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STUDENT LIFE

Learn more about life as an MBC student, our campus, and our area.

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Welcome to MBC

MBC offers an exciting community with endless opportunities to get involved. Billings is an exceptional setting. Our students enjoy easy access to outdoor recreation like backpacking, snowboarding and skiing, biking, hunting and fishing. The many businesses in Billings provide employment opportunities.  And ministry opportunities abound with local churches, college ministries, and other organizations.

Discover Billings

Explore our vibrant city and all of the exciting activities that come with it.

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Student Activities

Student activities are part of your relational fabric at MBC!

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There are informal activities like: game nights, shared meals, hiking, bonfires, attending concerts, floating the river, and many more.

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There are school-sponsored activities like: visiting Yellowstone National Park, Thanksgiving Meal, Serving at the Montana Rescue Mission, Christmas Banquet, Local Farm Outing, and more.

Discipleship

"What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." 

2 Timothy 2:2

Our Discipleship Goals

Our understanding of discipleship leads MBC to work toward the following goals for our students as we intentionally direct them through our relationship with them.

  1. Each student will experience personal growth and maturity in Christ.

  2. Each graduate will be committed to engage in discipleship within the local church and surrounding world.

  3. Each graduate will be equipped to effectively disciple others, who will then disciple others.

  4. Each graduate will be committed to a life of disciple-making.

Our Heart for Discipleship

Montana Bible College believes that discipleship is at the very core - it's built right into our mission to "equip disciple-makers for the glory of God and the advancement of His Church."  

We believe that the calling by Jesus to be disciple-makers is a matter of obedience for all His followers and is, therefore, a necessary component of Christian theological education. 

Our Process of Discipleship Training

To train students to be actively and perpetually engaged in discipleship, MBC has created a specific disciple-making curriculum as well as intentional discipleship opportunities to be a part of every student's experience.

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We not only desire and encourage our students to be disciple-makers, we want them to graduate with the necessary skills to be effective in the endeavor.  We are convinced that effective Biblical discipleship is all about relationships and happens within the context of relationships.  

Our processes are designed to teach proper relational alignment in 3 key directions:

  1. UP:  Discipleship requires healthy intentional relationship between Christ and His follower.

  2. IN: Discipleship requires healthy intentional relationships amongst fellow Christ-followers.

  3. OUT: Discipleship requires healthy intentional relationships between Christ-followers and the world.

MBC seeks to teach relational alignment in these 3 key directions through classroom instruction, encouragement of personal spiritual growth, small student discipleship groups, and ministry opportunities in our community.

Dorm Life

Living in community with other Christian students is an important aspect of your education!  Laugh.  Eat.  Study.  Play.  Serve.  Build relationships that last a lifetime.  Grow in Jesus together.  Help each other.  Make one another stronger.

Local to Global

The heart of Jesus is global. His commission to make disciples is global. The mission of every church, whether in small-town America or the big city, is global. And though the truth of the gospel looks the same the world over, wise shepherds and missionaries must bring this gospel and establish and shepherd the Church in very diverse settings. Because of our setting in Montana, we are uniquely fitted to specialize in town and country ministry. But because our calling is global we train all our students to have a global heart, and we train some specifically for cross-cultural ministry, whether to an American Indian tribe in Montana or a people group across the world. Since the majority of places and churches in the world are small, we believe our specialization brings an added strength to our cross-cultural training.

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Billings sits on Interstate 90, and you can fly out of Billings to anywhere in the world. And students from all over the world are coming to Montana State University Billings. Combine our calling with our setting, and MBC students and graduates truly have a gateway to the world!

Churches in Billings

The following is by no means an exhaustive list of churches in Billings; however, it gives a good start to help you connect with churches where other MBC students have found a home.

MBC does not endorse any particular church.  We encourage our students to be faithful students of God's Word and to connect with churches that preach and teach the Bible, hold fast to time-tested orthodox doctrine, lead their people to apply Biblical truth in life, and seek to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.  

Rocky Mountain Community Church

Presbyterian Church in America

Size: 100 - 500

Valley Bible Church

Non-Denominational

Heights Baptist Church

Southern Baptist Convention

Grace Bible Church

Non-Denominational

Size: 100 - 500

Faith E Church

Evangelical

Size: Over 500

Emmanuel Baptist Church

Montana Southern Baptist Convention

Size: Over 500

Cornerstone

Reformed Baptist

Size: 100 - 500

Christ's Covenant Reformed Church

Communion of Reformed Evangelicals

Size: Small

Word of Life Fellowship

Foursquare

Size: 100 - 500

Holy Spirit Anglican Church

Anglican Church of North America

Size: Small

Harvest

Evangelical Church of North America

Size: Over 500

First Alliance Church

Alliance

Size: 100 - 500

Faith Chapel

Foursquare

Size: Over 500

Elevation

Southern Baptist Convention

Size: Over 500

Connections Church

Western Conference of the Evangelical Church

Size: 100 - 500

Big Sky Bible Church

Evangelical

Size: Small

Student Resources

Facing a challenge?  We'd like to help.

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Life Challenges?

Struggling?  Need someone to talk with?  Need food or clothing help?  Is a disability bringing challenges your way?

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Academic Challenges?

Visual or hearing impaired?  Learning challenges?  Need academic coaching?

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