Ewart College/the Presbyterian Missionary and Deaconess Training Home was a training school for deaconesses, and was founded in 1897. The purpose of the school shifted over the years, but overall its main purpose was to train women for every area of Church work, including as: foreign missionaries, deaconesses, pastor’s assistants, home missionaries, directors of religious education, Bible teachers, and voluntary workers in home Churches. The school ran successfully for 94 years, and merged with Knox College in 1991.