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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox university Charlotte Swenson Memorial Bible Training School (CSMBTS) was started on 8 July 1926[1] in Rajahmundry, a town in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Background

Blenda Charlotte Swenson[2] a graduate of Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas) was deputed by the Lutheran Mission Board to go out to India as a Zenana Sister. During her work in India at Rajahmundry, she envisioned the establishment of a Bible Training School for Christian women where they would be prepared as teachers of the Bible in Hindu homes.[1]

Administration

The present principal of this school is Rev. B. Subhashini.

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Preceded by
Rev. Dr B. V. Subbamma
Principalship of CSMBTS
1985–Incumbent
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church
Charlotte Swensson Memorial Bible Training School, Rajahmundry
  • 1926–1928 Sr. Christina Erickson, ELCA
  • 1928–1951 Sr. Hildegarde Swanson, ELCA (interrupted)
  • 1930–1931 Sr. Hilda Kaercher, ELCA
  • 1937–1939 Sr. Jessie Cronk, ELCA
  • 1951–1955 Sr. Maida Meissner, ELCA
  • 1955–1959 Sr. Ethel Dentzer, ELCA
  • 1959–1985 Sr. B. V. Subbamma, AELC
  • 1985– Sr. Subhashini, AELC

References

Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 B. V. Subbamma (Ed.), History of Charlotte Swenson Memorial Bible Training School, Rajahmundry, 1961.
  2. ↑ Oscar Nils Olson (1950). The Augustana Lutheran Church in America. https://books.google.com/books?id=qdxLAAAAMAAJ&q=blenda+charlotte+swenson&dq=blenda+charlotte+swenson. 
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