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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.
Redcliffe College was founded on 5 April 1892 as the YWCA Testing and Training Home. [1] Originally based at 495 Kings Road, Chelsea, in 1896 497 Kings Road was purchased and a door was made between the two houses. Redcliffe was the first institution to provide missionary service training for women.
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).
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).
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.
Ethnos360 requires all candidates to complete a training program. [16] The training program can take up to four years to complete. In the US, this training culminates in an unaccredited bachelor's degree. [17] Major Bible colleges such as Moody Bible Institute and Columbia International University recognize credits and degrees from Ethnos360. [18]
CFNI is a member of the Association of Christian Schools International, is approved by the United States Department of Homeland Security to enroll international students, and has approval from the Department of Veterans Affairs for veteran training. [2] Christ for the Nations Institute is not state accredited.
Four Baptist institutions merged over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries to form Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (CRCDS) as it exists today. Its earliest roots are in the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later Colgate Theological Seminary), which began in Hamilton, New York, in the early 1820s under the auspices of the New York Baptist Union for Ministerial Education.