The Wesleyan Bible Institute of Suriname is a small Bible School located in the Flora District of Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname.
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History
The Wesleyan Bible Institute was restarted, after a fifteen-year period marked mainly by inactivity, by missionary Steve Pocock in 1996. The Bible School building in Flora was built between 1999 and 2000 through financial contributions in the United States and by four teams of volunteers who came from the United States and Canada to help complete the building.
Purpose
The school's purpose is to train pastors and church leaders for The Wesleyan Church in Suriname. Classes are offered at the main campus in the district Flora, in the capital city of Paramaribo.
Building
The building has: one large meeting hall (suitable for 100 people), two class rooms, and a one-room library. The library has 500 volumes of books in Dutch and hundreds of books in English.
Expansion
Extension classes have been taught in Moengo, a mining village on the edge of the jungle, in the Commewijne district. These extension classes have made leadership training available to students who otherwise would find it extremely difficult to attend school in the capital city.