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Field 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, including the destruction of Milestone Church (see God’s Church Still...

NEW LIFE FOR “QUIRUMAS” IN PERU’S AMAZON RAINFOREST

By: Shantal Artieda 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 clubs followed, then camps for children and...

“NEITHER RAIN NOR HEAT . . . NOR FLYING BULLETS!”

By: Jeanette Windle with Lorraine Stirneman 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 listened avidly, eager...

PREACHING A RISEN SAVIOR EVEN IN THE MIDST OF BULLETS

By: Jeanette Windle 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 pre-class prayer meetings. A half-hour later,...

Setting Captives Free at BCM’s Camp Sankanac

By Sierra Guenst 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 themselves, the Massey family went on to risk...

FROM AN EMAIL TO GABON’S CHILDREN

By: Jeanette Windle with Olga Zaitseva and Pat Black It started with an email. 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...