Elim Bible Institute and College

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Elim Bible Institute and College
Genesee College Hall Aug 09.jpg
Former name
Elim Bible Institute
Type Private college
Established1924;99 years ago (1924)
Founder Ivan Q. Spencer
Accreditation TRACS
Religious affiliation
 Christian
President Fred Antonelli
Provost Danuta Case
Academic staff
26 (6 full-time, 20 part-time and adjunct) [1]
Total staff
52
Location
Lima
,
New York
,
United States
CampusSmall-town, 75 acres (30 ha)
Language English
Colors     Blue, orange, white
MascotJudah the Lion
Website elim.edu

Elim Bible Institute and College is a private Christian college in Lima, New York. It awards bachelor's degrees, an associate degree, and one-year certificates.

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History

Elim was founded in 1924 in Endwell, New York, by Ivan Q. and Minnie Spencer. The school is named for a biblical location found in Exodus 15:27, wherein Elim is described as an oasis in the wilderness. [2] [3]

In the 1920s, the school moved to Rochester and Red Creek and then in 1932 to Hornell, where it was located until 1951, when the Spencers moved Elim to its current site in Lima. [4] [5]

Beginning in 1948, Elim was a center for the Latter Rain Movement. [6] [7]

Ivan Q. Spencer headed Elim Bible Institute for many years from its founding. In 1949 he was succeeded in that position by his son, I. Carlton Spencer, who also led Elim Fellowship for many years. [8] [9] [10] Subsequently, H. David Edwards and Michael Webster each served as president of the institution. Paul Johansson, who was a student at Elim from 1956 to 1959, became the school's president in 1994. In 2006, Jeff Clark, who completed his own studies at Elim in 1978, succeeded Johansson as president. [8] [11] In 2012, Michael Cavanaugh, founder of Elim Gospel Church (now Elim Life Church) [12] and a 1976 graduate of Elim, succeeded Jeff Clark. [13] Fred Antonelli was elected as the new president of Elim Bible Institute and College in August 2019 and was installed in May 2020. [14]

Campus history

The Elim campus in Lima was originally the site of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which opened in 1831 as one of the first coeducational schools in the United States, constructing the buildings now known as College Hall and Spencer Hall in the Greek Revival style. Genesee College was founded on the same campus in 1849 as an expansion of the seminary. The two institutions shared the campus until 1870 when Genesee College relocated to Syracuse, where it became the basis of Syracuse University. The seminary continued to occupy the campus until it closed in 1941. [15]

Shortly thereafter, the National Youth Administration (NYA), a New Deal project championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, briefly made the campus the location for one of the NYA's experimental resident work centers. The center provided vocational training to underprivileged students until its closure in the summer of 1942. [16]

The Methodist Church operated a new Genesee Junior College at the site from 1947 to 1951, when Elim Bible Institute bought the 75-acre (300,000 m2) campus and buildings for $75,000. [15] Two campus buildings, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College Hall, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [17]

Accreditation

For most of its history, Elim Bible Institute was not accredited and awarded certificate diplomas rather than degrees. In 2020, the institute was accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. [18]

Academics

Elim Bible Institute and College offers accredited degree programs in Biblical Theology and Business Management, including a Bachelor of Science in Theology, a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, and an Associate of Applied Science in Biblical and Theological Studies. In addition to the degree programs, Elim also offers the accredited one-year Launch certificate program and the less-rigorous and unaccredited Spiritual Enrichment Certificate program. [19]

Elim Fellowship was formed in 1933 as an informal fellowship of churches, ministers, and missionaries originating from a nucleus of people who had attended Elim Bible Institute. The incorporated Fellowship continues to support Pentecostal and Charismatic churches, ministers, and missions, providing credentials and counsel for ministers, encouraging fellowship among local churches, sponsoring leadership seminars, and also serving as a transdenominational agency sending missionaries and other personnel to other countries. [20] [21]

Elim Life Church (formerly Elim Gospel Church), an interdenominational Full Gospel church, was established neighboring the Elim campus in 1988 and is attended by a significant number of the College's faculty and students. [22]

Notable alumni

Randall Terry (class of 1981) and Rob Schenck founded the anti-abortion activist group Operation Rescue after studying together at Elim in the early 1980s. Their activism was motivated by their exposure at Elim to the teachings of theologian Francis Schaeffer, whose then-recent book A Christian Manifesto encouraged evangelicals to engage in political activism to combat secular humanism. [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]

Anti-abortion activist and religious leader Paul Schenck, twin brother of Rob Schenck, also attended Elim. [27] [29]

Pastor Marvin Byers was a minister ordained by Elim Fellowship who studied in 1966 to 1969, and in the year 1977 he was invited to minister in Guatemala City, sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to great effect in Guatemala and Latin America. Following his calling from God, he stayed there to found Hebron Ministries, still headquartered in Guatemala City. [30]

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  1. ↑ "Faculty".
  2. ↑ Our History Archived 2010-05-15 at the Wayback Machine , Elim Bible Institute website, accessed May 24, 2010
  3. ↑ "About", Elim Bible Institute website, accessed May 24, 2010
  4. ↑ James Goche (May 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College Hall". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ Benjamin and Sarah Dodzweit Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine , Corpus Christi Bible College website, accessed May 25, 2010
  6. ↑ Peter Althouse (2003), Spirit of the last days: Pentecostal Eschatology in Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann , Volume 25 of Journal of Pentecostal Theology , Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN   0-8264-6685-0, ISBN   978-0-8264-6685-3
  7. ↑ Richard M. Riss, Singing In the Spirit in the Holiness, Pentecostal, Latter Rain, and Charismatic Movements, paper delivered at Orlando '95, a conference sponsored by the North American Renewal Service Committee, July 28, 1995. Retrieved from Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Inquiry International, May 24, 2010
  8. 1 2 Presidential Reflections: 80 Years of Ministry Archived 2010-09-20 at the Wayback Machine , Elim Bell Tower, Summer 2004
  9. ↑ Pentecostal Denominations, Seeking4Truth.com website, accessed May 25, 2010
  10. ↑ "Private Site".
  11. ↑ Winds of Change: Generation to Generation Archived 2010-09-20 at the Wayback Machine , Elim Bell Tower, Summer 2006
  12. ↑ "About Us – Elim Life Church" . Retrieved June 19, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Pastor Mike Cavanaugh - Elim Bible Institute". Archived from the original on February 12, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  14. ↑ "Dr. Fred Antonelli Elected as New President of Elim Bible Institute and College".
  15. 1 2 Joyce Rapp, Historic Lima
  16. ↑ Gordon Halstead (Project Director of NYA Resident Work Center, Lima, NY), Work—Study—Live: The Resident Youth Centers of the NYA Archived 2007-07-01 at the Wayback Machine , The New Deal Network website (accessed June 25, 2007)
  17. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  18. ↑ "Accreditation".
  19. ↑ "Academic Programs". Elim Bible Institute and College.
  20. ↑ "Elim Fellowship: About Elim". Archived from the original on April 26, 2007. Retrieved June 26, 2007.
  21. ↑ "Wellsville Full Gospel Church website". Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved June 26, 2007.
  22. ↑ Elim Gospel Church website
  23. ↑ Max Blumenthal, God's Country; Lobbying for a theocracy, one member of Congress at a time Archived 2009-06-06 at the Wayback Machine , The Washington Monthly, October 2003.
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  25. ↑ Jeanie Kasendorf, Abortion in New York, New York , September 18, 1989. Page 38.
  26. ↑ Karen Tumulty and Lynn Smith, Operation Rescue: Soldier in a 'Holy War' on Abortion, Los Angeles Times , March 17, 1989
  27. 1 2 Eyal Press (2007), Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America , Macmillan, ISBN   0-312-42657-7, ISBN   978-0-312-42657-6. Pages 129–131.
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  30. ↑ Hebron Ministres official web page: https://hebronministries.com/

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