BCM International

Reaching Children and Strengthening Churches Worldwide

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)...

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...

Partnering with Awana in Bolivia

Bolivia AWANA regional leaders with Odicios and Espinozas By: Shantal Artieda BCM International has a long-standing relationship with Awana Ministries, including partnering together to create our Sharing Christ with Kids training curriculum. Awana Ministries has a...

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...

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...