Origins

In the summer of 1979, key leaders from 20 missions met to launch a united, inter-mission effort for advanced biblical training in closed countries.

Dr. Joseph Dillow was chosen to lead this effort. Five of those missions initially agreed to cooperate in developing a comprehensive leadership training program for laymen who desired to become church leaders, resulting in the Biblical Education by Extension (BEE) training model.

Dr. Dillow recognized the power of collaboration and soon 12 missions were participating in course creation, translation, publication, physical delivery, and facilitating training. This collaboration realized great success in training pastors and lay leaders in closed areas through their cooperative efforts.

With the emergence of the Internet, Dr. Dillow envisioned an online collaborative environment for both creating and delivering biblical training materials to unreached areas.

These ideas have come to fruition as the Internet Biblical Seminary (IBS).

The original concepts have since been extended to embrace a vision of bringing high quality training materials to believers throughout the Body of Christ through partnerships with like-minded churches and missions who embrace the IBS core values and Doctrinal Statement.