The committee relocated the school to North Scituate, Rhode Island,[3] a village roughly 10 miles (16 km) west of Providence.

[4] When it learned that Pettit had held the Saratoga property in his own name, the APCA had to raise additional funds to purchase a new campus.

It had numerous interim principals and short-term leadership for years, making it difficult to accomplish fundraising or to settle on educational goals for the school.

Fred A. Hillery, the pastor of the People's Pentecostal Church in South Providence, placed an option on the disused facilities of the former Lapham Institute, which had been vacant since 1876.

[6][7] The facilities comprised a large three-story Greek Revival central building designed by New England architect Russell Warren in 1839.

[8] Authorized by the Educational Committee, Hillery purchased the Lanham Institute property for $4,500, and arranged a mortgage loan for $3,000.

[11] Members of the Educational Committee sold sufficient stock to finance the purchase and renovations.

[6] Albrecht, Ernest Winslow Perry (1876-1902), a faculty members, and some students who had relocated to Rhode Island worked to renovate the facilities to begin classes.

[12] Most students and faculty refused to move from Saratoga Springs, so Albrecht dropped the liberal arts program.

[18] Another faculty member was Jesse B. Mowry, who was supporting himself by working as the Superintendent of Schools in Glocester, Rhode Island, and the Commissioner for Forestry for the state.

He established the short-lived Hudson River Holiness Institute, an interdenominational co-educational college preparatory school, in the Prospect Park Hotel at Catskill Point.

[25] To help needy students pay their way, in 1908 Angell decided to start a separate industrial education program at PCI under the name of the Pentecostal Trade Schools.

[26] By 1910 PCI had purchased machinery for making brooms, sewing and printing, in order to enable students to earn their way in a co-operative work program.

Martha "Mattie" Eva Curry (1867-1948), a nationally known evangelist for the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, served as interim principal of PCI for the 1913-1914 school year.

Bearse laid the foundations for the eventual addition of a four-year liberal arts program at PCI, by recruiting well-qualified faculty members.

(1855- ) an ordained Methodist clergyman,[37] and graduate of Boston University, served as interim principal for the 1916-1917 academic year.

[38][39] Winchester resigned in 1916, and moved to Berkeley, California to continue her studies at the Pacific School of Religion.

John Edgar Littleton Moore (1883-1935) was appointed as principal of PCI, with the immediate challenge of ameliorating the college's debt.

While principal at PCI, Moore also completed graduate work for a master's degree at Boston University.

[43] In 1918 the Board of Trustees voted to relocate the college to its present location in Wollaston, Massachusetts.

In 1919 the Board of Trustees voted to elect Fred J. Shields (1880-1953) a graduate of Pasadena University, as president.