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(Click HERE to go directly to Donations information and link.) The Foundation for Biblical Studies is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the advancement of biblical studies worldwide. We are a non-profit corporation registered with the State of Utah and we are a 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt Public Charity. [Public charity status: 170 (b) (1) (A) (vi)] All donations to the Foundation are tax-deductible. The main recipient of the Foundation is Salt Lake Bible College, which is a free online Bible College that serves thousands of God's people worldwide and some students who are of other religions but are curious about the Bible, and even some who are atheist. SLBC is a direct ministry of the Foundation. The secondary recipient of the Foundation is the Baptist Schools Accrediting Association, which is a free accrediting agency for fundamental Bible Schools that meet the highest standards of biblical education. DONATE Debit card or Credit card donations: Notice: Donations of $1,000 and over should be made by check or direct transfer. Click the email link below to email us for information. Donations by mail:
The Foundation was set up in September of 2009 to carry on the biblical tradition handed down from it's parent organization, Salt Lake Baptist College which is a ministry of Bible Baptist Church of Taylorsville, Utah. Bible Baptist Church is a non-denominational, non-protestant, Independent Baptist Church which recognizes no earthly ecclesiastical authoritative body and has no head but the Lord Jesus Christ. The parent organization, Salt Lake Baptist College, was set up as an educational institution of Bible Baptist Church in 1983 to teach God's Word. From that time backward this educational heritage stretches from Church to founding Church with an unbroken lineage that can be historically traced for nearly two millennia to the very Church that Jesus conceived of and brought into existence while here upon the earth. Beginning with the Apostle John, a member of Jesus' original Church, this unbroken heritage has wound its way through centuries of blood, fire, and indescribable hardship and persecution, down to the present day. Inextricably intertwined with that heritage was the Word of God which infused it with direction, authority, and the promise of power and perpetuity from the very God of Creation Himself, JEHOVAH. Imbedded in that heritage was the command of God to study and promulgate His Word to the world so that the world might learn about Him and about His only begotten Son, the Saviour, Jesus Christ. This command was handed down from generation to generation and this God-instituted tradition was imbedded in the very fabric of the churches that held true to the Word of God in spite of the destruction of 50 million adherents that died through the centuries because they adamantly held to this biblical tradition. This biblical tradition inherited by the Foundation for Biblical Studies is simple- expedite the teaching of God's Word on a worldwide basis. SALT LAKE BAPTIST COLLEGE The Church and it's ministry the parent college, Salt Lake Baptist College, comprised of a Spanish college and an English college, is situated in Taylorsville, Utah, which is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The yearly on-campus student body of the college varies from 30-90 students.
Beginning this current sphere of activity to carry on the biblical and time-honoured tradition entrusted to it as a ministry of Bible Baptist Church, Salt Lake Bible College began its online ministry in February of 2008. This college is the second online arm of Salt Lake Baptist College. The first is Salt Lake Baptist College online which is for Baptists only and the second, Salt Lake Bible College, is for anyone who wants to study the Word of God regardless of their church affiliation or spiritual background or lack of either. SLBC online was set up with one bedrock solid foundational principle, to teach the unchanged Word of God to the people of the world and to do so completely free of charge. Everything is online and everything is free to the students. This includes textbooks, workbooks, and all other study materials. All books online for student use are either public-domain classic textbooks and commentaries or else the permission of the authors has been graciously granted to allow us to place their copyrighted works on our website. They are there for free use by our students in their studies as well as for dissemination to those they will in turn teach in their churches, colleges, institutes, Sunday Schools, and other outreaches. Upon graduation the students will receive their degrees, also free of charge. Currently SLBC (Salt Lake Bible College) is spreading the Word of God to 233 countries and territories on all of the 6 inhabited continents of the world. We are currently training students online in 70 different countries and territories and they, in turn, are training thousands of others in the eternal principles of the Word of God. With a registered student body of over 1,400, as of August of 2010, we are now training thousands more through those students. A conservative estimate is that SLBC is currently involved in the Bible training of 20,000 - 25,000 people through our online students, a large percentage of whom are pastors of indigenous churches around the world. Those pastors and teachers, which make up a substantial portion of our student body, report how they are using what they have learned in the online classes to further the Christian growth and Bible knowledge of the members of their congregations. To facilitate this, they report that they are downloading our free online materials and are using them to teach those congregations; and, in addition, they are training preachers called out of their churches who are, in turn, going out and starting hundreds of new churches in villages, towns, and cities in their own countries as well as in neighboring countries. And those preachers sent out are now reporting how they, in turn, are making use of our materials to train the thousands of people in those hundreds of indigenous churches that they have started. It is now reported that they are also using the materials and what they have learned from it to train even more preachers and workers out of their new churches to go out and start even more indigenous churches and to train their members to continue the Great Commission of winning, baptizing, and teaching, that was passed on to them. We are now well into our "third generation" of teachers and students and a "fourth generation" will be in full swing before the end of 2010. By the end of the year, if the Lord tarries, we will conservatively be involved in the training of at least 25,000 - 30,000 of God's children on a regular basis through our students and their use of our online materials. EXTENSION CAMPUSES & AFFILIATES Two of those colleges' 2009 graduating classes are shown below.
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addition to these two extension campuses we have more than a dozen others around
the world teaching the Word of God. There are also several affiliated colleges around the world that
are not official extension campuses but do use our online material. The following map shows the countries, marked in green, where we maintain an online presence and from which we have had responses concerning the college. Currently SLBC (Salt Lake Bible College) is spreading the Word of God to 233 countries and territories and we have had responses from 131 of those countries and territories.
To see the progress of our growth from RECOGNITION & ACCREDITATION We are also currently working with a group striving toward future recognition of their indigenous Bible College by the government of Myanmar. The college and the sponsoring Church are currently both under complete repression by a harsh Military Regime that will not allow them to minister as a church nor as a recognized educational institution in spite of their academic credentials. The repression is solely because they are a Christian organization. Pray for them that the Lord will change the situation so they may be able to once again teach the Word of God without fear of deadly reprisals. MORE INFORMATION AND DONATIONS If you have questions about the Foundation, please use this link to contact us: Questions about the Foundation Debit card or Credit card donations: Notice: Donations of $1,000 and over should be made by check or direct transfer. Click the email link below to email us for information. Donations by mail:
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