Dr Peter W. Smuts

Acting-Principal 

BA LLB DipTh MAR PhD

New Testament, Hermeneutics, NT Greek, Biblical Theology.

Dr. Peter Smuts graduated with a BA.LLB degree from the University of Cape Town, a Dip.Theol from the Bible Institute of South Africa, a Master of Arts in Religion from Westminster Seminary California, and a PhD from Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. His doctoral dissertation was based on a study of Luke 21.

Dr. Smuts has been admitted to practise law as both an Attorney and Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He has, however, not been active in the legal profession since 1985. He has many years of Christian ministry experience particularly in the area of university student ministry where he has filled a number of leadership positions. He functioned as the Acting Rector of St. Paul's CESA in Stellenbosch for a number of months, and held the position of Adjunct Faculty at John Wycliffe Theological College in Gauteng for several years. He is involved in the regular training of Bible study group leaders in his local church and has an advisory role in a local ministry to business people.

He joined the Faculty of the Bible Institute of South Africa in July 1996. Since that time he has held a variety of administrative and academic positions at the college including Dean of Students, Dean of Graduate Studies, Vice Principal, and Acting Principal. He teaches New Testament Interpretation and New Testament Greek, and has an interest in Biblical Theology. He has had a number of articles published in a local theological journal.

Dr. Smuts is married to Dagmar, and they have a son and three daughters.

Rev Gideon Beukes

Dean of students

BA, BTh, MTh, MA Miss.

New Testament, History of Christianity,  Muslim Evangelism.

Gideon holds a BA from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, where he also obtained his BTh and his MTh (cum laude). He received his MA Missiology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. His MTh dissertation was on the history of the church in Lesotho. During his sabbatical in 2008 he returned to Fort Worth and did research on Martin Luther's theology.

Gideon and his wife Madel served as missionaries in Lesotho for ten years (1991-2001). They stayed in the Maluti mountains in a village called Mphaki, where both of them were teachers. Gideon was also the pastor of a Basotho congregation during this time. In 2001 God called them to Fort Worth, Texas for further theological studies. After graduation in 2003 the Beukes family returned to South Africa where Gideon was appointed as faculty memeber at the Bible Institute (BISA).  At BISA he lectures mostly in New Testament, History of Christianity and Muslim Evangelism. Since 2007 he has also been the Dean of Students. His objective is to disciple students for God's glory.

Gideon is married to Madel and they have three children.

Rev Paul Karstens

LTh MTS

Applied Theology: Homiletics and Pastoral Theology

Paul R. Karstens has a Licentiate in Theology from the Baptist Theological Seminary in Cape Town and a Master of Theological Studies from Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College in Canada. He is presently a doctoral candidate at the University of Stellenbosch. His dissertation title is “Preaching in the context of the Cape Flats: a homiletical evaluation of the contribution of expository preaching in the context of cultural transformation.”

Paul has served as a missionary to young people with Baptist Youth of South Africa and also as Youth Director of the Western Province Baptist Youth Association for five years. He was Pastor of Central Baptist Church in Tongaat, Kwazulu Natal (1989 – 1994) and Durban North Baptist Church (1996 – 1997).

In 1997, he returned to Cape Town where he was born, to serve on full time faculty at the Bible Institute of South Africa where he teaches mainly in the areas of Practical Theology and Homiletics. He is a former Dean of students and is involved in the off-campus training of pastors in the CLP (Christian Leadership Programme).

Paul is married to Marilyn and they have three children.

Rev Dr Victor Kuligin

Academic Dean

BS MA MBA MTh DTh

Systematic Theology, Hermeneutics, Church History

Victor Kuligin grew up in the United States but has served in Africa since 1994. He has an MA in Biblical Studies from Wheaton Graduate School and an MTh in Church History and DTh in Systematic Theology from the University of Stellenbosch. He worked for fourteen years in Namibia as lecturer and Academic Dean at Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary (NETS) and has traveled extensively throughout Africa as a guest lecturer in countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Rwanda. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Wheaton College and Trinity Christian College in America. He is the author of several journal articles and one book, Ten Things I Wish Jesus Never Said (Crossway, 2006), the latter also published in Portuguese and Korean.  

Victor is married to Rachel and they have five children. 

Dr Daniel Simango

BA, LTh, BA (Hons), MA (OT), PhD 

Old Testament, Hebrew

Daniel has a Licentiate in Theology from the Bible Institute of South Africa (2000), a BA in Theology (cum laude), a BA Honours in Theology from Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (2002), and an MA in Old Testament from North West University (2006). His Masters’ dissertation title was “The Image of God (Gen 1:26-27) in the Pentateuch: A Biblical-Theological Approach.” He has completed a PhD in Old Testament through North-West University and the title of his thesis was “An Exegetical Study of Imprecatory Psalms in the Old Testament.”

After completing his honours degree in South Africa, he went back to Zimbabwe and he served as pastor of United Baptist Church in Zimbabwe for five years. He also completed a Masters degree part-time through North West University under the supervision of Dr John Ronning. He has lectured a range of biblical subjects at Rusitu Bible College in Chimanimani and at Harare Theological College in Harare. At the Bible Institute of South Africa, Daniel lectures in Old Testament and Hebrew.

Daniel is married to Patience and they have two children, Mandla and Shalom. 

Mr Bruce Wannemacher

BSc MSc MDiv

Old Testament,  Philosopy   

As a student in the United States, Bruce Wannamacher accepted Christ as his Saviour at the age of 19 while attending university. He obtained his BSc in Zoology in 1969 and went on to complete his MSc in Animal Physiology (1973). He then joined the United States Army as a Medical Service Corps Officer. After military service he studied at Covenant Theological Seminary and earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1998. From there he went to the African Bible College in Malawi where he taught for a year. He has been at the Bible Institute since December of 2000, where he has lectured
 in Old Testament, Missions and Ethics.

Bruce is married to Barbara and they have two children.

Mr Tim Galage    

MDiv., ThM. New testament studies

Tim, from New York State became a Christian in his first year of college. After he and Therese were married he attended Trinity Evangelical divinity school. Tim served as a minister of Christian education in a local church before returning to business where he worked in commercial banking for 20 years. He was involved in Church leadership for 20 years in Richmond, Virginia. He and Therese developed a burden for equipping leaders and to prepare himself Tim pursued a master of theology at Covenant theological seminary in St Louis, Missouri.  As well as lecturing at the Bible Institute Tim will mentor leaders at various theological institutions in the greater Cape town area.  His wife is involved in mentoring lady students. 

Tim and Therese serve in SA with Mission to the World.  They have two adult daughters, Stephanie and Becky

Rev Neil Henry  

Director Christian Leadership Programme

Dip Ed. BA (Theol) BTh (Honours)

Neil holds a Diploma in Education obtained at the Hewat College of Education and taught at Secondary School level for 11 years before entering full time ministry. He served in youth and outreach ministries for several years before commencing his studies at BISA where he earned a BTh and BTh (Honours) from the University of Potchefstroom. He then served as pastor of the Simon's Town Baptist church for four and half years before joining the BISA staff.

He serves on the Christian Leadership Programme, which provides training for indigenous pastors and church leaders. His passion is to develop and teach pastors and church leaders in the area of leadership and sound biblical preaching. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Biblical Counselling with Dr Wayne Mack. Neil is also very active as an itinerant preacher in local churches and at conferences and church seminars.
Neil is married to Patricia and they have they have one daughter, Tahlia, who is has completed her studies at BISA.

Part-Time Staff 

Rev Alan Profitt

DTh, BTh, Hons, MA (practical theology)

Missions, Ancient Cultures and World Religions, English as a Second Language 

Alan Profitt went to school in East London, and completed his schooling in Durban. He worked in Kenya for three years and has done mission work in South Africa for 22 years. He studied at the Bible Institute of SA (Diploma in Theology), and UNISA where he obtained his BTh (1982), majoring in systematic theology and missions.

Alan taught high school for 3 years and obtained a Higher Education Diploma from UCT in 1990. He served as the Assistant to and then as the South African Director of Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) from 1991 and in 1998 assisted AEF with the merger with Serving with Mission (SIM). Since then he has been training churches and students in cross-cultural mission. He has done reading in world religions and cults, and ancient cultures, and obtained his MA from the Baptist Seminary and University of Pretoria in 2005.

Alan is married to Jeni and they have three grown up children and 2 grandchildren. He serves with SIM and works with Upward Sport and Ultimate Goal, in training young adults to coach soccer.  Alan is co-founder of Thembalethu, the International Student Ministry Cafe based at Mowbray Baptist Church. 

Mrs Barbara Wannemacher

BSc (Nursing), MTh

Women’s Ministry

Barbara Wannemacher grew up in northern Illinois, west of Chicago in the USA, and received a BSc in Nursing from Northern Illinois University and an MTh from Covenant Theological Seminary.  She has worked in ministry in the UK, Malawi and has been in South Africa since 2000.  She teaches two courses at BI: Women in Ministry  and  Communicating the Gospel.  Besides her involvement at the Bible Institute, she teaches Bible at a primary school in Masiphumelele.

Barbara is married to Bruce, a BI lecturer, and they have two children and four grandchildren.

Rev Peter Watson

BA, HDE, LTh

Greek and Hebrew Reading

Rev Watson studied for a year at the Bible Institute before going on to complete a BA (majoring in History and Church History) and HDE (majoring in History and Hebrew) through UNISA. He received his LTh from Baptist Theological College. Rev Watson received a commission from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, into the Royal Artillery. Having been involved in farming and the military earlier on, Rev Watson has spent most of his life in teaching and the ministry.

His interest in History (particularly military history), is to study leadership under situations of stress - how people react. In Church History it is to find out what was really said and done, rather than what people like to believe was said and done. His interest in biblical Hebrew and Greek is to enable those who minister God's Word to be able to read it in the original languages. Rev Watson firmly believes that this makes a big difference to personal worship, teaching Christianity and helping Christians, especially in Bible studies.

Rev Watson and his wife Deanna had four children. Rare diseases took three of them away, each one suddenly, over a four year period, the eldest at the age of 15. The youngest child survived and is now an advocate. This tragedy contributed to a revival breaking out at the high school where he was teaching. Rev Watson testifies to how God wonderfully used the book of Job to get them through those traumatic times.

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Mr Martin Mostert

BA, DIP MISS (ANCC UK),  MTH (Missiology) Stellenbosch

Martin Mostert works for “Serving Strangers”, an organisation dedicated to helping local churches reach out beyond themselves to their local communicates. Part of this brief is teaching theological students courses in Missions Theory, Communication and Evangelism.

Martin worked in Thailand with Lesley, his wife, for 13 years. Their church, Claremont Methodist, sent them through OMF and they helped with 3 church planting teams.

On their return from Thailand in 2001 they studied for MTH degrees in Missiology at Stellenbosch. Martin hopes to continue with doctoral studies in Evangelism through UWC. In the meantime he finds as many opportunities as he can to disciple Christians in his fields of expertise, while at the same time still continuing in active evangelistic outreach through his home church. 

Rev Dr Raymond Potgieter

BA & Sc LTh BTh   Hons MTh PhD

Post-graduate Studies

Raymond has a BA et S. Town and Regional Planning from the then Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (PU for CHE) now North West University. He completed a Dip.Th. at the Bible Institute of South Africa in 1979 followed by Hons. B.Th. (1985) through the University of South Africa (UNISA). He was ordained in 1982. His M.Th. dissertation in 1995 dealt with the particular apologetic methodology of Francis A. Schaeffer. During a sabbatical in 1998, while a visiting scholar at Redcliffe College in Gloucester, England he did some groundbreaking research in the relationship between science and Christian religion. This culminated in a Ph.D. thesis (PU for CHE) in 2002 that dealt particularly with the panentheistic methodology as applied by Keith Ward to cosmology and applied to a lesser or greater degree by a number of Christian scientists and theologians. Raymond’s thesis prepared some groundwork towards formulating a biblical cosmological model that deals specifically with the tension of the immanence and the transcendence of God.

Raymond was a senior lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Christian Reformed Theological Seminary 1999-2005 in Benoni and academic dean of the Wesleyan Evangelical Seminary 2003-2005. He has had four articles published and has written a commentary for non-profit purposes on the Gospel of Mark from an African Perpsective (some 250 pages). This commentary is translated into Xhosa and is being translated into more African languages by the Wesleyan seminary and a copy should be available on the revised website of the Wesleyan Evangelical Seminary.

Raymond is married to Michelle and they have two adult children and one grandchild.

Part-time lecturers 2012

BI periodically offers courses which require specialised tuition.  This year we are pleased to have the following lecturers join us: Luke Giles. Simon Jooste, Mike Lombard and Andrew Barnes