BICA Biblical Institute of Central America

El Progreso, Honduras Established 1998 Guatemala City, Guatemala Established 2004

George Hall Executive Director

Director of Development Roberto Alvarez Jr. Director of Development Nashville, TN robertojr.bica@gmail.com (615) 982-2148

BICA – El Progreso, Honduras Ricardo Santamaria Co-Director Carlos Pineda Co-Director

Guatemala City, Guatemala BICA Guatemala City, Guatemala Roberto Alvarez Director Jose Salmeron Assistant Director

Guatemala City El Progreso

The Concept Two year preaching/church workers school Teachers are local preachers Students are taught every book of the Bible over a two year period Each student averages 550 Bible studies over a two year period

Graduates are equipped to pursue their vocation after graduation (Not dependent on the U.S. dollar Each of the 486 graduates becomes a self-supporting worker with an average of 40 years of service. That is 40 x 400 = 16,000 years of service. Several students at graduation have more than 100 new converts

Campaigns In any two year period, the two schools will have 40 week-long campaigns resulting in about 1600 baptisms.

Week-end Work II Tim. 2:2 With 66 students training two disciples each, and having four studies each week-end, that represents 396 Bible studies per week. That represents 40 baptisms per week. 60 week-ends x 40 = 2400 baptisms for two years.

Campaigns Week-end Work 2400 + 2400 = 4800 baptisms Plus Week-end Work (in a two year period) 2400 + 2400 = 4800 baptisms

Total Monthly Operating Costs for Two Schools 66 Students $53,000

Cost of Monthly Operations Director Assistant Director Married Student Single Student $ 850 $ 700 $ 500 $ 350

Costs for transportation to campaigns, teaching supplies, laundry lady, cook for noon meal and travel costs for instructors are figured into per student cost.

For less than 8% of the cost of sending an American missionary to a foreign mission field, you can get a self-supporting lifetime evangelist working in his native country.

Teaching Others to Teach Others (II Tim. 2:2) A conservative realistic projection of the number of teachers of the Gospel that will be taught to teach others (II Timothy 2:2). Generally, our students will teach three people per year to present the gospel to others. Only teachers of the gospel are considered here. Baptisms will number many times more. (Several graduates have baptized more than 100 people in their first 2 years) This projection assumes every student, graduate, and people taught to teach others to teach others will teach 3 people per year.

Grads Year New teachers New teachers Produced by BICA Students Produced by NEW Teachers Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Yr 6 63 1998-2004 189 30 2005 90 30 2006 90 30 2007 90 30 2008 90 30 2009 90 30 2010 90 30 2011 90 44 2012 132 50 2013 150 50 2014 150 50 2015 150 50 2016 150 50 2017 150 50 2018 150 50 2019 150 50 2020 150 517 2151 189 90 132 150 2151 567 270 396 450 6,453 2268 1080 1584 1800 25,812 9639 4590 6732 7650 109,701 41391 19710 28908 32850 471,069 178038 84780 124344 141300 2026242