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Who We Are
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Dr. Charles Price Addresses Prairie Grads May 1, 2005 Prairie’s spring conference in 1927 overflowed with excitement as the fledgling Bible school prepared to honor its very first graduates. Watching the seven students (including four from the original class of ’22) step forward to receive their hard-earned diplomas, those who had invested their lives in a vision realized with joy that the dream had now become a reality: Prairie Bible Institute was here to stay. The excitement was no less real for families and supporters gathered in Maxwell Memorial Tabernacle on April 23 to honor the Class of 2005. The 130 students who participated in commencement ceremonies this spring were congratulated by Prairie’s president Dr. Jon Ohlhauser, who also introduced the guest speaker, Dr. Charles Price. Senior pastor of People’s Church in Toronto, Dr. Price was for many years on the staff of Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers in England and principal of Capernwray Bible School. In his message, Dr. Price reminded the graduates that “getting a degree and graduating from college does not qualify you for ministry. The measure to which we allow the life of God to operate in us and flow through us is the measure to which we’re qualified. Without Christ as our strength and power we can run churches, go to the mission field, and tell wonderful stories. But in the end, there’ll be nothing to show for it. If you will obey what He says and trust who He is, you’ll discover that He who calls you is faithful and He will do it.” On the previous day, during Prairie’s pre-graduation Evening of Celebration, twenty-one members of the Class of 1955 were welcomed back to campus to receive a Degree of Honor in recognition of 50 years of faithful service to God. Half a century ago they had stood on the same platform, young men and women about to take their place in a post-war world filled with the uncertain aftermath of global conflict. Challenged “by love constrained” to take the gospel to a lost world, many had done so and in a symbolic gesture they passed the torch to the graduating students of 2005 who joined them onstage. |
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