Created to Teach

By: Shekinah Danielle R. Dimanlig BCM Philippines ISMT Trainer “In Step with the Master Teacher is boring!” That was my first impression of ISMT. I was fifteen years old when I was invited to attend only because my mom was one of the trainers. I went because I had to,...

“If I Perish, I Perish”

By: Lisa Biegert with Stephen and Jane King “How can I not go?  Just like Queen Esther, if I live, I live, but if I perish, I perish. I must do God’s work.” So writes “Aunty Aida”, a Nigerian Christian who teaches BCM’s children’s ministry training course In Step with...

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...

CUBA: WIDE HORIZONS IN THE PEARL OF THE CARRIBBEAN

By: Marion Odicio Cuba (BCM World) —Cuba has been lovingly termed the “Pearl of the Caribbean”. Now I know why! I’d never been to this often forgotten—and certainly surprising—country in the northwestern part of the Caribbean. But Latin America has always had a...

“I JUST SAID YES!”

By: Lisa Biegert Bangladesh (BCM World) — Ask BCM missionary Stan Tyson how he got involved with Bangladesh. His answer: “I just said ‘yes’ when God opened the door!” In early 2012, Stan Tyson and his wife Mary Ann had flown from their home base in Pennsylvania,...