BCM International

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From Peru to the Poconos

By Marion and Carlos Odicio with Jeanette Windle “When I came to this country, I brought all my saints [statuettes of various saints believed to answer prayer] with me in my suitcase,” shares one attendee of a Spanish-language Bible study taught by Carlos and Marion...

“Disciple or Die!”

By: Gerlyn de Jesus Director, BCM Philippines The second Asia Pacific Youth Congress (APYC2), held in Bali, Indonesia, from October 17-20, 2016, brought together youth leaders, mentors, and children’s ministry directors from twenty different nations across Asia and...

BCM Canada—75 Years of Reaching Children and Serving the Church

By: Lauri Barrette Each country served by BCM International faces its own unique challenges. Some countries have artillery pointing at their borders. Some missionaries face incarceration and great persecution for sharing their faith. In Canada, where BCM recently...

Sharing, Loving, and Caring in Cameroon

By: Lisa Biegert Much of the West Indies island chain’s population reached the Caribbean during the late 17th and 18th centuries on slave ships from West Africa, destined for labor in tobacco and sugar plantations. So how does a West Indies pastor’s wife end up back...

Bringing Home the Good News

By Lisa Biegert with Josphat and Emily Yego A two-acre plot in the outskirts of Kapsabet, a town in western Kenya, holds just two lonely buildings, one constructed of wood and iron sheets, the other just wood. These small buildings stand vacant all week until Sunday...

Bullets Still Can’t Stop God’s Word in Inner Philly

A BCM World article last summer shared the exciting summer Bible club outreach in some of Philadelphia’s more difficult neighborhoods (see Neither Rain nor Heat nor Flying Bullets, BCM World, Fall, 2015). A recent update from BCM missionary Lorraine Stirneman, who...