FIELD DEPARTMENT
The staff of the Field Department performs the inconspicuous but important task of familiarizing church organizations, communities, and countless homes of Christian folk in general with the activities of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Along with their task of bringing the financi al needs of the Institute to the Christian public, it is their desire to sow the seed and to enlist prayer support. Contacts by these workers have proved to be a means of recruiting new students for Biola as well as providing for those who are already here. The members of the Field Department are Eugene P oo l, Director, T. E. Elgin, Miss Christina Braskamp, Paul Pietsch, and Jack Findley, who are wo rking in the Southern California area; John W. Thomas, of Santa Cruz, California, in the northern section of the state; George W. Meyer, in the San Francisco Bay area; and Rev. George W. Wheatley, with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, who represents the work in Oregon and Washington.
EVENING SCHOOL
For those who are prevented from attending regular day classes, an Evening School is held three evenings each week. A cycle of classes is planned to benefit the lay worker in church and Sunday School with a knowledge of Bible subjects and studies in the Christian Education field. In a period of four years it is possible to take, through Evening School classes, sufficient courses to earn an Evening School diploma and also to satisfy the requirements for the certificate of the Evangelical Teacher Training Association. The Departmental Work Shops, introduced through the Sunday School Convention, have become so popular that they are being continued in connection with the Institute's Evening School program.
SUMMER SCHOOL
Each year, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles conducts a six weeks' Summer School in which members of the regular faculty serve as instructors. Regular day-school credit, up to six semester hours, is granted upon satisfactory completion of subjects . The schedule is designed to appeal to many types of individuals who for various reasons desire to acquaint themselves more thoroughly with God's Word. Those to whom the Summer School especially appeals include the following: pastors who desire to take refresher courses, Christian education workers, choir directors, Sunday School teachers, secular school teachers, high school students, and many others who wish to spend a purposeful and profitable vacation time of spiritual enrichment. 18
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