Alphacrucis

Alphacrucis College is a Christian tertiary college and is the official ministry training college of Australian Christian Churches, the Assemblies of God in Australia. The College has several campuses, with the main campus in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. The College has programmes running in various colleges and churches around Australia. Since the College was founded in 1948, over 3,000 students have been trained and the graduates are engaged in ministry all around the world.AC offers several vocational education and training courses in ministry and business, accredited by the Australian Skills Quality Authority. It is also a non-self-accrediting higher education institution, authorised to provide a limited range of degrees up to masters level, including a Korean language programme. The college ethos is based on a Pentecostal/Charismatic orientation. In 2009, the college had an Equivalent Full Time Student Load of over 500.HistoryAC began as "Commonwealth Bible College" in 1948 in Melbourne, after an abortive attempt by Henry Wiggins to set up the college in the 1930s. In 1949 the college moved to Brisbane, first to New Farm, and in 1961 to a purpose-built campus on the Brisbane River which was destroyed in the 1974 Brisbane flood.