Founding President Raynard Wilson Goes Home to Be With
The Lord
Dr Love Retires After A Long Dedicated Service to Students
CCU No Longer Accepting New Students
Dateline: July
Dr. Wilson dies at Age 84
It is with sadness in our hearts that we announce that Dr. Raynard Wilson, Founding President of CCU and the man who established the unique curriculum for the University has passed away. Dr. Wilson was 84.
Dr. Wilson along with Missionary Professor’s from William Carey University in Pasadena, California in the middle 1990’s designed a curriculum to meet the needs of pastors who accepted a calling to ministry later in their lives after they were married and had children and other obligations that made it impossible for them to receive an education in the standard way. So, Dr. Wilson designed a system by which instead of the students coming to a brick and mortar university, the university would go to the students. He did this by sending teachers and tutors to the students. It was innovative and very good in its results. Because of the vision of Dr. Wilson and Dr. Love, thousands of pastors were given a chance to receive a religious degree from a religious university. Because of his age, Dr. Wilson in his later years was unable to travel to the different school extensions. He remained active however in maintaining all the records of the school and helping to design new programs. Dr. Wilson was a special man with a special vision and he will be missed.
Dr. Love Retires From CCU
It is also with sadness that the Board of Directors of CCU have accepted the retirement letter from Dr. Charles Love. His Retirement is effective July 31, 2007. Dr. Love has served CCU for 12 years and was instrumental in the development of students to become pastors. He traveled the world in training and mentoring disadvantage and financially poor students. Many times, Dr. Love personally gave of his own resources so that pastors could be trained. Love never turned away a student because they couldn’t afford an education. His burden for pastors was remarkable said board member Dean Townson.
Love said that in the beginning CCU received a lot of criticism, especially from traditional brick and mortar schools because they were afraid that CCU would take money away from them. When they began to understand that the students CCU was educating would not be able to attend their universities anyway, they started to respect what we were doing. Love said that what is interesting is that now almost all of the schools in America have adopted our way of education as an alternative for those students that cannot travel to the brick and mortar schools. After a while, we also developed and online version of our school. Today almost all of the schools also have online capabilities. It seems that the Lord always blessed us with vision and a new way of doing things, only to be copied be almost everyone else! That was a good thing!
Love explained that CCU was never an accredited school. It was strictly a religious school that met one need, training pastors in their walk with their Lord Jesus Christ.. While we were not accredited, the reputation of the school as being a tremendously theologically sound school carried and added weight to our degrees. If a school is not accredited, it must have a tremendous reputation in order to be viable. CCU has always had the best of reputation in the religious community. Thousands have been won to our Lord Jesus Christ by students who have graduated from CCU. Hundreds of thousands in the body of Christ have been discipled by pastors who received their training from CCU. CCU was sanctioned by the state of California as a religious exempt school, and all of the degrees we offered had to run through the BBPVE in order for us to offer them. Love said, what really makes me proud is that we never had even one disgruntled student. If you look on line for people who had complaints against CCU you will find none. That is truly remarkable. Yet you will find complaint after complaint about other universities. Love said, to show you how sound our training was, the brother who now has the second largest church in the world, has a doctor degree from CCU!!
Love cited the fact that he has a newspaper business that takes up a lot of his time and the fact that he has accepted the role as pastor in his home town of Helendale, California as his reason for retirement. I am an old man said Love. I can’t do all of the things that I want to. Also we have spawned hundreds of schools that now teach the way we do and many of those have been started by our students. So it is no longer necessary for us to be active in pastor education. We will leave that up to the new generation.
While CCU will no longer technically be an active school, all of the records from Dr. Wilson are being transferred to Dr. Love. Those students needing transcripts and recommendations may get those from CCU by sending a request to CCU, PO Box 1079, Helendale, CA 92342.
Dr. Love would like to thank the thousands of students that have participated in the CCU training Program and wishes all of them tremendous success in the Lords work of winning people to Christ and then making Disciples of them as Christ commanded us to do.
CCU No Longer Accepting Students
The Board of Directors of California Christian University announced that effective August 1, 2007, CCU will no longer accept new students for education. Board member Dean Townson cited the devasting loss of leadership, in Dr. Wilson and Dr. Love as the main reason for suspending the training of new students. Townson said that CCU had its time. CCU has actually spawned hundreds of schools that use our curriculum and were basically trained to do the work by us, as many of those schools were started by former CCU students. He says that CCU feels comfortable to know that the Lord will continue to use these new schools imitating the project started as a labor of Christ’s love by Dr. Wilson and Dr. Love so long ago. Townson expressed gratitude to Dr. Wilson, Dr. Love and Vice President Jorge Fuentes for all of the generous and faithful work that they did on behalf of the pastors who attended CCU. He said we thank the Lord for faithful men.
Students needing transcripts will continue to be able to get them by requesting them from CCU, PO Box 1079, Helendale, California 92342.