Hokkaido Bible Institute

The Hokkaido Bible Institute (HBI) is a Bible seminary in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Started by OMF in 1963, its goal is train and equip pastors and laypeople for service in the Japanese church. HBI operates independently to OMF Japan, though the teaching staff does include some OMF missionaries and the OMF Hokkaido Regional Director sits on the HBI board.

This OMF project is to facilitate the transfer of support gifts and mobilise other support for HBI.

HBI was started in 1963 to address the fact that there were no bible colleges or seminaries in Hokkaido at the time. This has now changed, but HBI continues its mission of training pastors and laypeople to be leaders in the church in Japan. Students come from both within and outside of Hokkaido. Currently HBI offers a 3-year course for training pastors and a 1-year course for training laypeople.

HBI’s (Japanese) website is here: http://www15.plala.or.jp/bible-hbi/index.html

HBI is located at: 3-1-61 Kitago1jo, Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido

For more details contact the Business Manager at jp.fm@omf.or.jp