Independent Baptist Institute exists to equip local churches, pastors, and missionaries with clear Bible training that can be taught, reproduced, and used in real ministry.
Independent Baptist Institute provides Bible training resources designed to strengthen New Testament churches worldwide. Our goal is simple: help believers understand the Scriptures, ground churches in sound doctrine, and equip leaders to teach others also.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations…
Teaching All Nations grew out of a burden to make Bible institute-level training accessible to the local church—especially where traditional Bible college options are limited or out of reach. As training materials developed through the Independent Baptist Institute, the need became clear: churches and missionaries needed a simple way to access, teach, and share these resources for ongoing discipleship and leadership development.
Today, Independent Baptist Institute serves as a hub for Bible teaching materials that are practical, doctrinally grounded, and built for reproduction—so training can continue long after a class ends or a missionary moves to the next field.
Pastor Dan Botterbrodt has spent decades teaching and preaching the Bible in local churches and on the mission field. His calling has always been simple: faithfully open the Scriptures, make the truth clear, and help others do the same.
Out of that burden, the Independent Baptist Institute was born. Pastor Dan saw the need for Bible institute-level training that could be used directly in the local church—especially by church planting missionaries, national pastors, and men preparing for ministry who may not have access to traditional Bible college settings.
His ministry emphasizes verse-by-verse Bible teaching, Baptist doctrine, and a strong commitment to the authority of the King James Bible. Pastor Dan’s heart is to multiply laborers by training pastors, missionaries, and church members to rightly divide the Word of truth and to plant and strengthen New Testament Baptist churches around the world.
Bible training should be simple, text-driven, and church-strengthening. Our goal is to help believers move beyond surface-level familiarity and grow into confident students of Scripture—able to follow context, understand doctrine, and discern truth from error.
Independent Baptist Institute emphasizes verse-by-verse Bible teaching because it keeps every lesson rooted in what God actually said—not opinions, trends, or personalities. We want the message to stay anchored in the text where it belongs.
We aim for a teaching style that is straightforward and organized, so pastors, missionaries, teachers, and church members can use each lesson with confidence—whether for personal study, discipleship, or a church training class.
We believe the best training multiplies. The goal isn’t just knowledge, but equipping servants who can teach others also—raising up laborers, strengthening local churches, and supporting ministry from established congregations to new mission-field church plants.
Independent Baptist Institute was not built as a stand-alone project—it flowed out of the work of the local church. Pastor Dan Botterbrodt serves through Foundation Baptist Church in Crete, Nebraska, a New Testament Baptist church committed to staying anchored to the unchanging truths of God’s Word in a world that is constantly shifting. The church purposefully follows Biblical principles and practices held by true New Testament churches since the time of Christ, emphasizing preaching from the preserved words of God (KJB in English), Baptist distinctives, music, and standards free from worldly influence, and separation unto Christ. The heart behind it all is to keep Christ preeminent—not following popular personalities or political leaders—and to proclaim the same clear gospel message: repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
If you’re a pastor, missionary, or church member looking for clear teaching resources you can trust and use, we’d love to help. Explore the training archives, share materials with your church, and reach out if you have questions about implementing these resources in your ministry.