- Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women
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name=Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women
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motto=The entrance of thy words giveth light..
established=1922
type=Propaedeutic institute
president=Rev. G. J. Frederick
principal=Rev. Lalitha Krupa Rao
students=
city=Tuni
district=East Godavari
state=Andhra Pradesh
country=India
coor =coord|17|21|45|N|82|32|38|E|type:edu
address =Tuni ,East Godavari District ,Andhra Pradesh 533 401,India
campus=Rural
telephone = 91 08854 253090
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website=
footnotes=Data as of September 2008Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women was founded in the year 1922 [Annie Innis Dagg, "The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and their books 1836-1945", Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001, ISBN 0889203555, 9780889203556. Page 318. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=IJwyLyaT9KYC&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=eva+rose+york+bible+training+school+tuni&source=web&ots=TQXDP-PFiC&sig=F4uICCBfleN7kKwIXhM-fFTJf6M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result] ] by theCanadian Baptist Mission (CBM). The school is located inTuni inAndhra Pradesh ,India .Background
Missionaries of the Canadian Baptist Mission were involved in spreading awareness about the Bible in northern circars of
Andhra Pradesh Martin Senftleben, "Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh". UnpublishedPh.D. thesis, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati, 1992. "p. 61" [http://www.drmartinus.de/bio/de/thesis1.pdf] ] . 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 [M. L. Orchard & Katherine S. McLaurin, "The Enterprise: The Jubilee Story of the Canadian Baptist Mission in India, 1874-1924", Toronto, The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board, 1925. See especially Mattie Currie, "Among the Telugus: The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board", a report published by CBFMB, Toronto, 1936. 93-94. Cited by James Elisha in "Empowering Mission or Enslaving Enterprise? Women Missionaries’ attitudes to Telugu Women in Bangalore Theological Forum", Volume XXXIX, 1 June 2007.] .
Winfred Eaton, a missionary of the Canadian Baptist Mission began classes in
Palakonda in 1922 with a few girlsLalitha Krupa Rao, "Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women", Tuni, Consultation 17-22 April 2007.] . Later in 1925, the school was relocated inTuni .It was Eva Rose YorkElaine Keillor, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003752] ] "(22.12.1858-1938)", an early Canadian
composer andteacher who lent support [Annie Innis Dagg, "op. cit. "] for the buildings in the campus inTuni . Eva Rose Fitch was born inNorwich, 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 inBelleville andToronto before she decided in 1899 to devote her time to looking after girls who had become prostitutes. York founded a home for the women which she ran until 1914 before she left to spend fifteen years as an itinerant preacher. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IJwyLyaT9KYC&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=%22Eva+Rose+York%22&source=web&ots=TQXDU2PCey&sig=Pj-M1Ik1KJB5gTv3rvbb3SftaMQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA318,M1 The Feminist Gaze] , Anne Innis Dagg, 2001, ISBN 0889203555, accessed1 October 2008 ] Her efforts have caused her name to be immortalised here, but her talents as a poet have also kept her memory. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1aftqjdzCOIC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=%22Eva+Rose+York%22&source=web&ots=oTFm_LUyIc&sig=ng8Er8q6cgFgPyiUrEC24MRvljU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA162,M1 101 Famous Poems] , Roy Jay Cook, accessed1 October 2008 ]The school is still partly supported by funds raised in Canada by Bapist women. [ [http://www.baptistwomen.com/greatcanadian.html Baptist Womem] , accessed
1 October 2008 ]Since 1987 technical courses were also begun when Jessie Rosser was Principal.Lalitha Krupa Rao, "
op. cit. "]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. G. J. Frederick heads the Seminary Council.Rev. Lalitha Krupa Rao is the present Principal of this School.Courses offered
* Diploma in Evangelism and Mission "(2 years)"
* Tailoring "(1 year)"
* Typing "(6 months)"taff
Bible wing
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Rev. Lalitha Krupa Rao
*Rev. S. Prema Kumari
*Rev. B. KumariTechnical wing
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Smt. B. BhogamReferences
;Notes
;Further reading
* cite journal
author=Annie Innis Dagg
title="The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and their books 1836-1945", Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
year=2001
volume=
issue=
url =http://books.google.co.in/books?id=IJwyLyaT9KYC&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=eva+rose+york+bible+training+school+tuni&source=web&ots=TQXDP-PFiC&sig=F4uICCBfleN7kKwIXhM-fFTJf6M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
* cite journal
author= Elaine Keillor
title="Encyclopedia of Music in Canada"
year=2008
volume=
issue=
url =http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003752
* cite journal
author=G.Beaulah Pearl Sunanda
title="An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874-1924)". Unpublished M.Phil.(History) Thesis,Madras Christian College , Madras
year=1990
volume=
issue=
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* cite journal
author=Martin Senftleben
title="Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh." Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati
year=1992
volume=I
issue=
url =http://www.drmartinus.de/bio/de/thesis1.pdf
* cite journal
author=T. James Elisha
title="Encounter between Protestant and Telugu Women’s Paradigms of Scripture, Boston College."
year=2007
volume=
issue=
url =http://escholarship.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=engaging_cp
* cite journal
author=T. James Elisha
title="Empowering Mission or Enslaving Enterprise? Women Missionaries’ attitudes to Telugu Women in Bangalore Theological Forum"
year=1 June 2007
volume=XXXIX
issue=
url =
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