History
Southwestern Bible School
Nineteen twenty-seven...original Southwestern Bible School is established in Enid, Oklahoma under leadership of Rev. P.C. Nelson...September, nineteen thirty-one...Rev. Guy Shields founded Shield of Faith School in Amarillo, Texas...later Southern Bible College was organized in Houston, Texas in connection with the Richey Tabernacle...
Rev. Guy Shields
Nineteen thirty-five...Shield of Faith Bible School moved to Ft. Worth, Texas...Five years later the Southern Bible College and the Shield of Faith were taken over by Texas District Council of the Assemblies of God...the new school was renamed "South Central Bible Institute"...
Fall, nineteen forty-one...Southwestern Bible School from Enid is consolidated with South Central Bible Institute in Ft. Worth...from this final merger the three schools become "Southwestern Bible Institute"
Onward march...nineteen forty-three...the present
location in Waxahachie, Texas was purchased by the Texas District Council.
Dean W.B. McCafferty sees the Bible School as a vital instrument combating the forces of modernism and bringing anew the Christian faith to a bewildered generation...