Administrative History

In 1938, I.T. Ewert began to teach evening Bible classes in Virgil, Ontario. The following year the Virgil–Vineland Bible School Society was formed and B.B. Bolt was the instructor in Vineland, Ontario. Instruction was discontinued during 1941–1942 due to the war. Classes were resumed in 1942 in Virgil, Ontario, under the name Virgil Bible School. In 1945, a high school was added onto the same campus and name became Virgil Bible and High School, which created some friction. In 1948, the Ontario Mennonite Brethren Conference assumed administration and all other responsibilities from the Virgil Bible School Society. The Ontario Conference decided it best that the Bible School move off the Virgil campus in 1954[?] to a new location in Kitchener, Ontario, at the Kitchener Mennonite Brethren Church. The new location gave both schools—the high school came to be called Eden Christian College in 1956—more breathing room; however, it did not solve the problem of low enrollment in the Bible School. The Bible School closed its doors in 1963.