Uganda Bible Institute Mbarara is a twelve-acre campus located in Southwest Uganda on the northeast side of Mbarara at Nyamityobora. In 2008, Uganda Bible Institute was granted a license to operate as a Tertiary Institution by the National Council for Higher Education. The programs currently offered are Certificates and Diplomas in Theology. Students have options of either full-time recess or In-service programs.
History: God brings His Church to maturity through the teaching of His Word (Ephesians 4:11-15). In the Ugandan church, discipleship has not kept pace with evangelism. Church planting has outpaced pastoral training, and untrained leaders and their congregations are ill-equipped to speak to the issues challenging the African Christian. The Church of Uganda tries to meet these challenges through the establishment of the Uganda Bible Institute. Rev. Canon Johnson Twinomujuni, a Ugandan ordained minister in the Church of Uganda and graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary, is the principal of the Institute.
Goals: Equipping church leaders with knowledge and skills in Biblical Studies, providing facilities for residential students and leaders’ conferences, developing a library which facilitates theologically conservative scholarship, encouraging leaders to develop theological and discipleship materials, working in cooperation with existing theological programs and connect overseas churches, organizations and higher institutions with UBI.
Core Values: Love, Worth, Accountability, Discipline and Truth.
Mission: The chief aim of Uganda Bible Institute Mbarara is to strengthen the Church in Uganda and beyond through theological education by training and equipping church leaders with the necessary knowledge and skills to rightly understand and effectively teach the Word of God to their congregations and the non-believers.
Vision: An informed, transformed, theologically sound and Christ-centered Church.
Statement of faith: Uganda Bible Institute is committed to The Thirty-Nine Articles as embraced by the Church of Uganda. A summary of key beliefs is listed below with amplification from historical confessions and creeds. All board members and faculty must sign this Statement of Faith annually. The key beliefs include the Bible, the Godhead, Humanity, the Way of Salvation, and Justification by Faith, the Church and the Christian Hope.