With a strong commitment to education since its establishment in 2007, AOGBI aims to prepare and equip individuals who are called by God to serve as Pastors, Missionaries, Christian Leaders, Bible Teachers, and Lay Ministers.The program offers different degrees tailored to meet the specific needs of various ministries within the church. AOGBI also values those who are dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus Christ and may provide financial support to eligible applicants. The program is conducted in Indonesian to ensure a contextualized and comprehensive learning experience for students.
Ark of Grace was incorporated on April 26, 2007 as a 503 (c) (3) California nonprofit religious corporation. Its vision is to promote the Great Commission, the Gospel of love and peace to America and the world. Its mission is to train and send missionaries to world communities, to faithfully pray for peace and to network with mission-oriented organizations. As part of its mission, the Galilee School of Mission and Ministry was established in 2008, which later merged with another Bible School, an on-line. Recently this cooperation ended and new efforts were made to re-establish the original mission of an independent educational program.
We have dedicated and committed Ark of Grace Bible Institute to bring contributions in the area of Theological, Biblical, Ministerial. Missional educations to the students who are called by God's grace to be Pastors, Missionaries, Teachers, and Lay ministers around the world faithfully, inter-culturally, to bring them to be able to live in their ministry and mission in any unconditional context, to encourage, and innovate to the fruitful of the gospel.
We believe that the Holy Spirit is who imparts Christ’s new life to all who believe and spiritual gifts for the ministries through baptism into the body of Christ, dwells within all believers, seals them, and empowers them to serve God and His church (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; Eph. 1:13-14, Gal. 5:22-25).
We believe that all human beings are created in the image of God. Through Adam’s disobedience, we by nature became alienated from God, acquired a destructive disposition to sin, and came under the judicial sentence of death (Gen. 1:25-27; Rom. 3:22-23; 5:12-21; Eph. 2:1-3, 12).
We believe that salvation is the gift of God offered to all humanity by grace and received through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 2:8-10; Tit. 2:11-14). We believe that all true believers, having been justified, shall be kept saved forever (Rom. 8:1, 38, 39; John 10:27-30; Phil. 1:6).
We believe the Church, having begun at Pentecost, is the body of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit, a spiritual community of all believers. Local gatherings of believers represent Christ’s presence on earth as they love one another and manifest Christ’s love to the world (Eph. 1:22-23, 5:25-27; 1 Cor. 12:12-14).
We believe in the physical resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous: the righteous to eternal fellowship with God, the unrighteous to eternal punishment, and conscious separation from God (Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 20:15, 22:3-5, 11).
We believe in the return of Jesus Christ, in His kingdom reign upon the earth, and in a glorious, new heaven and earth where redeemed humanity will dwell forever with God (1 Thess. 4:13-18; Zech. 14:4-11; Rev. 20:6).
