Enrolments in Bible Colleges

Posted on August 9, 2025 
Filed under Encouragement, Resources

Some historical perspective and a challenge from David Cook:

“Moore College and SMBC experienced record enrolments in 1960, 1969 and 1980.

I was part of the student enrolment in SMBC in 1969, we had 35 men enrolled in our year compared to 7 men in the year before.

What had happened?

Billy Graham had conducted campaigns in Sydney in 1959, 1968 and 1979.

There is a direct relationship between lively, faithful, engaging Bible preaching and people both being saved and people offering themselves to train for ministry.

Here in Sydney in my own denomination, J. Graham Miller’s ministry at Hurstville Presbyterian was the catalyst God used to call numbers of men into training in the late 1970s,  Phillip Jensen at Uni of NSW was similarly used of God.

Men and women would be changed by such preaching and would be so challenged that they gave serious prayerful consideration as to make such ministry their life’s vocation. …”

– Do read it all – at The Expository Preaching Trust.

And see the end of his article for some fine aids for preachers.

See also:

Daily Bread’s Journey Through.

On Graham Miller’s Method for “Personal Daily Bible Study”.

Image: David as a guest preacher at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate.