Asbury College is the only Methodist and Protestant college in the Province of Pangasinan. Since its establishment in 1947, by an American Methodist missionary, Asbury continue to be a place where young people, specially the poor, could get the best quality and affordable education in a Christian environment. All through the years, the school has helped hundreds of students receive the education they deserve through financial aids or scholarship programs, which were supported by The Advance. Since majority of the population of the town of Anda (where Asbury is located) lives in poverty, most families are unable to send their children to school. Moreover, per recent report of the local Division of Social Welfare Department of Anda (DSWD), the number of single parent families in Anda has grown at an alarming rate, and that incest and rape has also been on the rise. There is a large population of students at Asbury who come from these families.