GOOD SAMARITANS STILL NEEDED IN THE UKRAINE’S WAR ZONES
By: Lisa Biegert Ongoing conflict between Russia and the eastern European country of Ukraine has filled headlines around the world since Russia’s takeover of Crimea in February, 2014. As always, those most affected by war are the smallest of citizens. BCM missionary...BCM Camps – Summer Fun Leaves Lasting Impact
By: Lisa Biegert Going to camp is a summer staple for North Americans. Countless adults remember with fondness being finally old enough to attend a week of summer camp. Away from home for the first time. In a cabin. Making new friends. Doing crazy things parents won’t...MISS DEWEY AND THE GOSPEL PUPPETS GO TO THE FAIR!
By Jeanette Windle The last week of August, 2014, thousands of visitors streamed into the small town of Gilbert in northeast Pennsylvania to savor the delights of the annual West End County Fair. Prize-winning animals to admire. Cotton candy and fried foods galore....BCM UK—Get Real! and JaM at Barton Camp 2014
By: Jane King What do sheep, cheese, fresh air and kids have in common? BCM-UK’s Barton Camp! Located not far from the town of Cheddar in the rolling hills of Somerset County, Barton is only a short drive from England’s southwest coast across the bay from Cardiff,...Streamside Camp and Conference Center
Hiking and playing outdoors are adventures children growing up in the country take for granted. But an entire population of children grow up in urban areas where they rarely if ever get to experience the wide world of outdoors or the beauty of nature. Since its...Mill Stream Bible Camp & Retreat Centre
Mill Stream Bible Camp and Retreat Centre in Omemee, Ontario, Canada hosted seven weeks of summer fun in 2014. Two weeks were segregated—boys and girls—but the rest were co-ed and divided up by ages. Each camp week had a different theme. Among the most popular was...Mandaville Camp and Retreat Center
Bob and Sharon Emmett have been directors at Mandaville Camp and Retreat Center in the upper New York State city of Winthrop for fourteen years. Their three children grew up on camp property. Now that they are all teenagers, all three contribute camp ministry work...Corning Area Bible Club Camp
Corning Area Bible Club Camp was founded 70 years ago. For the past 22 years, the camp has rented its facilities from Penn York Camp in Ulysses, Pennsylvania. The camp runs for two weeks each summer. The camp director David Mogren was a camper himself since he was...Camp Sonshine
2014 marks the 35th anniversary of BCM’s Camp Sonshine in Honeybrook, Pennsylvania. Camp Sonshine runs for just one week during the summer, but it impacts more than 80 children during that week. Campers enjoy a variety of activities including horseback riding, mini...Camp Sankanac
The very first BCM International camp was founded in 1941 in Spring City, Pennsylvania. Today Camp Sankanac is a flourishing year-round camping and retreat complex, which includes a conference center named after BCM founder Bessie Traber. While Camp Sankanac is mostly...Bliss Summit Bible Camp
For 2014’s summer program, Bliss Summit Bible Camp in Bliss, New York, ran a medieval theme entitled “For the Kingdom”, based on Matthew 6:33 (“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”) Young people learned...Big Sky Bible Camp
The setting of Big Sky Bible Camp in Bigfork, Montana, just begs for an unforgettable camping experience. The campground is surrounded by Montana’s beautiful Rocky Mountains. A lake right on the property is available for swimming and tubing. Big Sky offers...CUBA: WIDE HORIZONS IN THE PEARL OF THE CARRIBBEAN
By: Marion Odicio Cuba (BCM World) —Cuba has been lovingly termed the “Pearl of the Caribbean”. Now I know why! I’d never been to this often forgotten—and certainly surprising—country in the northwestern part of the Caribbean. But Latin America has always had a...MULTIPLYING “BREAD AND FISHES” FOR BOLIVIA’S FLOOD VICTIMS
By: Jeanette Windle with Freddy Camacho Cochabamba, Bolivia (BCM World)—It was raining again as it had been—not for days, but months. Already flooding rivers had devastated the potato crop that was a mainstay against starvation for this high mountain community in the...FOOTSTEPS OF FAITH BECOMES A “FISHING POLE” FOR ROMANIA’S CHRISTIANS
By: Lisa Biegert “We have learned more from you through the years than from any other group. We are so thankful that you gave us a ‘fishing pole.’ Others gave us many things, but they didn’t encourage us to prepare and to do things ourselves.” “Many...
Unexpected Travelers:
When a Short-Term Missions Team Unraveled,
God Made a Way
By: Erika A. Bruckner Recife, Brazil (BCM World)—Joe Dukes, VP of Personnel for BCM International, had traveled to Brazil six times. He had no immediate plans for a seventh trip. But God did. A full team from BCM was scheduled to go to Brazil to lead a camp ministry...
When a Short-Term Missions Team Unraveled,
God Made a Way
WOMEN REACHING WOMEN AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
By: Jeanette Windle with Shila Vaidhya Kathmandu, Nepal (BCM World)—Why is Shila Vaidhya, BCM missionary in Nepal, so passionate about ministry to women who are hurting, down-trodden, widowed, abandoned in old age or left to raise children without shelter, food, basic...A ROYAL CELEBRATION FOR BCM PHILIPPINES
By: Lisa Biegert On the island of Mindanao, Philippines, just below the inactive volcano Mt. Matatum amidst tropical fruit trees and pineapple fields, lies BCM’s Camp Española. Over Easter weekend, April 22-25, 2014, multi-colored traditional Mindanao and Manobo...CANDIDATE ORIENTATION: A BLESSING FOR THE FUTURE
By: Lisa Biegert Pennsylvania, USA (BCM World)—Candidate orientation for new BCM North American missionaries was held the first week of January, 2014, at BCM’s Traber Center in Spring City, Pennsylvania. Classes were taught by Vice President Joe Dukes, International...PRAYING FOR ‘LA VICTOIRE’ IN TOULOUSE
By Elizabeth Anneville with Jeanette Windle France (BCM World) —Four year old Claire was still too young to attend BCM children’s Summer Camp in Toulouse, France. But BCM France directors Chuck and Cathy Powers yielded to her pleas to accompany her older brother....CAMPING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
By Shantal Artieda, BCM Peru Lima, Peru (BCM World)—The last day of camp season had arrived at BCM Peru’s campground in Pachacámac, a half hour away from Peru’s capital city, Lima. Even from a distance could be heard the resounding chant of an entire auditorium full...JUST TELLING STORIES
By: Lisa Biegert Nairobi, Kenya (BCM World)—Pulling out a teacher’s manual or flipping open a laptop to start up a PowerPoint presentation are common practices these days for teaching a Bible class. But what does one do in a country like Kenya where such resources are...“PLEASE COME BACK AGAIN, AND WE ARE WAITING!”
By Jeanette Windle with Dr. Djawotho Kisa and Mrs. Pat Govender Democratic Republic of Congo (BCM World) — When BCM missionaries Dr. Djawotho Kisa and Mrs. Pat Govender stepped from an MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) prop plane onto the grass airstrip of Aungba in...Rev. Dr. Vararuchi Franz Dalavai — 1940-2014:
An “Unlikely Moses”
By Chris Martin and Jeanette Windle Hyderabad, India (BCM World) — “I prayed like Moses prayed. I said ‘Lord, why did you give me all this? Leave me alone!’” When Chris Martin received word that Rev. Dr. Vararuchi Dalavai had passed into the presence of his heavenly...
An “Unlikely Moses”
