Mid-Atlantic Christian University or MACU (formerly Roanoke Bible College) is a private Christian college located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States. It is supported by Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, which is part of the Restoration Movement. MACU is a four-year, co-educational institution and is authorized to award Bachelor's and Associate's degrees. Mid-Atlantic Christian University was founded as Roanoke Bible College in 1948 by George W. BonDurant and his wife, Sarah, to train preachers for churches in eastern North Carolina and the Tidewater region of Virginia. The BonDurants had previously founded Atlanta Christian College in 1937 and George BonDurant served as its first President until 1947, when he left over a dispute with the trustees. George BonDurant then found employment as an evangelist of the Roanoke District Churches of Christ in eastern North Carolina in 1947. The BonDurants founded MACU due to the extreme lack of preachers in the area at the time. Classes began in 1948 with 12 full-time students. The first group of transfer students graduated in 1950 and the first class to complete all four years at MACU graduated in 1952.