Doug Mieras Vice President of Finances
John Nelson Sr. Vice President of Operations
Stuart Page Executive Dean
Building Lives for the Future
time missionary with Word of Life. Later that year he left for Argen tina, where for the next twenty years, he founded and directed the ministry of Word of Life Argentina. God blessed and expanded the work in Argentina to include a Bi ble Institute with some 560 stu dents, camps in Buenos Aires and Pichi Traful and clubs throughout the country. On January 4, 1991, Joe became Senior Vice President of Ministries for Word of Life Fel lowship. He now lives in Schroon Lake, New York with his wife and three children. lecturers are excellent teachers, ready friends and men and women of God. Yet another aspect of the Bible Institute's uniqueness is the students themselves. They come from the world over to learn the Word of God. They have heard of its uniqueness from othes and have come to find out for themselves. Yes, there are many areas that make the Word of Life Bible Institute unique. For those of you who have been students here, as you look through this book, I know you will relive with me the memories of this unique school.
Joe Jordan came to know Christ as Savior through the influence of a Christian businessman who sent Joe to camp at Word of Life Island in 1961. Joe responded to the Gos pel under the preaching of Jack Wyrtzen and God changed the life of a troubled teenager into a young man with a burning desire to be used of God to reach others. Joe graduated in 1969 from Ten nessee Temple University with a bachelor of arts degree in Bible and Theology. He also studied at Phil adelphia College of Bible and Lynchburg College. In 1969, Joe was accepted as a full Another facet of the school's uniqueness is its faculty. The men and women pictured on this and the following pages have ded icated themselves to building lives for the future. They, and the Bible Instutue's guest School class or on Tour in front of thousands of people. The uniqueness of the Bible Institute also has to do with its studies. The curriculum here is based entirely on the Word of God. For one whole year, students at Word of Life study the Bible. They study it as a whole, its major doctrines and individual books on an intense level. Through the course of the year, the student will read through the en tire Bible almost two times.
Travel the world far and wide, and I think you will agree that nowhere will you find a place just like the Word of Life Bible In stitute. It is unique in its program, its studies, its faculty and even its students. The Bible Institute is just entering its third decade of existence, and already many, many of its graduates are in full-time ministry around the world. Foreign missionaries, school teachers, pastors, and many other areas of ministry are filled by Word of Life alumni. In part, this has to do with its program. Here at Word of Life, everyone is involved in hands-on ministry. Each student is taught to be prepared to give their testimony on a moment's notice. This may happen on the streets of New York City, in a Sunday
Joe Jordan Sr. Vice President of Ministries
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