Tennessee+Temple+University

Tennessee Temple was founded in 1946 under the leadership and vision of Dr. [|Lee Roberson]. As the pastor of a prominent [|Southern Baptist] church, [|Highland Park Baptist Church] in Chattanooga, Roberson saw the need to train people for ministry through higher education. Believing that God was leading him to act upon this need, he began an evening Bible institute which would eventually blossom into a [|Bible college] and a [|liberal arts college]. Later, a seminary would be added. The close relationship that the school maintained with Highland Park Baptist Church, one of the early [|megachurches] of the modern era, created many ministry training opportunities for the students of Tennessee Temple. This model would be the inspiration for the Rev. [|Jerry Falwell] to begin what would become [|Liberty University]. Tennessee Temple's peak enrollment was more than 4,000. As of September 2013, there were "just over" 400 students enrolled.[|[1]] In September 2013, university leaders reported that the institution was considering a campus relocation, from [|Highland Park] to a larger site on Woodland Park Baptist Church property located on Standifer Gap Road.[|[1]][|[2]] In February 2014, the university announced that it would sell most of its Highland Park campus buildings to Redemption to the Nations, the parent organization of Redemption Point Church, and move to a new site by June 2015.[|[3]] In March 2015, it was announced that, as of April 30, 2015, Tennessee Temple University would dissolve and merge with [|Piedmont International University], a private Christian college in [|Winston-Salem], N.C.[|[4]] Dr. Steve Echols was the last President of Tennessee Temple University.[|[5]] || [|https://www.google.com/search?q=Tennessee+Temple+University+picture&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt15jT4OXUAhUK2oMKHe2XC40Q_AUICCgD&biw=1366&bih=650#imgrc=zH4zXKlQOkdtNM:&spf=1498832101053]
 * || **Tennessee Temple University** was a four-year private [|Christian] [|university], with its focus on [|liberal arts] education, located in [|Chattanooga, Tennessee], [|United States]. Operating there, also, was [|Temple Baptist Seminary], the university's graduate school of [|Christian] theology.
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