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This summer, BIC U.S. World Missions welcomed Becky Owen and Stephen Badiger to their team…

BIC U.S. World Missions is excited to announce the launch of a new project to support young musicians in Thai BIC congregations. All around the world, Christians use music to glorify God, to repeat his promises, and to remind ourselves of his goodness…

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 together made the following decisions: Recommendation 1 The 2024 General Assembly adopted the General Conference Board’s decision to approve the General Assembly 2022 minutes…

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 Partnership Handbook and was closely developed with BIC Church leaders and hospital staff in Zambia and Zimbabwe…

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, are these values merely slogans…

“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 purpose of the BIC U.S…

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 develop clear values and mission unique to their assets and community needs…

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 people who have come to General Assembly and have found it very meaningful…

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 Park Street Church and at churches in Vancouver…

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 of Article II of the Articles of Faith and Doctrine (MDG…

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 hospital in its mission. In 2023…

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…