Reaching Recife’s Quarantined Slums

BCM Brazil leadership team Reaching Recife’s Quarantined Slums By: BCM Brazil Team with Jeanette Windle With over six million cases of coronavirus and almost two-hundred thousand recorded deaths, 2020 has been a challenging time in Brazil. BCM’s ministry there,...

Children’s Camps in Corona Time

De Herikon kids camp – 2020 Children’s Camps in Corona Time By: Wim Potman, BCM Netherlands  In Dutch we have a saying: “Nood leert bidden.”  Translated to English, this means something like: “Need teaches a person to pray.” Like much of the planet, mainland...

Handi*Camp 2020 Comes to Zoom

Handi*Camp 2020 Comes to Zoom By: Lauri Barrette  Handi*Camp Canada and summer have been synonymous for twenty years now. Teens and young adults with special needs reference this annual week of overnight camping at BCM’s Mill Stream Bible Camp in northern Ontario as...

“Doing Good” Amidst COVID-19

Relief distributed to pastors By: Rev. Paul Padmaker, Executive Director BCM India India’s first case of the COVID-19 virus was reported January 30, 2020.By the end of May 2020, this had grown to more than one hundred-fifty thousand cases and over four thousand...

Centro Maranatha Goes Digital

Enrique Pasquini in Zoom meeting By: Enrico and Betty Pasquini with Jeanette Windle Italy has been among the hardest-hit nations globally by the COVID-19 virus behind only the UK and the United States for confirmed cases and deaths. BCM Italy field directors Enrico...

“Locking Down ISMT!”

Online Train the Trainer session By Jeanette Windle with Mrs. Pat Govender Pat Govender, BCM Africa director for children’s ministry training, was on faculty at the Global Children’s Forum Leadership Experience training course when her nation of South Africa went on...

Giving Thanks in All Circumstances—Even Social Distancing!

Lisa and Elena Biegert teaching duo By: Lisa Biegert, BCM USA Missionary I have served as children’s ministry director at Grace Bible Church in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, for the last seven years. Before COVID-19, we were experiencing the greatest influx in recent history...

Filling the Quarantine Void

By: Roy Schell  Here in North America, we live a fast-paced lifestyle in which many parents have come to rely on others to provide spiritual guidance for their children. Sadly, for many kids Sunday School, Bible club, youth group, and camp are their only consistent...

Online Serving

Heroes of the Faith – screenshot By: Shantal Artieda The idea of a virus affecting the lives of the entire world population seemed a distance thought to most Peruvians until the first case of a COVID-19 patient in Perú’s capital city, Lima, hit the local news...

Castledaly Cookery Camp Goes Digital

Castledaly By: Jenna Dancy This year an extra ingredient was needed for BCM Ireland’s Easter Cookery Camp—technology. Due to COVID-19 quarantine, BCM Ireland’s camp center, Castledaly Manor, had to close its doors on March 13, 2020, with no word yet when it can...

Social Distancing with a Purpose

By: Brenda Duffield with Jeanette Windle When COVID-19 restrictions were first introduced in Ireland, residents were permitted to attend church with a small number of people. But parents were advised to keep children home as it was thought they were carriers of the...

Bee Adventures with BCM Scotland

Bees Backyard planning session By: Irene Paget When the COVID-19 quarantine forced BCM Scotland to cancel their junior age Easter camp, missionaries Stan and Irene Paget, Fiona Blyth, and Kate Macnab first prayed for God’s leading, then got creative. The planned theme...

God’s Ambassadors to COVID Sufferers

Hungry children being fed By: Ratovohery Jean Aimé, Country Director, BCM Madagascar With just two deaths and about six hundred cases of COVID-19 in Madagascar by the end of May 2020, the effects of quarantine have been far worse for most of the population than the...

Life for a New Season in Sri Lanka

Distributing relief aid  By: Meashed Liyanage, BCM Sri Lanka Country Director with Jeanette Windle The last several months of COVID-19 lockdown have been a battle for survival and a time of mounting fear for many in Sri Lanka. With churches unable to meet or...

“Mullartown Live”

Worship Group By: Gemma Hill, Director Mullartown House Across Northern Ireland, all outreach events and camps have been canceled due to COVID-19 through this summer. At BCM’s camp and retreat center here, Mullartown House, we already had five hundred kids booked into...

BCM Responds to COVID-19

By: Lisa Biegert In less than six months, the word “coronavirus” went from something no one had heard of to all everyone talks about. While the world’s focus has been on COVID deaths, unemployment rates, and how to conduct distance learning for school-age children,...

Go for It!

When one BCM missionary, an ISMT trainer in Papua, Indonesia, returned to her homeland, the United States, for furlough in 2013, she discovered MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). These are free online courses offered by universities such as Stanford, MIT, and...

Amidst COVID

Mother’s day worship service kid’s song By: Gerlyn de Jesus, National Director, BCM Philippines News concerning the outbreak of coronavirus popularly known as COVID-19 went viral during the early months of this year. Little did we here in the Philippines...

BCM Canada in COVID-19 Times

BCM Canada – Zoom conference call By: Lauri Barrette When Canada’s government shut down all “non-essential services” and mandated physical distancing due to COVID-19, BCM Canada was presented with an interesting challenge. How to move forward when virtually...

Women Breaking Free in Durban, South Africa

Durban women’s camp session By: Lisa Biegert In South Africa, August is hailed as Women’s Month. BCM missionaries and volunteers used this opportunity to host the first South African BCM women’s camp August 23-25, 2019, at Pennington Camp James on the south...

Reaching a Unique Community in Suriname

International Academy of Suriname (IAS) campus By: Linda Smit For decades and across five continents, BCM has been committed to reaching children for Christ through a wide spectrum of ministry—Bible clubs, camps, school release classes, VBS, puppet ministry, and more....

Modeling Jesus with a Fat Lip

Streamside Camp game time   By: Craig Vincent, Director Camp Streamside BCM’s Streamside Camp & Conference Center recently finished its 2019 summer season with almost three hundred campers over a period of five weeks. Camp is usually filled with joy, smiling...

Taking the Lead

Ephraim Ngendakuriyo leads training By: Jeanette Windle With  half of Africa’s population under the age of fifteen, reaching and discipling the next generation who are the future of both Africa and the African church cannot be done Lone Ranger-style. Multiplication...

Bringing the Church to Durban’s Hospitals

By: Lisa Biegert Lying in a South African hospital bed in 2014 recovering from a serious fall, BCM missionary Cobie Viljoen looked up to find himself surrounded by hospital staff working to keep him alive. As a youth, God had placed a missionary calling on his life....

Standing Firm in Nepal

New church property – Nepal By: Jeanette Windle Four-and-a-half years have passed since Kathmandu’s historic earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale destroyed BCM Nepal’s Milestone Church facility along with upwards of six hundred thousand buildings across Nepal...