Canadian Chinese churches established ACCTE under the influence of the Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (CCCOWE) in 2004. ACCTE then founded CCST as one of its departments to develop CCST Toronto (partnership with Tyndale) in 2006, CCST Vancouver in 2015, and then CCST Calgary in 2019.

CCST is accredited by Asia Theological Association (ATA) and supports ACCTE’s member schools to obtain accreditation of ATA. With the restructuring of ACCTE & CCST, CCST Calgary was approved by Asia Theological Association (ATA) as an Associate Member in 2023.