After teaching the book of Isaiah one night, I happened to look up and down the street while locking BJMBI’s door. The Lord burdened my heart. In this crowded district there were many people who had not yet heard the Gospel! Soon regular evangelistic outreaches became part of the annual school schedule with meetings for GIT students and people from the neighborhood, the distribution of New Testaments, neighborhood Bible clubs, and film showings. Eventually a neighborhood mission was established.
Some of the Lord’s finest Filipino Christian soldiers trained at BJMBI during these years and became pastors, pastors’ wives, or full-time Christian workers. They had not only endured rigorous training but also hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic, often arriving home late at night. One provincial student so thoroughly developed the skill of letting the Bible speak for itself that when he planted a church near his home province, other pastors asked him how to prepare sermons!
Looking back on it, BJMBI’s heartbeat was:
“Give us Thy vision of the need of men,
All learning will be used in service then.”
“Bob Jones University Hymn,” by Bob Jones Jr.