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CBC Fact Sheet
The Merger Report, issued by headquarters, contends that the merger is the right thing to do primarily for four reasons:
1) "The A/G will be better off financially"
2) "CBC graduates will be better educated"
3) "It will be better for spreading the Pentecostal gospel"
4) "We must adapt to a changing culture"
Please allow us to rebut these arguments one at a time:
1. "A/G WILL BE BETTER OFF FINANCIALLY"
- How can we spend $100,000,000 (see last page of merger report) on a merger and improve the A/G’s financial position when EU and CBC are pre-existing schools?
- If debt load, mentioned in the last section of the Commission’s report, is such a concern, why would we merge CBC into EU when EU has nearly ten times the debt load of CBC (ask headquarters to see the March 18, 2005 memo from Dr Wood on transforming higher education)?
- Why would we merge CBC into EU when CBC has one of the healthiest operational budgets of any of the 19 A/G schools?
- Two consecutive years of running in the black
- Net assets up over half a million in last 12 months
- Nearly half a million in improvement projects over the summer
- Increased buildable campus acreage by over 50% in last year
- Reduced long term debt from $4.2 million to $1.69 million
- Wiped out accumulated deficit of $1.75 million this year
- Why would our leadership insist on merging AGTS with EU and CBC when AGTS requires $1,000,000 per year in subsidies and neither EU nor CBC receive any annual monies from the A/G?
2. "CBC GRADUATES WILL BE BETTER EDUCATED"
- Being educated differently is not automatically the same as being educated better
- This year, CBC passed three accreditation reviews with historically significant, outstanding success: NCA (academic accreditation), ABHE (professional [bible] accreditation), and our own COCHE.
- NCA gave CBC a zero recommendation (bad things to fix) report; the visiting team chair had never seen one of these before in his many years of accrediting schools!
- ABHE gave CBC a one recommendation report; the visiting team chair had never seen a report this good for any ABHE school in his circa 20 years of doing evaluations!
- Neither AGTS nor EU can boast these types of accreditation results!
- To God be the glory for CBC’s success!
3. "ALL THE BETTER TO SPREAD THE PENTECOSTAL GOSPEL"
- Oh? How would that work if one of our own A/G schools, that has already undergone this transformation—Vanguard University (former Southern California Bible College) has faculty that are 60% non-A/G?
- CBC’s faculty is 100% A/G!
4. "WE MUST ADAPT TO CULTURAL CHANGES"
- One of the classic arguments here is that Islamic countries don’t allow graduates of Bible colleges into their country
- The former Soviet Union didn’t allow Bibles into their country either; but, Brother Andrew still got them over the border in plain sight
- The solution to denied access is called prayer NOT diluting a bible-centered education!
- Is responding to the culture another way of saying we’re using “situational Gospel?” Just like situational ethics only changing who we are to get the world to accept us?
- Don’t recall Jesus doing that with the prostitute at the well, or the tax collector, or the rich young ruler or the Scribes and Pharisees.
- Seems like he was “the same—yesterday, today and forever.”
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