IBTS closing doors in Prague

[Blake]

and is moving to Amsterdam. I really need to figure out how to get to Amsterdam. With them now moving there, the Baptist seminary, Mennonite seminary, Mennonite Archives and Oxford just across the way you really can't ask for a better setup to study early Baptist-Anabaptist history. It is disappointing though that Eastern European Baptists will lose such a great resource.

[Timothy Bonney]

Didn't the seminary use to be in Switzerland? They've been on the move!

[Ed Pettibone]

Didn't the seminary use to be in Switzerland? They've been on the move!

Ed: Yep Tim, they are moving again any problem with that. I am surprised to see an 80's graduate of an SBC Seminary and even casual observer of CBF would have to ask about IBTS having been in Switzerland.

Here is a bit of their history lifted from their website. http://www.IBTS.EU

Our student community drawn from over 30 nations in our world offering undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programmes fully validated and accredited.

We are wholly owned by the European Baptist Federation (EBF), which comprises fifty Baptist Unions in membership throughout Europe, the Middle East and north Asia.

IBTS was founded in 1949 in Switzerland initially to train pastors for service in central and southern Europe. IBTS moved to Prague following the collapse of communism and our newly renovated premises were opened in 1997.

And Blake, while not a convenient IBTS is not being "lost' to the Czech Republic.

Amsterdam is a rather easy one days drive from Prague. Around 8.5 hours. 550 mi.

Over night by train 10 hours.

[Blake]

And Blake, while not a convenient IBTS is not being "lost' to the Czech Republic.

Amsterdam is a rather easy one days drive from Prague. Around 8.5 hours. 550 mi.

Over night by train 10 hours.

The Czech Republic is on the west end of Eastern Europe. There are a lot of countries much further away that are going to have to afford to send students even farther for the quality of education IBTS offered.