Still Giving Beauty for Ashes
Fiona being baptized By: Lauri Barrette When my husband Daniel and I were involved in a devastating car accident in 1984 just four-and-a-half months after we were married, God’s comforting presence was palpable (see Split Second Tragedy Becomes God’s Glorious...A Spark Lit in Guyana
ISMT Training – Georgetown By Lisa Biegert The first ISMT spark was lit in the Caribbean country of Guyana in April 2018 when BCM’s children’s ministry training program was introduced to hundreds of its church leadership (see Celebrating Easter with God’s People...Never Too Old to Reach Kids
Lenore leading club By: Pam Rowntree, BCM Canada A ninety-two-year-old senior, Francie lives in a small southern Ontario town where there was no Bible ministry to children. She had taught Bible club many years ago and was familiar with BCM and its teaching materials....Shining for Jesus in Northwestern Myanmar
BCM Myanmar campers – Zomi people By: Jeanette Windle with Dr. Jacob Mung, BCM Myanmar Director One hundred-fifty-eight children ages eight to fourteen gathered in the Zomi village of New Thalmual in northwestern Myanmar for five fun-filled days of year-end Bible camp...A Banner Still Raised High in Spain
2018 Bethel Camp Outing to Royal Summer Palace Gardens By: Jeanette Windle On Saturday, September 15, 2018, more than two hundred-fifty visitors from across Spain and six other countries gathered in the small mountain village of La Granja where the summer palace of...Animal Puppets 101: Turning Paper into Children’s Ministry
By Karen Whiting Animal hand puppets made of paper are an easy, inexpensive craft that can be used in any children’s ministry regardless of country or language. These little creatures can entertain children while also sharing Bible truths and facts about their own...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...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...“Serving the Lord with Joy in Suffering”
ECWA Retreat Center – conflict zone By: Jeanette Windle with Stephen and Jane King “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,...Celebrating 70/40 in Northern Ireland
Celebrating Mullartown’s 40th By: Jeanette Windle with Elizabeth Spence and Dorothy Armstrong, BCM Northern Ireland Board May 19, 2018, marked significant events in the United Kingdom, including a royal wedding (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) and England’s...Building Boys God’s Way
Pioneer Boys 2018 Pioneer Boys evening campfire By: Bob Emmett, Director, Mandaville Camp & Retreat Center 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...Looking to the Next Half-Century at Cortland Bible Club Camp
Early photo of Cortland Bible Club Camp By: Jeanette Windle “Cortland Bible Club Camp has always been a huge part of our family,” shares former CBCC director George Mekeel. “My wife Theresa and I both had older sisters who attended the very first camp in 1968. Theresa...A Snapshot of BCM’s 2018 Summer Camp Season
BCM International reaches upwards of twenty-five thousand children each year in Bible camps in over two dozen different countries across North and South America, the Caribbean, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In countries north of the equator as well as...Making Disciples Among Bolivia’s Teens
Saul Echelar leads volleyball training – Sports Club By: Gladys Echalar with Jeanette Windle “How can I become a missionary?” Andres asked BCM Bolivia missionary Saul Echalar. A member of the Echalars’ Teen Bible club, Andres comes from a difficult home life...Celebrating Easter with God’s People in Guyana
By Shantal Artieda with Jeanette Windle From March 30th-April 7th, 2018, BCM International President Marty Windle and BCM Peru field director Jonatan Odicio joined BCM Guyana missionaries Ron Charles and Stanley Boodie for an Easter Christian workers conference in the...A Heritage of Faithfulness
By: Marc Hoyle BCM volunteer Yvonne has been teaching Release Time Bible Clubs to second and third grade girls in Warren County, PA, for eighteen years. She admits to slowing down a bit now that she is 89 years old. Every Tuesday and Thursday in two different...Responding to a New Macedonian Call
By: Lisa Biegert with Chuck and Cathy Powers Tucked away in the north of France is a small town known for its beautiful pottery and quintessentially French countryside. But beneath its picturesque exterior, Desvres hides a spiritual darkness. The area is steeped in...Remembering the Prisoner in the Name of Jesus
By: Jeanette Windle with Freddy Chavez “I truly am a sinner and deserve this punishment,” confesses Prisoner M to BCM Bolivia missionary Freddy Chavez. “None of my family knows I am here in prison. I come from a place a day’s bus ride from here. I need someone to...Growing Fruit on Other’s Trees in Romania
By: Lisa Biegert with Sandy Barber “It’s amazing how fruitful our lives can be if we allow God to grow the fruit on other people’s trees!” exclaims BCM missionary Sandy Barber. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Bob and Sandy Barber were introduced to a Romanian ministry,...BCM Celebrates New USA Ministries Director
By: Elizabeth Byler New USA Ministries director Marc Hoyle was born into a missionary family in France, instilling in him a heart for missions and the French people. But by age seventeen, he wanted to be an architect more than a missionary. Meeting a missionary who...Snowfall Places No Damper on Fun at BCM Camps
[divider] SNOW BOWL COMES TO MANDAVILLE [hr] Winter programming for BCM’s Mandaville Camp & Retreat Center in upstate New York near the Canadian border wrapped up with a free family snow day Saturday, January 13th, and three separate overnight Snow Bowls, each...Big Fruit From Small Seeds in Suriname
By: Jeanette Windle with Imro and Linda Smit “So many big, important things—in fact, most of them—start very small,” expresses BCM missionary Linda Smit. “We’ve seen this over the years on the BCM Suriname field and are seeing it once again.” Unique in South America,...Impacting Regions Beyond with ISMT
By: Sandy Barber, Marion Odicio, Pat Govender, Luba Valkov, and other ISMT contributors BCM’s teacher training curriculum In Step with the Master Teacher (ISMT) is designed not just to equip children’s ministry leaders, but to multiply quality teachers around the...Rewriting Hope into Brazil’s Written-Off Favela Children
By: Lisa Biegert Adults might expect a conversation with a five-year-old to be funny and even silly. You don’t anticipate an emotionless small boy to state nonchalantly, “The police killed my brother for trying to steal from people on the bus.” But such a conversation...Products
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