The Center for Education grew out of a simple idea. That idea was to provide a place and opportunity for concerned educators and parents to come together and discuss educational problems, needs, and successes throughout the Unification movement. This was the beginning of the North American Educators Conference.

The first conference was small but effective, with participants talking about their experience for months afterward. It was after the second conference the next year that the idea for a Center for Education was born. The Steering Committee was encouraged by the participants' evaluations and comments following the conference. All agreed that something more than a yearly conference was needed if children and teens were to develop into mature young adults and adults who had the tools to form healthy, happy and loving families. Certainly it would require more than a conference to also support the further enrichment of healthy families or address serious marital and family-based problems of struggling families. Add to that the need for on-going education of pastoral and community-based leaders and it became clear that an educational center of some type was needed. Thus was born the Center for Education at UTS.

Over the next year, the Center for Education gradually took shape. By the third annual Educators Conference, a clear mission and vision statement had been formulated together with objectives and a beginning activities list. The Center for Education is being hosted by the Unification Theological Seminary. Why UTS? Because UTS is committed to education, whether it is the education of pastors, Sunday School teachers, religious educators, or education of men and women of God in general. Through its resources, UTS can support the on-going life and development of the Center for Education through diverse coursework, library and archival materials, specialized research conducted by faculty and students, and educational leadership for both the movement as well as the Center for Education itself.