Program

Our curriculum covers a two-year period and is offered in both Spanish and English. The institute opens the third week of February and ends the first week of November, with a one-month break in June.

 

HMI invites ministers who, through years of prayerful study, have permitted the Lord to cause the Word to become life in them. They have a message burning in their hearts that they can impart to the students with fervor and revelation, instead of merely sharing information from their intellect- students can discern the difference! Courses taught by those who have focused on their specific subject tend to be fresh and full of life both for the teacher and the students.

One advantage of inviting teachers to share for only one or two weeks at a time, rather than having a resident teaching staff, is that HMI can choose the teacher for the course instead of choosing the course for the teacher. When a Bible institute has resident teachers, those teachers are sometimes assigned courses that they may have never studied before.

 

 The following is a list of courses we offer.

  1. Typology and Numerology
  2. Hermeneutics
  3. Homiletics
  4. Geography of the Bible
  5. The Life of the Pastor
  6. Marriage and the Family
  7. How to Counsel Curch Members
  8. How to Speak in Public
  9. Women of the Old Testament
  10. Women of the New Testament
  11. History of the Church
  12. Ministerial Ethics
  13. Preparation of the Man of God
  14. Evolution
  1. Revelation and Daniel I
  2. Revelation and Daniel II 
  3. Revelation and Daniel III
  4. The Relationship Between the Beginning and the End
  1. Foundations of the Faith
  2. Doctrine
  3. The Holy Spirit 
  4. The Offerings 
  5. Divine Guidance 
  6. Finances 
  7. Prayer
  8. The Cross
  9. The Tabernacle of Moses
  10. Church Government
  11. The Priesthood
  12. Israel and the Church
  13. Raising Children for God
  14. The Kings of Judah
  1. Genesis 
  2. The Life of Christ 
  3. The Journey of Israel from Egypt to Canaan
  4. Christian Conduct
  5. The Journey of Israel from Egypt to Canaan
  6. The Feasts of the Lord
  7. Israel's 42 Stops in the Journey
  8. God’s Plan for Man
  1. Deuteronomy
  2. Joshua
  3. Judges
  4. Ruth
  5. Historical Books
  6. The Books of Restoration
  7. Job
  8. Psalms
  9. Proverbs
  10. The Song of Solomon
  11. Isaiah
  12. Jeremiah
  13. Ezekiel
  14. The Minor Prophets
  15. The Gospel of Luke
  16. The Gospel of John
  17. Acts of the Apostles
  18. Romans
  19. I & II Corinthians
  20. Galatians
  21. Ephesians
  22. Philippians
  23. I y II Thessalonians
  24. Pastoral Epistles
  25. Hebrews
  26. I & II Peter
  27. I, II & III John

 To study at HMI one of the following plans may be chosen.

External Students

This plan is for people who live in or near Guatemala City and can study in the mornings and reserve their afternoons for personal duties. These students live in their homes and are at the HMI facilities only during class times.

The cost of this plan is:

Cost per person:
Annual enrollment Q500
Monthly payment Q500
Intern Students

During the study period, the student lives in the dormitories within the campus facilities. This is the ideal plan for people who live further away from Guatemala City or in another country, although those who live in Guatemala City are also admitted.

To review the kinds of scholarships that we offer, click on: Scholarships

External Marriage

If a couple who lives outside Guatemala City wants to study at HMI and has the financial means to move to the city and cover both years of study, we can help them find a house for rent. (See Scholarships).

Those who teach the courses at HMI are ministers from various denominational backgrounds who have joined Hebron Ministries because of their conviction that teachers who are ordained by God and anointed by the Spirit have been given to the universal Body of Christ and not just to their particular denomination. They are servants who have manifested the ministry of Christ in their lives and have something from God to offer to the ENTIRE Body of Christ.

We believe that the teaching of these ministers will be an eternal blessing for those who wish to extend their spiritual boundaries beyond the limits of their own sector in the Body of Christ and who open their hearts to the truth that is found in the rest of the Body. Those who teach the courses are ministers who have received a love for the truth in the Word of God. A sincere desire for the truth will lead us all, sooner or later, to the altar where prejudices and dogmas are sacrificed so that we can receive the thoughts of God’s heart. The HMI teachers have known the fire of this altar in their own lives.

 

Marvin Byers

Pastor Marvin Byers was born in 1949. He studied Chemistry at the University of Michigan from 1962 to 1966. He then attended Elim Bible Institute in Lima, New York, for three years along with his wife, Barbara Byers. In 1972, they travelled to the Philippines as missionaries, where Brother Marvin taught for three years at a ministerial institute. Afterward, he ministered in New York for two years before moving to Guatemala, where he has ministered since 1978. The Byers lived in Israel for two-and-a-half years. Pastor Byers is the President of Hebron Ministries. Currently, the Byers live in Canton, Texas, and dedicate their time to prayer, writing books, and teaching courses at Hebron Ministerial Institute. They also travel to different countries to give seminars and spiritual covering to Hebron Ministries, which is an international fellowship of churches, ministerial institutes, and missions.

David Machado

In 1986, Pastor David Machado had an encounter with the Lord that changed his life forever. From that moment forward, he knew with certainty that his calling in life was to dedicate himself, full-time, to God’s Kingdom. He has studies in Social and Judicial Sciences and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice. In 1995, he graduated from Hebron Ministerial Institute. In 1996, along with his wife, Sister Elizabeth, they entered the ministry as missionaries to Israel. In 2001, they moved to the United States where they pastored a church in New Orleans for four years, and beginning in 2005, they pastored Hebron Christian Mission in Los Angeles, California, for seven-and-a-half years. Currently, he is the Director of Hebron Ministerial Institute and the general pastor of Hebron Christian Church in Guatemala.

Barbara Byers

Sister Barbara was born again in 1946. She had precious encounters with the Lord from the time she was a young child. When she finished high school she prepared to teach elementary school and taught children for a year. In 1961 she attended Eastern Bible Institute in Pennsylvania for a year. Afterward, she worked as an executive secretary in the University of Michigan. During that time she met her husband, Marvin Byers. They were married in 1965 and in 1966 they moved to New York to study for three years in Elim Bible Institute. She has faithfully served the Lord at her husband’s side for more than 40 years.

 

Juan Carlos Morales

Pastor Juan Carlos Morales was the director of Hebron Ministerial Institute for 15 years (1997-2012) and ministered for several years as adjunct pastor of Hebron Church in Guatemala, Central America. He completed his major of Industrial Engineering in 1985 and began studies in programing and system analysis at IBM. He came to know the Lord in 1978 and began to attend Hebron Church in Guatemala, along with his family, in 1986. He and his wife, Sister Claudia, graduated from Hebron Ministerial Institute in 1994 and are parents of three children. From the time of their graduation, they have served the Lord in the ministry to which He called them. Currently, Pastor Juan Carlos is pastor of Hebron Christian Church in Los Angeles, California.

Jerry Alway

Pastor Jerry Alway came to know Jesus Christ in 1976. Afterward, he studied in a Bible institute in Detroit, Michigan. In 1982, he was elected class president while he was a student at Faith School of Theology in Charleston, Maine. In 1983 he participated in two Billy Graham campaigns. In 1987 he attended Zion Bible Institute in Waverly, New York, and in 1988 he married his wife, Sister Hanna. One year later they moved to Guatemala as missionaries. In 1999, Pastor Jerry and his family opened Grace Tabernacle church in Virginia, the United States, which they have pastored since. Currently, he exercises his ministry teaching and traveling through North, Central, and South America as well as Africa. With the help and support of his family, he has ministered in 18 countries.

Javier Lobos

Pastor Javier Lobos came to know the Lord when he was a teenager in 1978. After having finished his biblical studies in Hebron Ministerial Institute, in 1987, he worked with Hebron Christian Church in Guatemala City. In 1994, he moved to Ecuador with his family, where he pastored Beth-Sion Church in the city of Ambato and supervised six other Hebron Ministries churches in that country. He also established four Bible institutes. In January 2008, he moved to the United States, where he currently pastors a church that is under Hebron’s covering in Dallas, Texas. He and his wife, Sister Cheré, have been married for 21 years and are parents of four children. Pastor Javier Lobos is a member of Hebron Ministries’ International Board.

 

Eliazar Alonso

Pastor Eliazar Alonso came to know the Lord at 12 years of age. Coming from a Christian family, he participated in music and in the local church choir from his youth. In 1973 he was appointed president of the youth alliance in Mexico City, a position that he held for six years. In 1987 the Lord took him to Guatemala with his family to study in Hebron Ministerial Institute. After graduating, they served as directors of the Hebron Choir and in other areas of Hebron Church in Guatemala. Under the covering of Hebron Ministries, they have been pastoring the church, León de Judá, in Mexico City, since 2008.

Oscar Ríos

Pastor Oscar Ríos was born again in 1983. He graduated as an industrial engineer in 1985. He and his wife graduated from Hebron Ministerial Institute in 1989. He has been a pastor for 25 years in different churches under Hebron Ministries in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia. Currently, he pastors a local church in Medellín Colombia, and five other churches in other regions of that country.

Juan Domingo Alurralde

Pastor Juan Domingo Alurralde was born again when he was in his last years of high school. For ten years, he worked as full-time coordinator of Campus Crusades for Christ in Bolivia and Mexico. There, he met his wife, Sister Adolfina. They were married in 1982 and the Lord blessed them with five children. Halfway through 1990, they enrolled as students in Hebron Ministerial Institute and graduated in 1992. From there, they moved and pastored a church in the city of León, Guanajuato, México, under the covering of Hebron Ministries, for nine years. During the last 14 years, they have been pastoring Iglesia Cristiana Betania in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Their three oldest children, who are married, serve the Lord in different areas of the ministry.

 

Hugo Quiñónez

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Jorge Preciado

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Abner Guajardo

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José Ordoñez

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Institute Extensions

Apart from the ministerial institutes located in Guatemala City and Virginia, U.S.A., HMI also has extensions in other parts of the world, which play DVDs of the courses taught in Guatemala.

If you wish to learn more about the location of Institute Extensions, please contact us.

North America

 

Central America and Caribbean

 

South America

 

Rest of the world

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