Using technology to equip the believers at hard, hostile and hidden places
Six years ago, God led me to take a course during my seminary on “How to start a Bible Institute.” Later, God provided the curriculum and resources to plant residential Bible Colleges, and we are grateful for them.
However, for the last two years, God was putting in my heart to start an Online Urdu Bible Institute. The main reason to start OUBI was that many believers and bio-vocational missionaries reached out, requesting that they be trained with proper Biblical and Theological training.
They don’t have a seminary or Bible College in their city, and they can’t afford to travel to other cities because of their jobs, families, or ministry work. Moreover, there are no such Online Biblical programs in the native Urdu language available to meet this need for discipleship.
So, I continued praying for the Holy Spirit to give directions. A few months ago, although we had everything to kick off the OUBI. However, I didn’t have time to do so because of my job, family and ministry responsibilities. In June, God provided a new job that allowed me to teach once a week. For the last two months, 10 students from different parts of Pakistan joined us through Zoom to learn the word of God. The goal is to use the technology to train and send these believers to their towns and villages because the harvest is plentiful and there are few, and we are only doing this to fulfill God’s call and to glorify God alone.
It’s genuinely encouraging for us to witness our Online Urdu Bible Institute experiencing growth in enrolment. With every new student joining the program, we are experiencing that God is sending us these young seniors who have the heart to learn the word of God.
On Feb 09, during the orientation, “Nouman (a Christian soldier serving in the military of Pakistan) shared that he is the first person in his family and village who took believers baptism and came out of catholicism. He further shared, “My goal is to learn the proper word to witness the gospel message, I praise God for OUBI!