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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|School in Andhra Pradesh, India}}<br />
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{{Infobox university<br />
| name = Charlotte Swenson Memorial Bible Training School<br />
| native_name = CSMBTS<br />
| image_name = <br />
| latin_name = <br />
| motto = <br />
| established = {{start date and age|1926}}<br />
| type = Propaedeutic institute<br />
| president = Bishop [[B. Suneel Bhanu]]<br />
| principal = Rev. B. Subhashini<br />
| students = <br />
| city = [[Rajahmundry]]<br />
| state = [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| coor = {{coord|17|1|45|N|81|46|42|E|type:edu}}<br />
| address = Luthergiri, [[Rajahmundry]], [[East Godavari District]], Andhra Pradesh 533 105, [[India]]<br />
| campus = Rural<br />
| affiliations = [[Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church]]<br />
| website = <br />
| footnotes = Data as of November 2008<br />
}}<br />
'''Charlotte Swenson Memorial Bible Training School''' (CSMBTS) was started on 8 July 1926<ref name=Subbamma>B. V. Subbamma (Ed.), History of Charlotte Swenson Memorial Bible Training School, Rajahmundry, 1961.</ref> in [[Rajahmundry]], a town in Andhra Pradesh, India.<br />
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==Background==<br />
Blenda Charlotte Swenson<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdxLAAAAMAAJ&q=blenda+charlotte+swenson&dq=blenda+charlotte+swenson|author=Oscar Nils Olson|title=The Augustana Lutheran Church in America|year=1950}}</ref> a graduate of [[Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas)]] was deputed by the Lutheran Mission Board to go out to India as a Zenana Sister. During her work in India at Rajahmundry, she envisioned the establishment of a Bible Training School for Christian women where they would be prepared as teachers of the Bible in Hindu homes.<ref name=Subbamma/><br />
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==Administration==<br />
The present principal of this school is Rev. B. Subhashini.<br />
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* 1926–1928 [[Nun|Sr.]] Christina Erickson, ELCA<br />
* 1928–1951 Sr. Hildegarde Swanson, ELCA ''(interrupted)''<br />
* 1930–1931 Sr. Hilda Kaercher, ELCA<br />
* 1937–1939 Sr. Jessie Cronk, ELCA<br />
* 1951–1955 Sr. Maida Meissner, ELCA<br />
* 1955–1959 Sr. Ethel Dentzer, ELCA<br />
* 1959–1985 Sr. [[B. V. Subbamma]], AELC<br />
* 1985– Sr. Subhashini, AELC<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Christian seminaries and theological colleges in India]]<br />
[[Category:Schools in East Godavari district]]<br />
[[Category:Education in Rajahmundry]]<br />
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1926]]<br />
[[Category:1926 establishments in India]]</div>Animesh