St John's Institute (SJI) or Hua Ming (Chinese: 華明) is a K-12 private Filipino-Chinese Catholic school in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Both were originally seminarians from the province of Hopeh (now Hebei), and in 1949 they fled to the Philippines to avoid persecution by the Chinese Communist Party due to their faith.

Su narrates that they snuck out of their dormitories at night using blankets as ropes to climb down from the windows, to a waiting sampan at the banks of the nearby river.

[2] Six months later, they were then moved to the St. Joseph Seminary in Mandaluyong complex (now the site of the Ortigas Center), where they finished their theology courses.

[4][5] Classes began in June 1959; they were originally held in a vacated area of the shopping center, while a new school building was being constructed.

[6] On May 10, 2017, it was announced that the Queen of Peace Church would no longer be an official place of worship starting May 31; consequently, the school was also stripped of its Catholic status.

[7] This is a list of all principals who managed the school since its founding:[5] The main campus is located along Hilado St., near the Capitol Hills Shopping Center in Bacolod.

[5] St. John's Institute is a founding member of NOPSSCEA, an association of private schools in the province that organizes primarily athletic and cultural events.

In 2015, the Bacolod City Police Office was informed of an attempted kidnapping incident that occurred within the school's premises, leading to heightened security measures around the campus.

[11] Security concerns were again raised in 2017 amidst the Queen of Peace Church dispute with at least two noted cases of attempted kidnapping.

[14] According Lt. Jonito Pastrana of the BCPO, the school had also received similar text messages from an unidentified sender the month prior.

[18] Lt. Pastrana stated, “Maybe it’s perpetrated by a disgruntled employee and we now have a person of interest.”[13] He added that they will coordinate cybercrime unit trace the origin of the text message, and that the texter, if ever found, would be will be charged for violation of President Decree 1727 in relation to Section 6 of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act No.