Crowell established the school on business principles of productivity and performance. Gray, the president of the school, invited Henry Parsons Crowell to financially restructure the institute. After Moody died, however, the institute struggled financially. Take men that have the gifts and train them for the work of reaching the people." As a result of this meeting, held at Farwell Hall, the group founded the Chicago Evangelization Society for the "education and training of Christian workers, including teachers, ministers, missionaries, and musicians who may completely and effectively proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ." The society was renamed "Moody Bible Institute" after Moody died in 1899.īefore 1900, Moody played a significant role in fund-raising to support MBI. On January 22, 1886, Moody addressed church members: "I tell you what, and what I have on my heart, I believe we have got to have gap-men: men to stand between the laity and the ministers men who are trained to do city mission work. Participants in the May Institute encouraged Moody to found a school to train young people for evangelism to carry on the Christian revival tradition. Thank you for your continued prayers and patience during this process.The historic Moody Bible Institute arch as viewed from the central plaza.Įmma Dryer organized the "May Institute", a weekly meeting for prayer and fellowship, with Moody's permission in 1883. As our rigorous internal review concludes later this spring, we look forward to sharing the recommendations and details of our action plan and comprehensive path forward. That path forward will focus on strengthening Moody’s Title IX and related processes, protocols, and approach.
An understanding of students’ experiences with Moody’s Title IX process and related Student Life conduct process enables us to develop a clear path forward toward enhancing the safety and wellbeing of all students. We also want to express our appreciation to those who took time to share their experiences with Grand River Solutions. We are grateful to Grand River Solutions for the thoroughness of their report and their flexibility in extending the investigation period to allow additional persons to be interviewed.
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Step 4: Presentation of the report recommendations and proposed action plan to the full Board of Trustees at the May 13-14 Board meetings.Step 3: Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees reviews the report recommendations.Step 2: Senior Operating Team (Moody vice presidents) reviews the report recommendations.Step 1: Executive Team reviews the report and develops an initial action plan for implementing the recommendations.Our leadership is beginning an in-depth review process in preparation for a comprehensive discussion with our Board of Trustees.Īs promised, we will publicly share Grand River Solutions’ recommendations and our action plan on our website once we complete the process outlined below: To inform that roadmap, we are committed to following a rigorous internal process to fully and thoughtfully review the report and develop plans for implementing Grand River Solutions’ recommendations.
We recognize the community is looking forward to hearing more about the findings and recommendations coming out of the investigation, and we are committed to sharing our path forward. As part of our commitment to transparent communications with our community, we wanted to let you know that Grand River Solutions completed their Title IX review and submitted their comprehensive report to Moody Bible Institute’s Executive Leadership Team.