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Pursuing Mission as a Community
The Missionary Development Community (MDC) is a new component of the Missionary Development Program (MDP) which helps people discern if God is calling them to cross-cultural service and prepares BIC U.S. World Missions global workers for long-term service. Until recently, the MDP was limited to a lot of reading and book knowledge and not as much interactive and experiential training…
Profiles
Help in Crisis – Caring for Refugees
Kevin and Barb Kelley have spent a lifetime serving people in crisis, him as a prison chaplain and her as a nurse practitioner. Following retirement, they sensed God placing a new passion in their hearts: refugee care and ministry. The Lord led them to Athens…
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Under the Kansas Sun
On a hot July morning in Kansas in 2022, nearly 80 men and women gathered under a blue- and white-striped tent to pray, reflect, and celebrate the work of World Missions at the former site of Bethel BIC. Large stone steps are all that remain of the church building…
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The Cost of a Smile
This Sunday, I saw Charity in church. Charity is an eight-year-old girl born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. I first met her two years ago when she was six. Her cleft palate and cleft lip had been repaired when she was an infant…
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Far From Home
Many people in today’s world are far from home, and the numbers can be striking. An estimated 89.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes last year (UNHCR). Immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up 26% of the U.S…
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Funds Sent to Macha Hospital to Purchase Supplies and Update Facilities
Over the past two years, Macha Mission Hospital in Zambia has faced its share of challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic, supply chain issues, and aging facilities all contributed to stretching the hospital and its staff. But God is good, and Macha Hospital has continued to provide quality healthcare to its community…
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$65,089 Released from Global Compassion Fund in Response to Food Crisis and Violence in Mozambique
Brethren in Christ U.S. has released $65,089 from the Global Compassion Fund to provide relief for families in Northern Mozambique who are currently experiencing a growing food crisis which has been exacerbated by insurgent-led violence. For the past four years, a militant group has been growing more active in the Cabo Delgado region of Northern Mozambique…
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BIC U.S. World Missions Deploys Medical Missionaries Mark and Maggie Roth
In partnership with U.S. congregations and individuals, we celebrate that Mark and Maggie Roth deploy to Zambia, November 5, 2019, for a three-year missionary term. Thank you for walking alongside the Roths through your prayers and financial support…
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Engaging Islam, On Its Own Terms
Apologetics course through Jay Smith’s veins. His theological lineage includes Francis Schaeffer. The theologian discipled Jay’s missionary parents, who, in turn, discipled Ravi Zacharias, the globally renowned, Indian-born Christian apologist. But rhetoric, he argues, is also in the DNA of India…
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Update: Cyclone Idai Relief in Mozambique, Malawi
Thank you for your prayers and financial support for our brothers and sisters suffering from the devastation of Cyclone Idai. The cyclone — which struck Southeast Africa in March — is the second most calamitous storm in that region on record…