Pinecrest Bible Training Center was founded in 1968 as a place where God can move freely and have a people to do His will.

Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network donated the Salisbury Center campus and buildings to Pinecrest Bible Training Center, and our present ministry began with a Labor Day conference in 1968. Since then, Pinecrest has welcomed students from across the United States and around the world to come and be transformed by a vital relationship with God.

Dr. Ronald Taylor faithfully served as President at Pinecrest with his wife, Helen, from 1996 until his death in 2001. Dr. Richard Forde, Pinecrest's Vice-President and longtime faculty member, then assumed the position. On July 22, 2006, Jack Picataggi, former Pinecrest teacher and Academic Dean, was installed as Pinecrest’s current President. His wife, Joanne, serves as Pinecrest’s Dean.

God placed a burning desire in Jack’s heart to co-labor with the Holy Spirit in raising up a prophetic people for the last days. As a student at Pinecrest in the 1970’s, God spoke to Jack and Joanne separately that they would pioneer a school of the Spirit. Years later, Samuel Howells, son of intercessor Rees Howells of the Bible College of Wales, prophesied that they would become leaders of a school for end-time anointed ones.

Jack and Joanne have a desire to encourage students in their individual callings and to bring Pinecrest into everything God has purposed for the school.