Prairie College

Mom and dad were 26, 27 years old, fairly recently out of Bible school in Alberta, Canada.

My dad was Canadian and my mother American, and they met at a place called Prairie Bible Institute, north of Calgary.

And they had heard a speaker talk about all these lost tribes out there in New Guinea that had been surveyed from military aircraft, you know, during World War II, and just the smoke of a thousand villages everywhere.

So this speaker with the British accent had challenged the student body to take the message of Christ to these other worlds,

You fill me with the clear certainty that you exist and that you watch to see that all the paths of righteousness be not closed.

And I think of my dear Canadian mom, I think of dear Mrs. Cunningham, who was the wife of the man who was in charge of the furnaces at Prairie Bible Institute.

And I was just a freshman there, a student, and she was just an almost unsung little lady who lived in a basement apartment.

And whenever I would go to visit her, which she often invited me to do, we would have a cup of tea.

One of them was the house mother in the dormitory when I was a student in Wheaton College.

Another one was an older lady when I was a student at Prairie Bible Institute, and she was just like a spiritual mother to me.

And she told me, she said, anytime you would like to have a little cup of tea, just pop down to my little apartment.

and we'll have a cup of tea.

And this is a case study.

Dr. Klawe has been a sessional instructor for the MA Educational Leadership Program at Trinity Western University and for the Masters of Global Christian Education Program at Prairie College.

He is also ordained through the Evangelical Free Church of Canada and was an associate pastor for 10 years and transitional pastor for three months.

Dr. Klawe has been actively involved with ACSI Western Canada for many years, from delivering workshops at teacher conventions in Western and Eastern Canada, to leading workshops at the board admin conferences, to hosting professional development days at schools and serving on the ACSI Western Canada board.

Elizabeth Elliott grew up in a home steeped in this holiness theology, Keswick holiness theology specifically.

She goes to Wheaton College, right, also part of this tradition, and then to Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, also part of this tradition.

Her great-great-uncle actually founded the American Keswick Organization, right, conference.

And so steeped in this, a treasured copy of Hannah's book, was passed down through her family line and ends up on her bookshelf, right? But in Elizabeth Elliot's hands, ultimately, total surrender, this total surrender to God becomes conflated with total surrender to the man that God has placed in authority over you.

And I remember particularly singing this hymn when I was a Bible school student in Alberta.

I went to a Bible school called Prairie Bible Institute up in Three Hills, Alberta, a school founded by a wonderful man by the name of L.E. Maxwell, author of a number of books.

a man who had gone from Kansas City Bible College, I think it was, up to the prairies of Alberta because there were some farmers up there that wanted some Bible teaching.

And they had written down to Kansas City Bible College asking if there was a student graduating who could come up and teach them the Bible.