Vision of WCBI

The William Carey Bible Institute is a Reformed, Evangelistic, Biblical and practical leadership training programme. WCBI holds to the Bible as the inspired, infallible and inerrant Word of God. Scripture alone is our ultimate authority.
There is a tremendous need and hunger for literature and leadership training in Africa, but one of our ongoing problems is that most of those who leave rural areas for urban training institutions tend to stay in the urban centres and be lost to the rural communities who sent them for further training.
There is a tremendous need and hunger for literature and leadership training in Africa, but one of our ongoing problems is that most of those who leave rural areas for urban training institutions tend to stay in the urban centres and be lost to the rural communities who sent them for further training.

Similarly, most of those who go to First World nations for further training tend not to return to their Third World countries of origin. In this way the church is haemorrhaging in Africa. Some of our most promising leadership candidates are failing to return to their communities. The rapid urbanisation and mass movement to First World countries is devastating to local congregations. Most of the pastors of the rural areas where we work have no tertiary education at all.
What Frontline Fellowship has been attempting to do over the last three decades has been to take short term leadership training programmes to the remote rural areas. We have been conducting Biblical Worldview Seminars, Great Commission Courses, Reformation and Revival Seminars, Muslim Evangelism Workshops, Teacher Training Courses, etc. and seeking to equip pastors with our Libraries for Pastors programme. We have also helped establish Bible Colleges in Zambia and Sudan.
What Frontline Fellowship has been attempting to do over the last three decades has been to take short term leadership training programmes to the remote rural areas. We have been conducting Biblical Worldview Seminars, Great Commission Courses, Reformation and Revival Seminars, Muslim Evangelism Workshops, Teacher Training Courses, etc. and seeking to equip pastors with our Libraries for Pastors programme. We have also helped establish Bible Colleges in Zambia and Sudan.

Now we are providing this thoroughly Reformed distance learning programme which provides pastors, teachers and evangelists excellent textbooks, lecture manuals, audio CDs, MP3s and a programme requiring Book Reports and Assignments.
That is why the college is named after William Carey, the father of modern missions, who, although he was deprived of secondary schooling, was so well read, dedicated and disciplined that through reading he became one of the finest linguists, Bible translators and social Reformers in history.
The William Carey Bible Institute aims to provide a uniquely practical missionary training programme that is character changing, nation building and culture transforming.
That is why the college is named after William Carey, the father of modern missions, who, although he was deprived of secondary schooling, was so well read, dedicated and disciplined that through reading he became one of the finest linguists, Bible translators and social Reformers in history.
The William Carey Bible Institute aims to provide a uniquely practical missionary training programme that is character changing, nation building and culture transforming.
In addition to the correspondence course, WCBI donates high quality Christian books to Bible colleges and Christian schools as far afield as Nigeria and South Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Pastors, chaplains and teachers who complete any of our leadership training programmes such as the Reformation Seminars, Great Commission Courses, Muslim Evangelism Workshops or Biblical Worldview Seminars receive study credits and are also given book donations from the William Carey Bible Institute.
“So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
Pastors, chaplains and teachers who complete any of our leadership training programmes such as the Reformation Seminars, Great Commission Courses, Muslim Evangelism Workshops or Biblical Worldview Seminars receive study credits and are also given book donations from the William Carey Bible Institute.
“So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
Introduction to the William Carey Bible Institute

INTRODUCING WCBI
The William Carey Bible Institute is a Reformed, Evangelistic, Biblical and practical leadership training programme. Inspired by the steadfast example of the “Father of Modern Missions”, Dr. William Carey, this Institute is dedicated to changing lives and transforming cultures.
THE ROOTS OF EDUCATION
The pursuit of the knowledge of God in a systematic, philosophical and in-depth way led to the phenomenon of universities all around the world. It was the Christian Faith that gave rise to the very idea of higher learning. Christianity has been the greatest force for education throughout all of history. Most of the world’s languages were first set to writing by Christian missionaries. The first book in most languages of the world has been the Bible. Christianity has been the greatest force for promoting literacy worldwide - throughout all of history.
The William Carey Bible Institute is a Reformed, Evangelistic, Biblical and practical leadership training programme. Inspired by the steadfast example of the “Father of Modern Missions”, Dr. William Carey, this Institute is dedicated to changing lives and transforming cultures.
THE ROOTS OF EDUCATION
The pursuit of the knowledge of God in a systematic, philosophical and in-depth way led to the phenomenon of universities all around the world. It was the Christian Faith that gave rise to the very idea of higher learning. Christianity has been the greatest force for education throughout all of history. Most of the world’s languages were first set to writing by Christian missionaries. The first book in most languages of the world has been the Bible. Christianity has been the greatest force for promoting literacy worldwide - throughout all of history.
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How Can Bible Schools Become More Efffective?

In June, we participated in the Bible School Consultation, hosted by Mukhanyo Theological Seminary. 70 Participants represented 20 Bible colleges from all over South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. We were brought together in a lovely Christian lodge with blue crane, springboks, swans and ducks in the tranquil environment. When we saw a bushbaby in one of the trees, it made me miss my bushbaby from Angola who used to sleep in my pocket as I hitchhiked around the country and would come out and play all night!
Tombstones of Seminars
There were tremendous and important presentations at the Bible School Consultation. Professor Flip Buys from Potchefstroom University presented a horrific exposé of the abuse of very young children accused of being witches by so-called church leaders in the Congo. The need for a thoroughly Biblical and practical training for our ministers and missionaries is essential. He laid out the Seven Tombstones of Theological Seminaries:
Tombstones of Seminars
There were tremendous and important presentations at the Bible School Consultation. Professor Flip Buys from Potchefstroom University presented a horrific exposé of the abuse of very young children accused of being witches by so-called church leaders in the Congo. The need for a thoroughly Biblical and practical training for our ministers and missionaries is essential. He laid out the Seven Tombstones of Theological Seminaries:
Leaders for Africa

Every year Africa loses 23,000 university graduates. This includes the very teachers, doctors, engineers and other qualified professionals that Africa most desperately needs. This does not include the many hundreds of thousands of others who left for training overseas and never returned.
Most of the pastors of rural areas where we work have no tertiary education at all. Numerous provincial hospitals are paralyzed for the lack of a single doctor. Not that the community has not produced doctors, but most of them have moved to the city, or emigrated overseas.
Sudanese Christians in America
During a recent ministry trip to the USA, I spoke to a Sudanese Christian Fellowship in Omaha, Nebraska. Many of this congregation had come from Sudan many years ago to study. There were numerous doctors, teachers, technicians and engineers amongst them. They informed me that there were over 30,000 Sudanese just in the city of Omaha. I presented an inspiring slide presentation on what God is doing in Sudan and challenged the Sudanese Christians to seriously consider returning home to help rebuild Sudan on Biblical principles. I reminded them why they had come to America and undertaken their studies in the first place and how much they were needed back in Sudan.
Most of the pastors of rural areas where we work have no tertiary education at all. Numerous provincial hospitals are paralyzed for the lack of a single doctor. Not that the community has not produced doctors, but most of them have moved to the city, or emigrated overseas.
Sudanese Christians in America
During a recent ministry trip to the USA, I spoke to a Sudanese Christian Fellowship in Omaha, Nebraska. Many of this congregation had come from Sudan many years ago to study. There were numerous doctors, teachers, technicians and engineers amongst them. They informed me that there were over 30,000 Sudanese just in the city of Omaha. I presented an inspiring slide presentation on what God is doing in Sudan and challenged the Sudanese Christians to seriously consider returning home to help rebuild Sudan on Biblical principles. I reminded them why they had come to America and undertaken their studies in the first place and how much they were needed back in Sudan.
Below is an interview on From the Frontline podcast
“So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
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