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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

Making a Difference Summer 2019

Water sports at Camp Sonshine BCM International reaches approximately 35,000 children in camping, mostly in the summer months. But there are other BCM summer children’s ministry outreaches happening, including backyard and sidewalk Bible clubs, Vacation Bible School,...

Nobody Showed Me How!

Sport Ministry with Dillon Abbot Contributed by Orementa Murphy, BCM West Indies  For Orementa Murphy, BCM missionary in the island of Antigua, West Indies, reaching children with the Gospel can take her far afield from the Caribbean (see Sharing, Loving, and Caring...

Thinking Big in East London, South Africa

Plenary session – East London CMC By: Pat Govender and Esther Zimmerman with Jeanette Windle  “2019 marks ten years since my father and I first visited South Africa to launch BCM children’s ministry with Africa’s first Train the Trainer,” shares Esther...

Bringing a New Destiny to House of Fates

Family Outreach with HoF at Elim-Devotional Message By: Jeanette Windle with Damaris Grauer and Birgit Karsch  Sorsok Háza translates literally from Hungarian to English as “House of Fates.” The word “Sorsok” is used in reference to social outcasts whose “fate” or...

A Bumper Harvest in Chiapas, Mexico

Vacation Bible School group By: Jeanette Windle with Manuel, Lidia, and Mayna Dominguez  On the border with Guatemala, the Mexican state of Chiapas was once best known for Zapatista guerrillas, drug trafficking, and as a refugee crossing from Central America. Today it...

BCM Bolivia Appoints New National Director

Practicing during evangelism class By: Jeanette Windle with Roger Espinoza Roger Espinoza was seven years old—and hungry—as he listened to his Sunday school teacher Wilma explaining the significance of each color in the Wordless Book. The date was June 23, 1974, and...

Mobilize Comes to Africa

Group project – Mobilize Africa By: Lisa Biegert BCM International’s children’s ministry training program has three different levels. In Step with the Master Teacher (ISMT) trains children’s ministry volunteers how to teach children. Train the Trainer (TTT)...