“Mullartown Live”

Worship Group By: Gemma Hill, Director Mullartown House Across Northern Ireland, all outreach events and camps have been canceled due to COVID-19 through this summer. At BCM’s camp and retreat center here, Mullartown House, we already had five hundred kids booked into...

Life for a New Season in Sri Lanka

Distributing relief aid  By: Meashed Liyanage, BCM Sri Lanka Country Director with Jeanette Windle The last several months of COVID-19 lockdown have been a battle for survival and a time of mounting fear for many in Sri Lanka. With churches unable to meet or...

God’s Ambassadors to COVID Sufferers

Hungry children being fed By: Ratovohery Jean Aimé, Country Director, BCM Madagascar With just two deaths and about six hundred cases of COVID-19 in Madagascar by the end of May 2020, the effects of quarantine have been far worse for most of the population than the...

BCM Responds to COVID-19

By: Lisa Biegert In less than six months, the word “coronavirus” went from something no one had heard of to all everyone talks about. While the world’s focus has been on COVID deaths, unemployment rates, and how to conduct distance learning for school-age children,...

Go for It!

When one BCM missionary, an ISMT trainer in Papua, Indonesia, returned to her homeland, the United States, for furlough in 2013, she discovered MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). These are free online courses offered by universities such as Stanford, MIT, and...

Amidst COVID

Mother’s day worship service kid’s song By: Gerlyn de Jesus, National Director, BCM Philippines News concerning the outbreak of coronavirus popularly known as COVID-19 went viral during the early months of this year. Little did we here in the Philippines...

BCM Canada in COVID-19 Times

BCM Canada – Zoom conference call By: Lauri Barrette When Canada’s government shut down all “non-essential services” and mandated physical distancing due to COVID-19, BCM Canada was presented with an interesting challenge. How to move forward when virtually...

Women Breaking Free in Durban, South Africa

Durban women’s camp session By: Lisa Biegert In South Africa, August is hailed as Women’s Month. BCM missionaries and volunteers used this opportunity to host the first South African BCM women’s camp August 23-25, 2019, at Pennington Camp James on the south...

Reaching a Unique Community in Suriname

International Academy of Suriname (IAS) campus By: Linda Smit For decades and across five continents, BCM has been committed to reaching children for Christ through a wide spectrum of ministry—Bible clubs, camps, school release classes, VBS, puppet ministry, and more....

Modeling Jesus with a Fat Lip

Streamside Camp game time   By: Craig Vincent, Director Camp Streamside BCM’s Streamside Camp & Conference Center recently finished its 2019 summer season with almost three hundred campers over a period of five weeks. Camp is usually filled with joy, smiling...

Taking the Lead

Ephraim Ngendakuriyo leads training By: Jeanette Windle With  half of Africa’s population under the age of fifteen, reaching and discipling the next generation who are the future of both Africa and the African church cannot be done Lone Ranger-style. Multiplication...

Bringing the Church to Durban’s Hospitals

By: Lisa Biegert Lying in a South African hospital bed in 2014 recovering from a serious fall, BCM missionary Cobie Viljoen looked up to find himself surrounded by hospital staff working to keep him alive. As a youth, God had placed a missionary calling on his life....

Standing Firm in Nepal

New church property – Nepal By: Jeanette Windle Four-and-a-half years have passed since Kathmandu’s historic earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale destroyed BCM Nepal’s Milestone Church facility along with upwards of six hundred thousand buildings across Nepal...

Making a Difference Summer 2019

Water sports at Camp Sonshine BCM International reaches approximately 35,000 children in camping, mostly in the summer months. But there are other BCM summer children’s ministry outreaches happening, including backyard and sidewalk Bible clubs, Vacation Bible School,...

Nobody Showed Me How!

Sport Ministry with Dillon Abbot Contributed by Orementa Murphy, BCM West Indies  For Orementa Murphy, BCM missionary in the island of Antigua, West Indies, reaching children with the Gospel can take her far afield from the Caribbean (see Sharing, Loving, and Caring...

Thinking Big in East London, South Africa

Plenary session – East London CMC By: Pat Govender and Esther Zimmerman with Jeanette Windle  “2019 marks ten years since my father and I first visited South Africa to launch BCM children’s ministry with Africa’s first Train the Trainer,” shares Esther...

Bringing a New Destiny to House of Fates

Family Outreach with HoF at Elim-Devotional Message By: Jeanette Windle with Damaris Grauer and Birgit Karsch  Sorsok Háza translates literally from Hungarian to English as “House of Fates.” The word “Sorsok” is used in reference to social outcasts whose “fate” or...

A Bumper Harvest in Chiapas, Mexico

Vacation Bible School group By: Jeanette Windle with Manuel, Lidia, and Mayna Dominguez  On the border with Guatemala, the Mexican state of Chiapas was once best known for Zapatista guerrillas, drug trafficking, and as a refugee crossing from Central America. Today it...

BCM Bolivia Appoints New National Director

Practicing during evangelism class By: Jeanette Windle with Roger Espinoza Roger Espinoza was seven years old—and hungry—as he listened to his Sunday school teacher Wilma explaining the significance of each color in the Wordless Book. The date was June 23, 1974, and...

Mobilize Comes to Africa

Group project – Mobilize Africa By: Lisa Biegert BCM International’s children’s ministry training program has three different levels. In Step with the Master Teacher (ISMT) trains children’s ministry volunteers how to teach children. Train the Trainer (TTT)...

Partnering with Awana in Bolivia

Bolivia AWANA regional leaders with Odicios and Espinozas By: Shantal Artieda BCM International has a long-standing relationship with Awana Ministries, including partnering together to create our Sharing Christ with Kids training curriculum. Awana Ministries has a...

Still Giving Beauty for Ashes

Fiona being baptized By: Lauri Barrette When my husband Daniel and I were involved in a devastating car accident in 1984 just four-and-a-half months after we were married, God’s comforting presence was palpable (see Split Second Tragedy Becomes God’s Glorious...

A Spark Lit in Guyana

ISMT Training – Georgetown By Lisa Biegert The first ISMT spark was lit in the Caribbean country of Guyana in April 2018 when BCM’s children’s ministry training program was introduced to hundreds of its church leadership (see Celebrating Easter with God’s People...

Never Too Old to Reach Kids

Lenore leading club By: Pam Rowntree, BCM Canada  A ninety-two-year-old senior, Francie lives in a small southern Ontario town where there was no Bible ministry to children. She had taught Bible club many years ago and was familiar with BCM and its teaching materials....

Shining for Jesus in Northwestern Myanmar

BCM Myanmar campers – Zomi people By: Jeanette Windle with Dr. Jacob Mung, BCM Myanmar Director One hundred-fifty-eight children ages eight to fourteen gathered in the Zomi village of New Thalmual in northwestern Myanmar for five fun-filled days of year-end Bible camp...