Aenon's Story

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WELCOME TO AENON BIBLE COLLEGE ONLINE.  Aenon Online is the third division created within Aenon Bible College behind the On-Campus & Distance Learning departments. Aenon Online was created as another vehicle to train students and spread the gospel throughout the world; but this department can reach the world in seconds using the latest technology. Aenon's story is one of vision, sacrifice, determination, and perseverance. Aenon Bible School was birthed during a time when many Pentecostals did not advocate post-secondary education especially for Spirit-filled ministers. The notion that one need only 'open one's mouth and God would fill it' prevailed in many of our circles. Fortunately, many ministers during that era were blessed to sit under outstanding, God inspired, anointed teachers, but not all. It was the abundance of untrained, expositors of unsound doctrine that prompted the urgent call for systematic training. Elders Karl F. Smith and Labaugh H. Stansbury, former AME ministers, envisioned a training center for ministers of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Their proposal for what would become Aenon Bible College was approved by the 1940 general assembly convening in Philadelphia, PA. Six months later on January 16, 1941 Aenon Bible School was officially dedicated at the Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith...