Our story

In 1884, the only Brethren in Christ congregations in the world were in North America. We had not yet caught a vision for reaching "the ends of the earth" and no BIC missions agency existed. All of this changed dramatically as God began revealing His heart to this small denomination...

When 37-year-old Rhoda Lee spoke up at an 1884 General Conference assembly, her passionate appeal to pursue God's Great Commission led to the first BIC contribution for foreign missions – a $5 bill.

By 1990, 212 years into our denomination’s history, BIC international membership had reached 20,000 people. In just 20 years since then, our international family has grown to over 120,000.

Today the BIC family has three international congregations for every one congregation in North America.

In the big picture, God’s Church shares one mission – the whole Church to taking the whole Gospel to the whole world. Pursuing this call, we work to see healthy congregations multiplying and continuing to multiply across the nations.