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Reaching a Unique Community in Suriname
Modeling Jesus with a Fat Lip
Taking the Lead
Bringing the Church to Durban’s Hospitals
Standing Firm in Nepal
Making a Difference Summer 2019
Nobody Showed Me How!
Thinking Big in East London, South Africa
Bringing a New Destiny to House of Fates
A Bumper Harvest in Chiapas, Mexico
BCM Bolivia Appoints New National Director
Mobilize Comes to Africa
Partnering with Awana in Bolivia
Still Giving Beauty for Ashes
A Spark Lit in Guyana
Never Too Old to Reach Kids
Shining for Jesus in Northwestern Myanmar
A Banner Still Raised High in Spain
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Animal Puppets 101: Turning Paper into Children’s Ministry
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When Children’s Ministries Grow Up
By: Jeanette Windle with Arnold Maviya, BCM Zimbabwe Director Five years ago, Arnold and Paulin Maviya with their entire ministry team, a total of ten, were commissioned as BCM’s first missionaries in Zimbabwe, a nation of seventeen million in southern Africa. Their focus was children’s Bible clubs, reaching a total attendance of more than ten thousand a week in rural and remote areas where there were few or no churches (see Braving Lions, Hyenas, and NIV to Reach Zimbabwe’s Children, BCM World, 2014). But children grow up—and so do children’s ministries. “When you do good outreach programs for children, they […]
An Authentic Encounter
By: Gerlyn de Jesus BCM Philippines National Director Encounters are prevalent in the Philippines. These can be between our military and insurgents, men in uniforms with drug barons, or daily encounters with life’s difficult realities. But one testimony from a BCM church plant in General Santos City, the southernmost urban center of the Mindanao island group, gives witness to a very different and life-transforming encounter. Thirty-three-old Kenny Alain Bulawan was born into a very religious family in General Santos City, a city of a half-million located on Sarangani Bay, which opens into the Celebes Sea that divides the Philippine island […]
“Serving the Lord with Joy in Suffering”
“Please pray for peace and for trauma healing in the Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Kaduna and Zamfara states,” a top church leader for ECWA, Nigeria’s largest evangelical denomination, recently wrote BCM missionaries Stephen and Jane King. “Pray too for the Holiday Bible schools taking place with ECWA across Nigeria at this time and that…
Celebrating 70/40 in Northern Ireland
May 19, 2018, marked significant events in the United Kingdom, including a royal wedding (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) and England’s 137th Football Cup Final, the oldest national football (soccer in North America) competition in the world. But no less significant were the festivities hosted at BCM Northern Ireland’s camp and…
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Building Boys God’s Way
A special place lies tucked underneath a towering grove of hemlock trees along the back edge of a two-hundred-acre section of forest plot in northern New York near the Canadian border. It goes by the name of “Pioneer Campsite”, a secluded spot where each year a small group of adventurous boys and their counselors spend a week just enjoying life together. There is no electricity, no…
