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The vision of African Bible College is to offer quality, university-level education with a Christian emphasis to the people of East and Central Africa.

The chief aim of African Bible College is to train Godly men and women for Christian leadership and service. The curriculum is designed to prepare the college’s graduates for Christian vocation. The degree is designed to be either terminal or preparatory for further education. Students are being trained for Christian leadership; consequently, the college desires students who are committed to God’s guidance and dedicated to the Lord’s service.

African Bible College is distinctively a Bible college, and its courses are
designed to hold to the highest academic standards. Its four-year program is of university standard, and the degree offered is parallel to the Bachelor of Arts degree awarded by other international universities and liberal arts colleges.

African Bible College views man’s character as a combination of spiritual and physical elements; and for man to function at his best, both elements must be nurtured. To concentrate on the one at the expense of the other is to fail to prepare the whole man and woman for holistic service. Consequently, African Bible College’s four-year program includes both Theological Courses as well as Core Curriculum Courses.

The vision for Christian colleges in Africa began in the hearts of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Chinchen. After spending seven years training pastors in the interior of Liberia, the Chinchens realized the great need for a Bible College that would meet the educational and spiritual needs of the multitude of high school graduates emerging from an awakened Africa. In 1976, the vision became a reality when the Chinchens established Liberia's first four-year Bible College. The college was designed to hold the highest international university standards and meet the qualifications to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Studies.

As the graduates in West Africa proved the value of quality Christian education--dedicated Christian leaders who coul dtruly have a transforming impact on the continent--it became imperative that this same ministry be made available to other parts of Africa. Thus, in 1988, African Bible Colleges established a second institution 4,000 miles away in the East African country of Malawi. Seventeen years later, in 2005, the third African Bible College was opened in the equatorial country of Uganda.

Today African Bible Colleges has nearly 800 graduates serving in a wide spectrum of Christian ministries--from program production at TransWorld Radio, orphan care with Children of the Nations, leadership positions at Campus Crusade (Life Ministries), and HIV ministries with World Relief, to planting churches in the former communist stronghold of Mozambique--ABC graduates are proving to be a key component in the evangelization and transformation of Africa.