BCM International

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“Work Hard—Make it Good—Finish Strong”

By: Jeanette Windle with Sue Sanderson When the 2016 Michigan-Seven team touched down in Bolivia’s lowland city of Santa Cruz on June 19th, it was hardly a first visit for team leader Sue Sanderson. Sue has taught BCM Bible clubs and ministered at BCM affiliate camp...

Finding Refuge in His Everlasting Arms

By Rick Erb, BCM missionary Ukraine/Poland REFUGEE!  Recent global events have caused a tsunami of refugees to hit the shores of many countries, including my own birth nation, the United States.  Probably none of us wants or expects to be a refugee. But several months...

Volunteering for God-Venture in Romania

By: Jeanette Windle with Daniel Rusu “Me! Me! I’ll do it!” Volunteering for new adventures was nothing new for BCM Romania missionary Daniel Rusu, whether skydiving in his teens or a university major with few job opportunities—aircraft engineering. But when caught in...

Sharing “FIHAVANANA” With Madagascar’s Most Vulnerable

By Lisa Biegert The island nation of Madagascar, located off Africa’s southeastern coast, practices what is known locally as fihavanana, a term encompassing concepts of unity, brotherhood, and general peace. To the Malagasy [i.e., Madagascar ethnicity] people, this...

Massive Flooding in Sri Lanka

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.  Philippians 2:4 (ESV)   Dear Friends, Imagine fleeing your home with only the clothes on your back as the flood waters are rising. Thankful to be alive, you search for...

Kiev-BCM Director Dr. Igor Kotenko – BCM Ukraine

Director of BCM Ukraine Dr. Igor Kotenko came to know Christ as Savior in the early 1990s after spending half a week’s salary on a Bible. Read more of Igor and Oxana’s testimony here (Changing Ukraine, One Heart at a Time). Igor’s love for God and concern for his...

Church Plant – BCM Ukraine

Mukachevo, a city located on the far western side of Ukraine near the borders of Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, is the location of a new BCM church plant pastored by BCM missionary Rev. Timothy Dymchenko. The church property was purchased in 2008. Rev. Dymchenko...

Refugees – BCM Ukraine

The crisis in eastern Ukraine has created many refugees, opening new doors for ministry. The Mukachevo church plant cares for more than forty refugees by providing food and helping them find jobs. These include families with children who are poor, hungry, homeless,...

Chaplain Ministry – BCM Ukraine

BCM missionary Alex Tomnitsky is a veteran of the Afghan war who came to Christ in 1996. He shares: “As the war with Russia started, not only was the army not ready, but neither was the church. Nobody here had any practical experience running a chaplaincy ministry....

Camping – BCM Ukraine

BCM Ukraine offers a variety of camps in different locations and different time frames (day camp or full-week). Camps for teens and children take place throughout the summer months, including among war victims and orphans. An exciting additional ministry outreach is...

Youth Center – BCM Ukraine

Dysfunctional families are a common problem in Ukraine, which can result in children and teens growing up on the streets. BCM’s desire is that no child be forgotten or left behind. Keeping this in mind, BCM missionaries Vitali and Valja Lechs began a youth center in...

Children’s Homes – BCM Ukraine

In 2000 BCM missionary Tima Anokhin helped found a ministry to homeless children on the streets of the small village of Velikopolovecke. Volunteers would find homeless children, bring them into the ministry center, and give them food and showers. This grew into a full...

“Here I Am, Send Me—to Hungary?”

By: Jeanette Windle with Damaris Grauer and Birgit Karsch “Dear God, bless Hungary. Help the Hungarian people come to know Christ as Savior. Send missionaries to their country to bring them the gospel.” When Damaris Grauer and Birgit Karsch joined the Eastern Europe...

A Border Crossing for BCM Peru

By: Shantal Artieda The neighboring countries of Ecuador and Peru share many things in common. The friendliness of their people. The Pacific Ocean. The same national language. A similar Latin culture. More pertinently, the same great need to reach one of their...

BCM Ukraine: Speaking Unchanging Truth to an Ever-Changing Nation

By: Lisa Biegert While BCM ministry in the Eastern European country of Ukraine has existed since 1993, political circumstances have recently changed, re-shaping ministries to meet needs of the Ukrainian people in their present circumstances. Because of ongoing...

COMING HOME TO AFRICA’S HEARTLAND

By Jeanette Windle with Lois Lass BCM missionary Lois Lass was just turning thirteen years old the last time she’d set foot in her birthplace—and her heart home. Lois was born in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) to missionary parents Ray and...

Fire Loss in Muntinlupa City Becomes Eternal Gain

By: Gerlyn de Jesus (Director, BCM Philippines) It was just after midnight, February 3, 2016, when fire broke in Bagong Sibol, a neighborhood of Muntinlupa City located in the southeastern part of Metro Manila, Philippines.  Within three hours, at least 100 homes were...

NATIONAL HOLIDAY + FAMILY FUN = MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY

By: Shantal Artieda For Peruvians, October 8th is a national holiday in remembrance of the famous naval battle of Angamos fought in 1879 against the Chileans. Families take a break from life’s daily hassles to enjoy parades, naval reenactments and other interesting...

SINGAPORE WELCOMES LITTWORLD 2015

By: Jeanette Windle “In the end, it will be OK. If it’s not OK, it’s not the end.” Opening keynote speaker Andrew Goh’s reminder of God’s sovereignty and ultimate victory was a timely message for the 278 delegates to Littworld 2015, a global Christian publishing...

NEW LEADERSHIP FOR BCM NETHERLAND’S DE HERIKON

By: Jeanette Windle with Erik Bolhuis When his bride of one year announced she’d become a Christian and wanted to be baptized, Erik Bolhuis feared it might be the end of their marriage. Instead it proved the beginning of a faith journey that has led to Erik’s recent...

MISCOMMUNICATION LEADS TO LIFETIME OF SERVICE

By: Jeanette Windle “My involvement in BCM leadership actually began through a misunderstanding,” recently-commissioned BCM Europe regional director Richard Thompson explains. A communications lapse for which he now thanks God. If BCM Ireland celebrated its 50th...

“Past! Present! Future! What’s next for BCM Europe?”

By: Jeanette Windle What links a Star Trek officer’s uniform, a Celtic fiddle, Scottish bagpipes, and the babble of intermingled Russian, Spanish, German, Romanian, Dutch, Italian, and English (make that Irish, Scottish, British, and American, respectively!) raised in...

THE CALL TO CAMP MINISTRY CONTINUES!

By Norman Wray, Camp Sonshine Director I was eleven years old when I attended Camp Sonshine’s first annual weeklong retreat the summer of 1980. A ministry of BCM International, Camp Sonshine was situated that first summer near an active corrections facility with just...

God’s Choice for BCM Germany

By: Lisa Biegert On Sunday, July 12th, 2015, new BCM Germany director Waldemar Muks accepted the baton of leadership from retiring director Dale Sigafoos in a joyous celebration held at Bibelgemeinde Nordrhön (Bible Church of the North Rhine), BCM Germany’s church in...