Postal Bible Schools started in Southern Ireland over 40 years ago and were based on a system that was then used in New Zealand. The purpose, originally, was to provide a means whereby children, and adults, would be able to study the Bible even though they were unable to attend an evangelical place of worship.

The system was originally known as "Postal Sunday School". The students doing a lesson per week and then returning to the centre for marking.

There are now about 14 independent centres in the UK and Ireland all using the lessons published by Mr. Bert Gray, Bible Educational Service Trust, (BES) in Southern Ireland.

These lessons are being translated into many other languages for use in Eastern Europe and the Far East.

A new PBS centre was set-up in Canada during 1999.

Each centre is totally independent and is run by volunteers. Lessons are purchased from BES on a monthly basis and distributed to students each month.

Kingfisher PBS was set-up in about 1995 by the late Mr. David Willcox, the Counties Evangelist for Somerset. The lessons were used in conjunction with his children’s campaigns tent missions, beach missions and camp work etc.

Following the home-call of Mr. David Willcox camp and other Bible teaching activities were taken over by the Kingfisher Christian Camp Trust. KPBS now forms a totally independent division of that Trust.

Most of the new students that start with KPBS do so on the basis of a recommendation from existing students!