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Hyles–Anderson College (HAC) is an unaccredited Independent Baptist college in unincorporated Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana.〔Spivak, Diane ''Hyles' birthplace to be rebuilt on campus: Texas home of college co-founder will rest at Hyles-Anderson'' Northwest Indiana Times 7 November 2001〕 As a ministry of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, it focuses on training pastors, missionaries and Christian teachers to work in Independent Baptist schools. ==History== In 1972, Hyles–Anderson College was founded by Jack Hyles with financial support from Russell Anderson. The school was originally located on a campus known as Baptist City in Schererville, Indiana. HAC's former campus was turned into Hammond Baptist K-12 school. This school is also operated by the First Baptist Church of Hammond. The college's first president was Robert J. Billings, who later served as Ronald Reagan's "liaison to the fundamentalist Christian movement in the 1980 presidential campaign" and then spent six years in the U.S. Education Department as well as was a founding member of the Moral Majority.〔Liebman, Robert and Robert Wuthnow (1983) The New Christian Right, p. 60. New York: Aldine Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-202-30307-9〕 Hyles-Anderson alumni have pastored over 572 churches within the US and Guam.〔http://alumni.hylesanderson.edu/church-directory〕 Over 123 alumni compose missionary families, church planters, and mission teams around the world with Fundamental Baptist Missions International〔http://www.fbmi.org/missionary〕 and many hundreds have teamed up with other mission boards as well.〔http://www.bimi.org/content/abMissionaries.php〕〔http://www.fbhm.org〕〔http://fbwwm.org〕 One graduate, Jon Nelms, started the Final Frontiers Foundation mission board, which has led to the creation of over 44,000 churches world-wide.〔http://www.finalfrontiers.org/〕 When Hyles died in 2001, his son-in-law Jack Schaap, a 1979 graduate and former vice president of the school since 1996, became chancellor. That same year Hyles' boyhood home, a 384 square foot (36 square meter) shack in Italy, Texas was purchased to create a museum to honor Hyles and was shipped from Texas to Hyles–Anderson College.〔Associated Press ''Texas childhood home of prominent minister planned as Indiana museum'' Schererville, Ind. November 6, 2001〕 Schaap was removed as chancellor in 2012 after federal officials began looking into child abuse allegations, which Schaap later pled guilty to. In 2012, ''Chicago Magazine'' reported that the school "appears to be struggling" with only 1,000 students enrolled, down from 2,700 in its peak.〔 Schaap noted that donations dropped and staff lay-offs occurred before his arrest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hyles–Anderson College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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