Vancouver Bible Training School

VANCOUVER BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL was founded in 1918 to train lay Protestant evangelists for work as missionaries, teachers and pastoral assistants. It was only the second school of its type in Canada. R.W. Sharpe, a Baptist businessman, put up much of the money to run the school, and its longtime principal (1918–44) was Rev Walter Ellis, Vancouver's leading conservative evangelical minister. The name changed in 1950 to Vancouver Bible Institute, and then to Vancouver Bible College after it...

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