Texas International Bible Institute

Our mission is to train and form Spanish-speaking men and women worldwide for ministry and Christian living, and reproducing these in other people and communities.

We want to promote an environment of love, respect, unity, dialogue, compassion, and service, both in our school and in the local churches and communities where we live.

We teach 40 courses on the biblical text and various ministry skills. We also require our students to do practical field work in their local churches, under the supervision of a full-time ministry coordinator and local leaders. With these skills and practice, they make disciples of Jesus Christ and gather them in local churches wherever they live.

We offer the training described above on three different digital platforms worldwide: live interactive video conferencing, online recorded video courses, and these same courses provided on portable hard drives, DVDs, or flash drives. We create, tailor, and maintain the technology required to do this training; our website, our video conferencing system (Zoom, capacity of 12,300 sites connected at once); our servers with our online courses; our YouTube channel, and any portable storage we supply.

We offer these tools to anyone who desires to be equipped in spiritual formation, biblical knowledge, and ministry of various kinds.

We have had 136 graduates from the full-time program since 2007. We have 192 current full-time students or graduates working in 121 congregations in 79 cities in 18 countries.
As of June 2021, we have a total of at least 2800 students worldwide in our full-time student program, online courses, and local Bible schools.
Since we have begun, we know of at least 21,000 students worldwide who have taken one or more courses with us, in some format.
We have helped plant 64 churches in Latin America, and we know of at least 4900 baptisms in sites where we help train people.

In addition to our undergrad program, we collaborate in a masters program to continue advanced training for some of our graduates. This program currently has 49 students.

We plan to continue to increase the number of full time students, as well the the online and Local Bible School students.
We have a small training program in Austria (English translated to Farsi).
We can increase our technological capability as needed.
We obtained certification in October 2020 from the Asociación de Educación Teológica Hispana (Association for Hispanic Theological Education). This certification is done in collaboration with ATS (the Association of Theological Schools) who accredits all seminaries in the United States. With this certification, our graduates can be accepted at any seminary in the US.
Besides our enrollment increasing as a result of this certification, it also has helped us obtain a grant to further equip our faculty, from the Leadership Education program at Duke Divinity, which in turn is partially funded by the Lilly Endowment.