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Bible Training Institute

Bible Training Institute

The New Zealand Bible Training Institute, shown here at its original site on Auckland's Queen Street, was founded in 1922 and trained hundreds of young men and women as overseas missionaries. In 1961 it moved to a new site in Henderson, West Auckland. In 2008 it was renamed Laidlaw College in honour of Robert Laidlaw, the founder of the Farmers' Trading Company, who chaired the board of the Bible Training Institute for 20 years.

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Peter J. Lineham, Interdenominational Christianity – Evangelical Christianity, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29772/bible-training-institute (accessed 14 June 2026).

Story by Peter J. Lineham, published 5 April 2011.

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Grant Harris
03 June 2025
I am Lyn McNickles nephew ... send me a note.
John Roberts
12 August 2022
Hi, I've just come across this post and wondered if you ever made contact with Lyn McNickle? Regards.
Rae Leer
15 August 2013
I am trying to connect with a Lynn McNickle (nee Harris) who attended BTI after completion of Nursing training in Wellington. She married Ian McNickle (also a BTI student) and they were missionaries with O.M.F. If you have any info on her I would be thrilled. We were very close friends during nursing school and I have lost contact with her. I married an American and moved to the U.S.A. in 1965. I appreciate any help you might be able to give me. Rae E. Leer