BIC U.S. World Missions Archives - Brethren in Christ U.S.

New Project Supports Holistic Training for Amazonian Youth

New Project Supports Holistic Training for Amazonian Youth

This week, BIC U.S. World Missions launched a new project in their Partnership Handbook that supports the work of the Nanki Tsakari Comprehensive Training Center in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Indigenous youth in this area are often sent to live… Read On

Published October 25, 2024

World Missions Launches Project to Care for Refugees and International Students

World Missions Launches Project to Care for Refugees and International Students

El Roi: Caring for People Away from Home, a new special project from BIC U.S. World Missions, aims to serve families and individuals who by choice or by force have left their homeland. The project name, El Roi (which in Hebrew means “the God who… Read On

Published October 10, 2024

New Collaborative Medical Project Aims to Fill Health Care Gaps in Zimbabwe

New Collaborative Medical Project Aims to Fill Health Care Gaps in Zimbabwe

A new project – Medical Collaboration: Zambia and Zimbabwe – hopes to relieve the pains of staffing shortages at Mtshabezi Mission Hospital and Phumula Mission Hospital in rural Zimbabwe. The project is the most recent addition to BIC U.S.’s… Read On

Published July 8, 2024

A Tale of Two Building Projects

A Tale of Two Building Projects

Amid their own church building project, Revolution Church in Salina, Kansas, chose to support another congregation’s building project. When I asked Pastor Jeff Piepho what prompted Revolution to do such a project, he shared: We were doing a… Read On

Published June 10, 2024

Pursuing Mission as a Community

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… Read On

Published December 18, 2023

Help in Crisis – Caring for Refugees

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… Read On

Published June 20, 2023

Under the Kansas Sun

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… Read On

Published May 11, 2023

The Cost of a Smile

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, but I noticed… Read On

Published February 15, 2023

Far From Home

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… Read On

Published December 15, 2022