MISCOMMUNICATION LEADS TO LIFETIME OF SERVICE
“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...
View ArticleNEW 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...
View ArticleSINGAPORE 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...
View ArticleMEDICAL MISSION HEALS SOULS AND BODIES IN BRAZIL’S DESOLATE OUTBACK
By: Lisa Biegert Five hours into an eight hour trip to the desert bush area of Sertão in northwestern Brazil, the van holding a team of BCM Brazil missionaries and American medical personnel broke...
View ArticleNATIONAL 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...
View ArticleFire Loss in Muntinlupa City Becomes Eternal Gain
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...
View ArticleCOMING HOME TO AFRICA’S HEARTLAND
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)...
View ArticleBCM Ukraine: Speaking Unchanging Truth to an Ever-Changing Nation
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...
View ArticleA BORDER CROSSING FOR BCM PERU
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,...
View Article“Here I Am, Send Me—to Hungary?”
“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...
View ArticleChildren’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...
View ArticleYouth 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...
View ArticleCamping – 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...
View ArticleChaplain 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...
View ArticleRefugees – 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....
View ArticleChurch 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...
View ArticleKiev-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,...
View ArticleSharing “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...
View ArticleNot Looking Back in Persecution-Torn North India
By Jeanette Windle with Paul Padmaker, Executive Director BCM India In October, 2015, a fundamentalist Hindu mob attacked a BCM church in Begaipeda village in northern India’s Jharkhand State. The...
View ArticleNo Place to Lay Their Head
Report from Meashed Liyanage, BCM Sri Lanka Director Sri Lanka’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami started unexpectedly when Tropical Storm Roanu arrived May 15-16, 2016, weeks ahead of the normal...
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