From the Editor
I was in Nairobi, Kenya, chatting with a Christian publisher from United Arab Emirates. When I explained I served with BCM International, his face lit up. “I know BCM. Many years ago, your ministry leaders in Tamil Nadu, India, trained me in children’s ministry.”
I’ve enjoyed variations of this conversation with complete strangers literally around the planet. “I came to Christ at a BCM Bible Club in Philadelphia … Amsterdam … Glasgow.”
“As a kid I attended BCM’s Camp Sankanac in Pennsylvania. Their counselors showed me Christ’s love and changed my life.” Or Big Sky Bible Camp in Montana. Mill Stream in Canada. Centro Betel in Segovia, Spain.
This year BCM International celebrates its Diamond Jubilee since its founding as the Bible Club Movement in 1936. Seventy-five years of teaching God’s Word to children and adults in more than fifty countries on five continents leaves a rich legacy of people impacted by the life-transforming gospel of Jesus through the ministry of BCM International. In this issue we honor that legacy. We invite you to join us in field celebrations from the Philippines to Canada, to reminisce with us at God’s working over the decades.
But while we honor the past, we celebrate as well the exciting on-going ministry of BCM around the planet. 1500 newly trained children’s ministry leaders in Nigeria. A church plant project in the very town where BCM founder Bessie Traber first taught children in the Philippines. An exciting new publishing partnership in Kenya.
Join us in honoring those who’ve served God so faithfully with BCM International over the last seventy-five years. And in celebrating an on-going future of “Reaching Children and Developing Churches Worldwide.”
