Foundress of PCC has passed away

Pioneer televangelist Rebekah "Beka" Horton, who built a Christian schooling empire in Florida, died Saturday at the age of 90:

WEAR-TV3 Pensacola

"In the 1950s, local children enjoyed her TV program 'Aunt Beka’s Bible Stories', which aired for 20 years and was one of the first television programs broadcast on WEAR Channel 3."

Abeka | In Memoriam

"She met and married Arlin Horton before their senior year at a Christian college in South Carolina. They taught high school at a Presbyterian boarding school in Kentucky for one year, then in 1952, they came to Pensacola. In 1954, she and her husband started a small Christian school...and later Pensacola Christian College."

"She taught high school Bible at Pensacola Christian for 22 years. In 1972, Pensacola Christian began publishing Christian textbooks for K4 through high school called A Beka Book"

When A Beka Book was started, it was named after her....For 20 years beginning in 1955, she had a weekly children’s TV program, “Aunt Beka’s Bible Stories”



Her television show consisted of dramatic monologues given in front of 'flannelgraphs'. Remember those?

Classic clip from an episode of 'Aunt Beka's Bible Stories'