Recently a missions conference was hosted at the Altonia Bible School by JUMIB, the Brazilian missionary sending agency. Paul and Elizabeth Strand were guest speakers for the conference. Paul told about his journey into missions, and also gave a message on the unfinished task. Students were greatly impacted by the news of the unfinished task. […]
Every April STEM (Short-Term Evangelical Missions) hosts a 3-day national Short-Term Mission Leaders’ Conference (STMLC) at Bethany in Minneapolis. STMLC is one of three training conferences endorsed by the “U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission. ” We’ll help train your short-term mission leaders, coordinators, and other short-term missions staff for maximum impact in […]
In 2002 a 10-year goal was embraced to establish 100 mission training schools to prepare workers to plant churches among unreached peoples by 2012. This “GO100″goal was surpassed in 2008. Then the Field5000 goal was set to send 5000 workers in the next five years (2013). Last May, during the GlobeServe Triennial Conference held here at […]
Ezekial Rain is a ministry that works to rescue, bring healing and release to victims of sex trafficking in Thailand. Bethany International plans to come alongside them by holding an awareness and fund-raising marathon in June and also working with them through teams and projects. STEM in Haiti The first of two STEM teams […]
The focus of this event is to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of people every year who are being trafficked many of them in the sex trade. You can walk or run in conjunction with the Minneapolis Marathon on Sunday, June 3, but instead do it on Saturday right here around the Bethany campus. Already […]
Training schools in South America are gearing up for the new school year to begin in March. Pray for a good number of students for each of the schools in Chile, Paraguay and Brazil (Petrolina, Curitiba and Altonia). stemintl.org Luke 10:2 “…the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore, pray earnestly to the […]
In the days to come you will hear more about ways in which you can become involved to provide long-term solutions to human trafficking. A primary way to do this is through the Anti-Human Trafficking Challenge – the Minneapolis Marathon and Half-Marathon. Now you may say, “I am not a runner.” You DON’T need to […]
Thanks to the Bethany Press team for sharing with the Bethany Family the new model of publishing that is emerging today. For the past 5 ½ years we have prayed for and wondered if there was a “new” expression of publishing Christian resources and a possible expansion of the historic “Business as Missions” model that […]
The Bethany family celebrated the launch of a Bible press in the heart of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Thanksgiving Day. The vision behind the press is to see one million Bibles printed in the Khmer language in the next five years. For the first time in Cambodia’s history, the Bible will be accessible to all […]
Christians all over the world join together today to pray for those suffering poverty. There are approximately 1 billion people who struggle to survive on less than one dollar a day. Often, efforts to help these suffering masses are unsuccessful because of government corruption. Bethany will hold a 1/2 Day Set Apart tomorrow, Tuesday, December […]