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Hope, self-worth and fun for Kosovo kids
If you grew up where there was 80 per cent unemployment, would you have hope for the future? If you grew up as a girl in a patriarchal society, would you feel...
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IF we unite against hunger
Picture two billion paper flowers spinning in the wind – one flower for each child who will die of hunger this year. Imagine thousands of people standing united in...
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Hola Timóteo!
It was just a simple press of a button on a computer in Oxfordshire, something that office workers do hundreds of times a day. But this button pressed by BMS World Mission...
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Bargain blankets help Ugandans fleeing floods
"It was like a WWI battlefield, like looking at the Somme, just miles and miles of mud,” says Gareth Shrubsole, BMS worker in Kasese. Terrible...
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"Be strong, united, cheerful and holy"
“It’s time to go, to close the letter, to leave Blackpool, to go on being lights that shine in the darkness of Philippi, to go on shining in Manchester and...
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'Punching holes in the darkness'
"This morning we're here, you and I, with God's help, through BMS World Mission, punching holes in the darkness." So said Jeff Taylor,...
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‘Reaching the world must be incarnational’
Engaging with local realities – part of BMS World Mission’s vision, and something that was embodied in the Successful Church Planting seminar held at this year...
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Japan: Remembering recovery
Remember when talk of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan was on everyone’s lips? On March 11, thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands...
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Syrians coming to Christ
It’s like being in a video game. Trying to avoid the government troops, 11 men walk across the fields from Syria to Jordan under the cover of night – but a sniper...
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Pray for Bangladesh
Hundreds have died in Bangladesh following the collapse of a nine-story building on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka on Wednesday (24 April). We have received the...
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Pizza, paint and answered prayer
Escaping the dusty, polluted streets of the Nepalese capital this Easter, eight students aged 14 to 16 from BMS World Mission supported Kathmandu International Study...
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Empowered, inspired and coming to a church near you
God has used, taught and transformed BMS World Mission Action Teamers this year. Serving around the world, in orphanages, schools, churches and communities, each...
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BMS announces banking re-tender outcome
BMS invited all four major high street banks, the Cooperative Bank, CAF Bank and other smaller banks to provide detailed tender documents for the provision of its banking...
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Hope for children with learning difficulties in Lebanon
Overlooked and marginalised – children with learning difficulties in Lebanon have often been misunderstood and side-lined. That could start to change, however...
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Justice, joy and a place to call home
Meet Phil (nine) and Paradon (seven) – two happy, smiling boys enjoying their new family home. Since they were just two or three, Phil and Paradon have lived...
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Sponsorship saving lives in rural Nepal
When Katrina Butterworth saved the life of a mother and her newborn twins in Butwal, Nepal, it taught her two things: God’s timing is perfect and there is...
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BMS leaders denied visas for North Korea
Against a backdrop of increasing tension between North and South Korea, a trip to North Korea by BMS leadership has had to be postponed. BMS General...
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New Baptist Heritage Centre officially opens
A new Baptist Heritage Centre which brings the story of BMS World Mission to life has opened - just yards from the very first meeting of the organisation more than...
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Conference for Christian thought-leaders launched
Do you ever get staid and tired in your thinking? When was the last time you saw things from a different perspective andwere stimulated by intellectual debate?...
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The PlayStation bus and the Syrian refugees
A booming sound system, comfy seats, a 32 inch TV screen and an on-board games console: welcome to what Hadath Baptist Church (HBC) hope will soon be Lebanon’s first...
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