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Dear friends, Twenty-three years ago, Doug and Barb Miller moved their young family to Malawi to serve among the Yawo people, a group that has historically been hard to reach with the Gospel. Through the Miller’s ministry of prayer, chronological Bible teaching…

It all started with an email to Donald and Karen Vundhla: there is an Administrative Coordinator role in southern Africa and we think you would be a great fit. The Vundhlas, preparing to enter their retirement years, were hesitant. “His first thought – and probably mine too – was…

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…

In Central Kansas, the name Bathurst is synonymous with excellence in farming. Estol Bathurst hails from a farming dynasty, his great-grandfather having arrived in Abilene, Kansas, in the late 1800s to establish a general store, partially supplying it through farming his own land…

Each week for almost 20 years, Grace Holland has encouraged the BIC community in prayer. As author of two prayer publications influencing the life of the denomination — the Prayer Focus and the Cutting Edge — Grace…

In partnership with U.S. congregations and individuals, we celebrate that Tony and Veronica Beers, along with their daughters Lilliana and Natasha, deployed to Zambia, July 18, 2018, for a three-year term. Thank you for walking alongside the Beers through your prayers and financial support…

On behalf of the BIC U.S. family, we want to express our deepest gratitude for John Hawbaker’s 10 years of serving as an administrator in BIC U.S. World Missions, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. This May 31, John — who also led as a bishop…

We celebrate P. and H.R.* having moved from Wisconsin in December 2017 to begin providing hospitality and friendship to the international community of Lexington, Kentucky. Offering homestays for international students attending area colleges, the R.’s are also helping recruit other loving families to do the same…

On behalf of the BIC U.S. family, we want to express our deepest gratitude for Dr. John and Esther Spurrier’s nearly three decades of faithful service overseas. This December, John and Esther will be retiring from full-time medical missions at Macha Mission Hospital in Zambia…

As someone with deeply held convictions on peace, Ben Stoner registered as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War — applying for voluntary service among the Navajo people. Upon arriving at the Navajo Brethren in Christ Mission in New Mexico, Ben and Eunice (who were newly married) planned to stay two years…