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Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women was founded in 1922 by the Canadian Baptist Mission (CBM). The school is located in Tuni in Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Background
Missionaries of the Canadian Baptist Mission were involved in spreading awareness about the Bible in northern circars of Andhra Pradesh. The missionaries began arriving in India as early as 1868.
Early missionaries also believed that women can be used as potential instruments for spreading awareness about the Bible.
Winfred Eaton, a missionary of the Canadian Baptist Mission began classes in Palakonda in 1922 with a few girls. Later in 1925, the school was relocated in Tuni.
It was Eva Rose York (22.12.1858-1938), an early Canadian composer and teacher who lent support for the buildings in the campus in Tuni. Eva Rose Fitch was born in Norwich, Ontario where she attended college and married Doctor Winford York in 1879. York studied music and after her husband died in 1880 she took up both the study of the organ and became a born-again Christian. She founded choirs in Belleville and Toronto before she decided in 1899 to devote her time to establishing a home, Redemption House, for unwed mothers in Toronto. York founded a home for the women which she ran until 1914 before she left to spend fifteen years as an itinerant preacher. Her efforts have caused her name to be immortalised here, but her talents as a poet have also kept her memory.
The school is still partly supported by funds raised in Canada by Bapist women.
Since 1987 technical courses were also begun when Jessie Rosser was Principal.
Administration
Since the missionary days, the School was run independently. However, since 1989, the School fell under the purview of the Seminary Council of the Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada. Rev. K. J. Emmanuel heads the Seminary Council. Rev. D. J. Jeremiah is the present Principal of this School.
The Canadian Baptist Ministries past overseers in India Rev. G. Babu Rao and Mr. M. David K. Sarma were also responsible for the functioning of the School.