History
Founded in 1947 as the Western School of Evangelical Religion, the original campus was on the grounds of the Evangelical Church conference in Jennings Lodge, Oregon. When the seminary began, it fulfilled the dream of its first president, Paul Petticord, and other regional Christian leaders, who recognized the need for a Wesleyan seminary in the Pacific Northwest.
In 1951 the school became Western Evangelical Seminary (WES) and in 1993 moved to a new more central and accessible campus near Interstate 5 and highways 99W and 217. In 1996, WES merged with George Fox College to form George Fox University, and changed its name on January 1, 2000, to George Fox Evangelical Seminary.
The first students came from the founding denominations: the Evangelical Church of North America, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, the Free Methodists, the Nazarenes, and the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana). Today, more than 35 denominations are represented in the student body.
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