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Business Wrap-Up: General Assembly 2024

Business Wrap-Up: General Assembly 2024

As the Brethren in Christ U.S family, we value making decisions together. This year, delegates representing our collective family of congregations gathered in Sharonville, Ohio, July 12-15 to form our General Assembly. This 2024 General Assembly… Read On

Published July 25, 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

New Book Offers Fresh Perspectives on BIC Core Values

New Book Offers Fresh Perspectives on BIC Core Values

A worldwide pandemic, dynamic social shifts, the ongoing decline of the Western church, vast advances in technology – much has changed in the twenty years since Brethren in Christ U.S. first identified its ten core values. Considering such shifts… Read On

Published May 22, 2024

BIC U.S. Blog Receives Recognition in Christian Journalism

BIC U.S. Blog Receives Recognition in Christian Journalism

“Brethren in Christ communications exist to declare our vision, promote our mission, teach our values, encourage our dialogue, and strengthen our bonds of trust.” This statement, adopted by Leadership Council in July 1998, still encapsulates the… Read On

Published May 2, 2024

21 Congregations Join Program Assessing Church Health and Community Engagement

21 Congregations Join Program Assessing Church Health and Community Engagement

We are thrilled to announce the members in Cohort A of the Thriving Congregations Initiative. Over the next three years, twenty-one congregations from four conferences (listed below) will address the changing context of congregational life and… Read On

Published April 4, 2024

General Assembly ’24 Nursery, Children, and Youth Ministry Leaders Announced

General Assembly ’24 Nursery, Children, and Youth Ministry Leaders Announced

General Assembly 2024 (July 12-15 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a family event, where all ages are welcome. “I encourage you to bring your family,” says Bishop Lynn Thrush of the Great Lakes Conference. “I know many stories of young… Read On

Published April 2, 2024

Walter Kim to be Keynote Speaker at General Assembly 2024

Walter Kim to be Keynote Speaker at General Assembly 2024

We are thrilled to welcome a slate of gifted speakers to General Assembly 2024, including our keynote speaker, Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Walter Kim previously served as a pastor at Boston’s historic… Read On

Published March 7, 2024

Leadership Council Endorses Wesleyan Paper on Homosexuality

Brethren in Christ U.S. believes that God’s design for sexual intimacy is limited to marriage between a man and a woman. This position is clearly stated in our Manual of Doctrine and Government (MDG): first in the Relationships in Creation section… Read On

Published March 7, 2024

Over $130,000 Distributed for Macha Hospital

Over $130,000 Distributed for Macha Hospital

Nearly seventy years after its founding in 1957, Macha Mission Hospital in Zambia continues to provide life-changing medicine in the name of Jesus. Through the Partnership Handbook, individuals and congregations in the U.S. financially support the… Read On

Published February 6, 2024