For God and Truth: An Update

Memorial Collection is now housed at Vanguard, and Taylor students are served with daily delivery service and online ordering access.

At the new E P Wahl Centre, the challenge during 2008-2010 was to be responsive to the needs expressed by church leaders. The Wahl Centre was to begin offering training and educational opportunities that served church volunteers and staff, but it would have to do so without creating new financial pressures. Essentially, the Wahl Centre would seek to become a place of lifelong learning, focusing on non-credit training events ranging from seminars and courses to concerts and service learning opportunities.

In the midst of many other changes and challenges, a small administrative team led by Dr. Williams began to develop the educational programs, guidelines and relationships that would be true to Taylor's mission. Small events, usually in partnership with local churches or other organizations, began to be offered and, through an ongoing process of evaluation, were either improved and repeated or discontinued. Events operated on a costrecovery basis, allowing the new ministry to emerge without adding significant new financial burdens. Many attendees to Wahl Centre events were being exposed to Taylor for the first time, resulting in new inquiries and registrations in courses at the seminary, an added benefit.

CAMPUS CHANGES The sale of a significant portion of the Taylor campus was necessitated by the serious financial situation at the school. The main administration building and the Student Union Building were showing their age, and longoverdue repairs and upgrades were beginning to create costlier problems.

Selling part of the campus would monetize the institution's greatest asset, unlocking an important financial resource, but would also set aside the issue of costly repairs and upgrades.

The red-hot Alberta economy, which had added so much strain to the budget, was now in Taylor's favor and the value of the 26-acre campus was soaring. Purchased in the 1960's by the Alumni Association for $35,000, the land value was now in the millions of dollars.

Still, there were strong emotional ties to the Taylor campus, and the Board of Trustees was determined to consider all options very carefully. Not only would any proposed sale need to be at the right price and to the right -7-