1. BICA
Biblical Institute of
Central America

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

3. George Hall
Executive Director

4. Director of Development
Roberto Alvarez Jr.
Director of Development
Nashville, TN
(615)

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

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

7. Guatemala City
El Progreso

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. Cost of Monthly Operations
Director
Assistant Director
Married Student
Single Student $ $ $ $

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

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. Grads Year New teachers New teachers
Produced by BICA Students Produced by NEW Teachers
Yr Yr Yr Yr Yr Yr Yr 6
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