Biblically Based, Christ Centered, Caring Community in Annapolis, MD
Ever wonder where God is in the midst of difficulty and struggle? He often works through His church to comfort, heal, and make provision. BRCC supports missions groups that carry the truth and light of Christ and His gospel in our own community and around the world. These groups also teach, heal, and meet material needs. We are blessed to be able to give 14.5¢ out of every dollar we receive from regular offerings and 100% of all Love offerings to missions.
Every Monday evening, a small group from BRCC hold a bible study at Annapolis’ Jennifer Road detention center. It’s a chance to share Christ with men who desperately need Him.
BRCC supports the ministry of Chase Wood. Chase Wood graduated from Washington Bible College (WBC) in Lanham, MD with a BA in Christian Counseling. While attending WBC, Chase worked with the Senior Chaplain of Good News Jail & Prison Ministry at the Jennifer Road Detention Center. Chase became a full-time Chaplain at the Detention Center in 1999. Chase lives in Deale, MD, with his wife Patricia.
BRCC supports the work of Mike and Marsha Slone who facilitate two group meetings of 40-60 Midshipmen for worship, community, and Bible teaching about Christian basics in doctrine, living, and ministering. Throughout the week, Michael and Marsha meet with individual Midshipmen for personalized discipleship training. In addition, there are weekend retreats away from the Yard and various events in their home.
Bombay Teen Challenge helps women and children involved in the sex trade. It has a shelter in the red-light district of Bombay (Mumbai) that provides food, shelter and educational assistance for the children of commercial sex workers. The medical facility known as The Village at Ashagram will be located about two hours outside of Bombay (Mumbai). It will provide medication and care to children once involved in the sex trade. This is much needed because 85 percent of prostitutes and sex slaves rescued from the streets carry the AIDS virus.
For the safety of our missionary, we are unable to provide details concerning their identification or specific work they are currently involved in. We ask that you continue to pray for them.
Regin and Heidi are church planting missionaries in the poorest region of Italy, which has an evangelical Christian presence in only 4 of the 136 communities. They are a Danish/Danish-American couple who serve with Gospel Literature Outreach, a UK-based missions agency. They plant churches by first getting involved in their community by teaching English, kid’s clubs, sewing clubs for the elderly, a clothing center, and much more. With the refugee crisis of recent years, their church has also had the privilege of getting involved in the lives of numerous refugees in their small towns.
Himalayan Inland Mission (HIM) is a small group of dedicated Christians in the Himalayan Mountains of India. Spreading the Gospel to over 100 villages, Reverend Swami Sunder Singh and his co-workers are laboring to provide love and comfort to the people of India. Uttaranchal in India where HIM is located is one of the last great Gospel frontiers, having one of the smallest percentage of Christians in the entire world.
Founders of Life Savers Ministries International and Vida Internacional, Lee and Carol work on the mission field in Mexico where they are ministering to marginal children and their families in the Bahia de Banderas area. The mission of this part of their ministry is “Feeding Children Body, Soul & Spirit”, with the purpose of building bridges of love over which they can share the Gospel. They are currently creating a website from which “Vida Internacional” can be downloaded for free to train Spanish speaking people around the world. This is an integrated and balanced ministry approach of compassion and leadership development, meeting basic needs & providing discipleship training.
For the safety of our missionary we are unable to provide details concerning their identification or specific work they are currently involved in. We ask that you continue to pray for them.
Larry and Di have served in Papua, Indonesia for 23 years supporting the leadership of the Evangelical Church of Indonesia. Larry works with media and communications for the denomination, training and mentoring Indonesians, and Di, who is a doctor, works on health and community development projects with the national staff. They are also “mom and dad” missionaries to the large community of ex-pats who live and work in Papua.
Tim is a Church Historian who teaches at a seminary for pastors and local church leaders at Kijabe, Kenya. Maureen is a General Surgeon, who works to provide medical care and to train Kenyans in medical care and procedures. They teach and do medical ministry in Kijabe, Kenya.
Roger and Marilyn Reeck have served the Lord with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 45 years. Roger and Marilyn are based in Honduras where they worked to translate the Scripture into the Garifuna language. They now serve as consultants to ensure the best possible translation of God’s Word in places like Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Venezuela, Honduras, Brazil, and Colombia.
The Evangelical Church in Croatia, with fifty congregations in forty-one communities, has emerged from the Balkan wars of the 1990s as the largest evangelical movement in newly independent Croatia. The focus of their ministry is planting churches in communities with no Gospel witness, but the churches also sponsor camps for all ages which both evangelize and provide training and encouragement for believers. A new initiative is a retirement home for aging pastors and wives.
Even though Croatia is perhaps the best-evangelized of all the parts of the former Yugoslavia, Croatians remain an unreached people group, with less than 0.1% of them being evangelical Christians. Church planters typically live by faith with no guarantee of support in a country with over 30% unemployment.
Touch of Christ Ministries is a Christ-Centered outreach ministry serving the persecuted church and reaching out to Muslims in the Middle East and the USA. They use covert Evangelic outreaches, serve persecuted former Muslims, and inform the Western church about the cruelties of Islam. Touch of Christ was founded in 1990. The founders were born to fundamentalist Muslim families and miraculously converted to Christianity in the early eighties when they were forced to flee their homeland. The goal of the ministry is seeing Muslims embrace the Lordship of Jesus Christ and equip them to be bold witnesses of His saving, healing power. The ministry also oversees Bible operations.