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Hyles Anderson recently celebrated it's 50th anniversary. It like many other institutions has changed over its 53-year life span.

In 1972 D. Jack Hyles, along with Russell Anderson, started a Bible college whose goal, vision, and purpose was to train men to be preachers and pastor that would bring revival to America. The school' had a growth spurt that lasted about 20 years, then leveled out somewhat. The highest enrollment for any year was about 1700-1800. When I attended in the mid 1980's there were 3 student demographics that led to 2 distinct student bodies. There were older married men, single just out of high school men, and single ladies. As the college has changed over the years there are no more older married students. The internet and online education has pretty much ended that.
 
I attended early years 1975-1977. I met and married my husband in college. We left in 1983 for south Florida. This has been my home which I love after the death of my husband I have remained here. I would not go back to hac it has changed.
 
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Hyles Anderson recently celebrated it's 50th anniversary. It like many other institutions has changed over its 53-year life span.

In 1972 D. Jack Hyles, along with Russell Anderson, started a Bible college whose goal, vision, and purpose was to train men to be preachers and pastor that would bring revival to America. The school' had a growth spurt that lasted about 20 years, then leveled out somewhat. The highest enrollment for any year was about 1700-1800. When I attended in the mid 1980's there were 3 student demographics that led to 2 distinct student bodies. There were older married men, single just out of high school men, and single ladies. As the college has changed over the years there are no more older married students. The internet and online education has pretty much ended that.
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The demographics you cite of the seventies and eighties squares with my experience which was from 1976-81. Many of the "older married men" of that era had pastored churches prior to coming to HAC. They felt the need for more training to be more successful at pastoring. Many had never before attended a college. In that regard very few could provide that sort of training better than Bro. Hyles. As the the old preacher once said, " he put the jelly on the bottom shelf so the young kids could reach it." I think that was also the attraction of Pastor's School in those days. Bro. Hyles had, what is known in business school today as a "scalable model." You could take his methods and replicate them elsewhere to a certain extent.

I wondered if there were many married students these days. The photos I see don't seem to display many or any. I think, like with Pastor's School, the idea of replicating what is now at FBC is pretty much gone. FBC seems to be a mid size to large church that is viable, but not the ministry Bro. Hyles left behind 24 years ago.

Do you know if the bus ministry, especially in Chicago, is what it was fifty years ago? Simply because the college cannot produce the manpower that it did then to work all of those routes, I would think it would have to be a shadow of what it was forty years ago. Are students still required to go soul winning each week and work a bus route for at least a year?
 
Ministry and particularly the Bus ministry is still very strong at HAC. Now they don't have as many workers as they used to, so they have had to scale back their outreach a bit. The bus ministry is organized in north side routes and south side routes. There may be others but the 2 division numbers I've heard are division 1 and division 7. On the north side they have started a church. The bus riders are taken to this church where there is SS, preaching etc. The south side goes to FBC.
 
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