DAVE AND LOIS HAAS: PASSING ON THE BATON OF FAITHFUL FOOTSTEPS
Retire? The Haases? Is that even conceivable? After fifty-six years of faithful service across numerous spheres of BCM leadership and ministry, it took an engraved invitation to their retirement...
View ArticleA NEW HOME FOR MYANMAR’S LOST CHILDREN
By his eighth birthday, Sai Ja Aung had lost everything that means security to a child. Sai Ja Aung was Kachin, one of many tribal minorities in Myanmar (once called Burma) involved in what has been...
View ArticlePASSING THE BATON
In mid-October, 2014, twenty-seven children’s ministry leaders from eleven nations converged on Sanctuary House in Pamunugama, Sri Lanka, for Mobilise Asia 2014, a week of visioning, equipping and...
View ArticleMAN’S ULTIMATUM BECOMES GOD’S OPPORTUNITY IN SRI LANKA
“The choice is simple,” a board member reiterated. “If you will take this on, we will give you all our support. If not, we will dissolve as an organization, and BCM ministry in Sri Lanka will be closed...
View ArticleMAN’S ULTIMATUM BECOME GOD’S OPPORTUNITY IN SRI LANKA PART TWO
“I will take on leadership of BCM in Sri Lanka,” Rev. Susiri Liyanage pledged (see Part One in BCM World, Winter 2014 Issue). “But not just to start Bible clubs in existing churches. They can run their...
View ArticleGROWING UP BCM LANKA
Growing up as son of a well-known Christian pastor was not always easy. But one thing I always appreciated was how my father, Rev. Susiri Liyanage, would take us with him to visit churches and preach...
View ArticleA Monument of Praise: God Is Not Finished With BCM Italy
Had the time come to shut down BCM ministry in Italy? After a half-century of ministry, founders and directors of BCM Italy Jim and Fran Lines were well past retirement age, and no new fulltime BCM...
View ArticleDISAPPOINTMENT BRINGS BLESSING IN BANGLADESH
The phone conversation just days before the National Children’s Workers Conference in Bangladesh was not what BCM missionary Stan Tyson was hoping to hear. “Because of the hartel [a political strike...
View ArticleGOD’S CHURCH STILL STANDS IN EARTHQUAKE-SHAKEN NEPAL
“It was Saturday, April 25th, and our believers were all gathered in church for the 11 a.m. worship service,” describes Rev. Robbin Vaidhya, BCM Nepal director and pastor of Milestone Church in...
View ArticleORDINARY PEOPLE CALLED TO SERVE EXTRAORDINARILY
More than two hundred BCM India missionaries and pastors gathered together November 13-16, 2014, at Ebenezer Prayer Centre, a BCM camp and retreat complex in Kareemguda Village, in the suburbs of...
View ArticleFROM AN EMAIL TO GABON’S CHILDREN
BCM missionaries and ISMT Master Trainers Olga Zaitseva from Russia and Pat Black from the USA had conducted teacher training courses in Africa before. They’d taught together in Nigeria where more than...
View ArticleSetting Captives Free at BCM’s Camp Sankanac
The Civil War had not yet begun when a family of escaped slaves moved into a stone farmstead in Spring City, Pennsylvania, donated to them by fellow abolitionists, the Bertolets. After escaping slavery...
View ArticlePREACHING A RISEN SAVIOR EVEN IN THE MIDST OF BULLETS
The shooting began before dawn on April 2, 2015. Both Christian and Muslim students at Garissa University in eastern Kenya about 200 kilometers north of the Somali border had risen by 5a.m. to attend...
View Article“NEITHER RAIN NOR HEAT . . . NOR FLYING BULLETS!”
The Friday afternoon offered a perfect ending to a five-day open-air Bible club. No summer downpour had necessitated scattering to shelter. As teenage volunteers taught the final Bible story, children...
View ArticleNEW LIFE FOR “QUIRUMAS” IN PERU’S AMAZON RAINFOREST
BCM Peru first expanded its ministry to the city of Iquitos in 2005, reaching children through an evangelistic outreach known as Pennies for Peru. Training for children’s ministry leadership and Bible...
View ArticleField Briefs: Because You Prayed
NEPAL UPDATE: Our last BCM World issue shared the 7.8 Richter scale earthquake that struck Nepal’s Kathmandu region Saturday, April 25, 2015, and its devastating impact on BCM ministry in Nepal,...
View ArticleGod is not Dead in Bourges, France
“God is dead,” Madam Louise repeated insistently. The French woman who’d paused on a park bench to answer a few survey questions was not being obnoxious nor difficult. She was simply reiterating her...
View ArticleGod’s Choice for BCM Germany
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...
View ArticleTHE CALL TO CAMP MINISTRY CONTINUES!
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...
View Article“Past! Present! Future! What’s next for BCM Europe?”
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,...
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