Master's College and Seminary

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This article is about a Pentecostal college and seminary in Ontario. For the evangelical college and seminary in California, see The Master's University.

Coordinates: 44°19′17″N 78°19′11″W / 44.32145°N 78.3197°W / 44.32145; -78.3197

Master's College and Seminary
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TypePrivate Bible college and seminary
Established1939 as Ontario Pentecostal Bible College
1948 name changed to Eastern Pentecostal Bible College
1996 Canadian Pentecostal Seminary began
2001, merger
Affiliation
  • CHEC
  • ABHE
  • Tyndale University College and Seminary
Religious affiliation
Pentecostal
PresidentRich Janes
Academic staff
5 core and 25 adjuncts
1 Dean and various adjuncts (seminary)
Students250
Location
Peterborough and Toronto
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Ontario
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Canada
CampusUrban
ColoursGrey and burgundy
Websitewww.mcs.edu Edit this at Wikidata
MCS administration building

Master's College and Seminary (MCS) is a Pentecostal institution of higher education in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario, that consists of a residential Bible college,a church-based seminary in Toronto affiliated with , and a global distance education program.

History[]

The creation of Master's College and Seminary brought together the two primary Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) schools in Eastern Canada. The college began as Ontario Pentecostal Bible School in 1939 in Toronto, Ontario.[1] In 1948, to reflect the expansion of the school's constituency to include the Maritime District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada as well as the PAONL, the name was changed to Eastern Pentecostal Bible College. In 1951 the Board of Directors authorized the purchase of Nicholls Hospital in Peterborough and relocated the college to Peterborough, where it became a residential institution. In 1981 the Nicholls Hospital was torn down and was replaced by a new dorm residence for men and women. In 1984, EPBC launched a Bachelor of Theology degree program.

Master's Seminary originated in 1996 as Canadian Pentecostal Seminary (CPS), which was an initiative of the national office of the PAOC to provide training within a Pentecostal context for those with a university degree who were preparing for ministry. What began in 1996 as one campus in Toronto in partnership with Tyndale Seminary (then, Ontario Theological Seminary) was expanded the following year to include a western campus in B.C. in association with the ACTS consortium at Trinity Western University. CPS became CPS East (Dean, Van Johnson) and CPS West (Dean, Jim Lucas). By affiliating with local seminaries, CPS was able to offer accredited courses and programs under the auspices of established schools without the cost associated with building a self-standing seminary. This model would not last long due to disagreement in the denomination about whether a seminary should be run nationally when the colleges of the PAOC were under district governance. As a result, the two campuses were split in 1999, with CPS East falling under the control of districts from Ontario to the Maritimes, and CPS West, districts from Manitoba to British Columbia.

In 2000, Eastern Pentecostal Bible College was merged with Canadian Pentecostal Seminary/East and renamed Master's College and Seminary. An Act respecting Master's College and Seminary (formerly Eastern Pentecostal Bible College) was assented to June 29, 2001. The seminary remained in Toronto and soon the college would move its operations there from Peterborough, leasing a number of temporary sites which included the floor of an office building on Yonge Street and the facilities at Willowdale Pentecostal Church. To honour the divergent elements of the merger, four streams were established with separate Deans: Graduate (Dr. Van Johnson), Undergraduate (Dr. Mick Nelson), Intercultural (Dr. Lyman Kulathungham), and Discipleship (Gary Empey). Rev. Even Horton was appointed the first president. He would be followed by David Hazzard, William Morrow, and Rich Janes.

In the summer of 2010, after the former property of Master's College in Peterborough was sold to a group of Pentecostal businessmen, MCS moved its headquarters back to Peterborough along with its college campus to become the anchor tenant in its former buildings, with classes commencing there in fall 2010. Master's Seminary remained in Toronto, and in 2020-1, it celebrated its 25th anniversary as a seminary under the direction of the Dean, Dr. Van Johnson.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Michael Wilkinson, Canadian Pentecostalism: Transition and Transformation, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Canada, 2009, p. 116

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