The University Bible Fellowship (UBF) is a mainline evangelical church dedicated to the task of campus evangelism. Our main work is helping students to study the Bible and live according to its teachings.

John 5:39-40 says that our Bible study should lead us to Jesus and to life. Jesus promises that if we continue to study the Bible, we will know the truth and the truth will set us free (Jn 8:31-32).

One-To-One Bible Study

In this collective society one person can easily be ignored. But when we learned through Bible study how God helped one person Abraham for 25 years, and how Jesus our Lord helped Twelve one by one, we were greatly inspired to study the Bible with each student on a one-to-one basis.

This kind of Bible study is costly because it involves investment of one's personal time, love and care. But we believe the Bible teaches that one soul is of greater worth than the whole universe.

In one-to-one Bible study, usually we begin with Genesis or John's gospel, in order to learn basic Christianity.

Daily Bible Reading

We also encourage students to read the Bible daily and to pray regularly, using our UBF Daily Bread booklets. Personal time alone with God is necessary for all of us.

Discipleship Training

As Jesus raised disciples from the outset of his ministry, we also pray that God may raise many disciples of Jesus Christ through our prayers and labor of love. We encourage personal study and writing one's own response to God's word. From time to time we share our Bible testimonies with each other in small group fellowship meetings.

World Mission Vision

In the course of Bible study we also learned that our Lord Jesus Christ gave his disciples the World Mission Command, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." So far, God has enabled us to send more than 1,000 missionaries to 80-plus countries of the world.

Bible Conferences

In order to train disciples and broaden our vision, for the past 20 years we have held International Summer Bible Conferences. The first ones were near Niagara Falls. In recent years we have held these conferences at Michigan State University. In 1995, 1700 persons from 48 countries gathered to study the Bible and pray for world evangelization. Those of us who attended still think about the theme of the conference, "The Son of Man Came to Serve and to Give His Life" (Mk 40:45).

We know that no one can change anyone else. So we try to help each student to study the Bible, that through Bible study he or she may come to know God personally, and also come to know himself or herself, and find the clear purpose and meaning of life in our Lord Jesus Christ. In doing this, we can only depend on the work of the Holy Spirit.

As we study the Bible we learn again and again the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. As his followers we pray that we may learn his mercy practically. At our 1984 Christmas worship service in Chicago, we were so encouraged to see students offer $20,000 in Christ for starving Ethiopian brothers and sisters. This offering was sent to Ethiopia through World Vision's president Ted W. Engstrom.

• We believe that the Bible is inspired by God; that it is the only infallible, authoritative word of God, and our final authority in faith and practice.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his virgin birth, in his sinless life, in his miracles, in his vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood, in his bodily resurrection, and in his ascension to the right hand of the Father.
• We believe that all people have been under the bondage and power of sin since the fall of Adam, and deserve the judgment and wrath of God.
• We believe that salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ alone, through grace alone, and that regeneration by the Holy Spirit is necessary to enter the kingdom of God.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
• We believe that the Church is the body of Christ and that all Christians are members of it. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers.
• We believe that the primary task of the Church is to preach the gospel to all creation, and make disciples of all nations.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
• We believe that Jesus Christ will come again in power and glory to judge the living and the dead.