Alberta Bible College is a Canadian Bible college offering Christian Higher education to young adults and older adults in Alberta. Non-Denominational, ABC is born of roots in Christian Churches and Churches of Christ ABC offers two different ways to take courses. The traditional college format with two semesters is available as people are more accustomed to. The second is Professional Adult Christian Education (PACE), a one-night-per-week non-traditional accelerated degree completion and diploma program designed for adult learners. Programs PACE 3-year Diploma/Bachelors of Christian Ministry, Counselling 3-year Diploma/Bachelors of Christian Ministry, Biblical Studies 3-year Diploma/Bachelors of Christian Ministry, Leadership 3-year Diploma/Bachelors of Christian Ministry, Non-Profit Leadership College 1-year The Rock - Certificate in Christian Foundations 2-year Diploma - Diploma of Christian Ministry, Christian Studies 2-year Degree - Bachelor of Christian Studies: General Studies Major (Degree Completion) 4-year Degree - Bachelor Christian Studies, Christian Ministries Major 4-year Degree - Bachelor of Sacred Literature 4-year Degree - Bachelor of Theology History Founders Helen McGilvary's motion at a July, 1932, congregational meeting of Central Church of Christ, Lethbridge, Alberta, created Alberta Bible College (ABC). Charles Henry ("C. H.") Phillips convened classes October 3, 1932 with Roscoe E. Hollister and, later that school year, eight other students in an unfinished church basement in a classroom sectioned off by a curtain. From the outset, ABC's founding was a collaborative effort of several Alberta congregations. But E. E. Breakenridge, a Calgary businessman and an elder at Tuxedo Park Church of Christ, Calgary, was full partner in this effort with C. H. Phillips. Phillips came from an Anglo-Caribbean plantation family, born in London, England, according to one account, who immigrated to Saskatchewan as a 24-year-old. As that young man, he came to Canada "utterly disgruntled" with the brand of Christianity that perpetuated unbearable inequalities between the clergy and the poor. "C. H." was exposed to the Restoration Movement by the pioneer Disciples of Christ preacher R. J. Westaway, and he went to study at Eugene Bible University (now, Northwest Christian College) in Oregon. From his studies, C. H. brought a vision of church growth by way of educating men and women for the leadership ministry of the church. In a special 1932 edition of The Alberta Christian, a newsletter of the Alberta Christian Missionary Society, Phillips noted that "There is no question as to the need of such a college in this Northwestern (sic) division of our Dominion.