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)...

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...