation, the Adirondack Missionary Training Center existed in Northville, New York through the work of Melvin McNees. Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute was founded in 1962 as Adirondack Bible Institute (ABI), which was later renamed as Adirondack Bible College (ABC).
The college was established in 1943 as the Belfast Bible School and Missionary Training Home. [1] It moved to its present site, Glenburn House in 1983. [1] At the time, the college had just 35 full-time students. [1] The 2011 graduation took place in St. Annes Cathedral, Belfast, in attendance was the Lord Mayor of Belfast. [2]
All Nations is the result of the merger in 1971 of three colleges, all of which prepared people to work in cross-cultural missionary service overseas: Mt Hermon Missionary Training College (founded 1911), Ridgelands Bible College (1919), and All Nations Bible College (1923).
The predecessor to the current university was first established in 1902 as the Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School by William Bell Riley, a pastor at First Baptist Church of Minneapolis. [1] In 1935, the school opened the Northwestern Evangelical Seminary. The College of Liberal Arts was added in 1944.
In the United States and Canada, the origins of the Bible college movement are in the late 19th-century Bible institute movement. [2] The first Bible schools in North America were founded by Canadian Pastor A. B. Simpson (Nyack College in 1882) of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and D. L. Moody (Moody Bible Institute in 1887).