A Continuing Vision for Christian Higher Education

We invite the executive leadership, staff, students and others coming onto the campus to consider the two bronze plaques found attached to the brick pilasters at the main entrance gate on Elm Ave. They are a clear historical testament to this college’s vision and mission. These inscriptions provide both the foundational intent and a generational vision for the Institution to follow. In the early days of ENC, plaques like these were a wonderful gift of remembrance, testimony, and rededication given by the Class of 1938. The lamp with a flame placed in the forefront of the plaque speaks to the richness of our Pentecostal Holiness tradition. The flame supplied by the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit provides light. This illumination shines forth a vision of a sanctified pathway for all of life. The lamp resting on the Bible, the Eternal Truth of God’s Word, offers knowledge, and to knowledge, understanding. Both the lamp and the Eternal Word are at the forefront of what appears to be the globe. This captures the missional aspect of our college: an Institution set apart to provide life to a dying world; life which is found in the truth of Holy Scripture, revealed and illuminated by the Spirit of Holiness. These symbols of the biblical truth declare that Jesus is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” We believe that only on this basis can ENC succeed in its vision to provide “transformational education”.