History

The opening of an Urban Bible Training Center (UBTC) in 1995 was a great testimony to the vision of the Assemblies of God leadership at the national level and in the Milwaukee community. UBTC paved the way for the Urban Ministry Center in the heart of the city. The Urban Ministry Center housed the UBTC, provided evangelistic and compassionate outreach in the neighborhood, and provided affordable office space to other central city ministries. This, in turn, became the catalyst for the development of the not-for-profit urban ministry center now known as City on a Hill.

On May 16, 2002 the charter for City College Milwaukee was approved as a ministry of City on a Hill and as a District-based Bible school in the Wisconsin-Northern Michigan District. Fall of 2002 was the first semester for City College.

In 2003, the Executive Presbytery of the General Council of the Assemblies of God gave its official recognition of City College Milwaukee as a school for training ministers, and in 2005, the Executive Presbytery extended this recognition to 2009.  In 2004, City College Milwaukee became a learning center for the Carlson Institute, the distance learning program for North Central University.  This provided students with the option of obtaining accredited courses which would be more widely transferable to four-year institutions.  In 2006, City College Milwaukee became a charter member of the Association of Assemblies of God District Schools of Ministry.  The Carlson Institute closed in 2008, and City College Milwaukee became a study group center for Global University in order to continue offering its students the option of accredited courses.

 

In April of 2009, City College Milwaukee changed its name to Urban Bible College to better reflect the focus of the school which is to train men and women in the proclamation of the Word of God and in the midst of their ministry to always remember the poor.