STEM Ministries, a nationally-recognized leader in Christian short-term missions, and Bethany International, a mission training and sending agency for career missionaries, are joining their respective short-term mission and career mission competencies beginning September 1, 2008 to expand the mobilization of short-term and career missionaries. STEM brings 24 years of recruiting, training, and sending thousands of [...]
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Paris Reidhead (1919–1992) was a Christian missionary, teacher, writer, and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations. In 1945 he took an assignment with the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), surveying and analyzing indigenous languages in preparation for evangelistic and educational efforts near the Sudan-Ethiopian border. Reidhead’s experiences in the Sudan deeply impacted the core values that would guide his life.
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Ghana
Jeff reported, “Your prayers worked! A couple weeks ago I asked you to pray because only three people had registered for the “Awaken to the World” missions-awareness course here in Ghana. The program started yesterday, and the number of registrants had reached 194! That’s a record for the first day. Thank you.”
Brazil
Pat, who has served [...]
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There is a growing emphasis on Africans reaching Africans leading to further opportunities for Bethany’s GO100 team to come alongside new partners and encourage them in their vision to reach the least-reached peoples of East Africa.
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BCOM is now the endorsed second-year track for the Teen Mania Honor Academy students who feel called to foreign missions. Teen Mania’s Honor Academy opened its first satellite campus in January on the Bethany campus in Minneapolis. They are now accepting students for their 2007 school year. If you would like to know more about the Teen Mania Honor Academy program, call 1-800-863-6306.
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We are excited indeed! On February 17, Paul Strand left for Jos, Nigeria to teach the opening course in the brand new “Training of Trainers” school of NEMA (Nigerian Evangelical Missions Association), which has begun under the auspices of Bethany’s GO100 (Global Outfitting 100) vision. For more than three years, Paul has been praying, planning [...]
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by George Foster
During my first trip to East Timor, I heard a story that blessed and encouraged me and blesses nearly everyone who hears it. Two of Bethany’s early missionaries, Herb and Ruth Billman, were always eager to be led by the Holy Spirit. They studied Portuguese and went to Guinea-Bissau. In 1962 they felt [...]
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After more than seven years of effective missions partnership between Kenya?s Finish The Task, the Africa Center for Mission and Bethany, we are celebrating the official inauguration of the newest regional Hub in Nairobi, Kenya. This Hub will continue to focus on training Kenyan churches to effectively send and care for missionaries, and will work [...]
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