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Celebrating Women in Ministry Leadership

Culture & Perspectives + Impact

Celebrating Women in Ministry Leadership

At 10 years old, I found myself in a small, crowded living room in Northern Ireland — the gathering place of the Bible club of a growing church plant. Whether or not a formal preacher, the woman leading taught Scripture. And at the end of the… Read On

Published August 25, 2017

Missionary Pioneering Ministry into Her 10th Decade

Missionary Pioneering Ministry into Her 10th Decade

On May 20, 2017, BIC U.S. missionary Mim Stern celebrated her 90th birthday. Serving cross-culturally for more than 60 years, Mim continues doing incarnational ministry, ministering to — and living among — international students in Philadelphia… Read On

Published June 20, 2017

Meet Silk W.

Meet Silk W.

In America, more than 70 percent of the population identify as Christian. In Thailand, however, less than 1 percent make the same claim. And it’s into this context that Silk W. has chosen to dedicate her life and ministry. Since 2009, Silk has… Read On

Published October 22, 2016

Bridge Builders: Tracie Hunter

Culture & Perspectives

Bridge Builders: Tracie Hunter

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Tracie Hunter shares her insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring her community closer together. Having ministered for nearly 20 years in… Read On

Published August 18, 2016

Q&A: Kate Vosburg

Q&A: Kate Vosburg

As a believer with a traditional view of marriage, what led you to LGBTQ ministry? About five years ago, one of our student leaders was hosting an event and two presidents of LGBTQ clubs happened upon it. This student was chatting with them and… Read On

Published November 11, 2015

Rooted and Thriving

Rooted and Thriving

I grew up in the beautiful Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, and now I live in urban Philadelphia. As the daughter of a park ranger, my childhood playground was a 2,000-acre landscape of lakes, streams, forest, and fields that inspired me to… Read On

Published August 4, 2015

Documenting the Undocumented

Documenting the Undocumented

My mother put me in piano lessons when I was five years old. And though I learned sonatas and waltzes, Beethoven and Mozart, I was learning to play piano to serve the Lord. My mother has always been involved in every facet of church life, and so she… Read On

Published February 25, 2015

The Beauty in the Mess

The Beauty in the Mess

I was born in Santa Barbara, California — gorgeous, clean, sunny Santa Barbara. Eight years ago, I bought a home in Kensington, a notoriously poor and drug-ridden section of Philadelphia. For the first few years I lived here, trash would rain into… Read On

Published July 28, 2014