Our Ministry Overview

Welcome to BCM Peru! This is the Instituto de Biblico Y Ministerial (IBYM – “Institute of Bible and Ministry”), located outside of Lima, in a tiny little village called Picapiedra. Our future home!

This campus houses upwards of 60 students, some missionary families, and then ourselves. Our house is being built on this campus. Picapiedra is in the middle of the desert, so all the upkeep of all this vegetation that you see is part of Brian’s job.

There are three of the missionary families who would like their children to have English Christian education. Lisa is homeschooling these children in English. Brian is training to be the new head of maintenance on the grounds. For now, he works with the Logistics Team (part of the overall maintenance team). He is in charge of organizing new construction projects and making sure major maintenance issues around campus are fixed. Currently, he is building our house with a team of his own. In the future, when Brian has learned the ropes (and learned Spanish), he will be the new head of maintenance, which will include not only supervising all that goes on on a daily basis here, but also being in charge of the work hours of all the IBYM students. Brian is also making yearly trips to Iquitos to finish building the new BCM camp up in the jungle.

We will also be involved in the other outreaches:

Pennies for Peru Outreaches are held in the streets year-round. The ministry is led by a couple Peruvian missionaries and then carried out by a number of teen volunteers from local churches. Each Saturday, they reach hundreds of children with the Gospel through avenues such as song, mime, clown, and puppet shows.

Bible Clubs are also held weekly in local churches. Bible Institute students are also involved in leading them. Eventually, we will be helping with Teacher Training, using BCM’s international material – In Step With the Master Teacher. Visit www.ismt.org for more info on this awesome curriculum.

Other ministries include working in new church plants and evangelistic campaigns in the area. Camps are also held here at the IBYM campus year-round. During the winter months (March through September), we have camps on weekends. During the summer months (mostly January-February), we have camps all week. The IBYM students help with camps, but we will be involved more and more since the head staff only consists of four people currently. With how busy they are, they could really use a lot of help!

We will be the only Americans on campus (for the next few years at least) and will be doing mostly support work. We love being able to be “behind the scenes” and not needing to be out in front, heading up and leading the different ministries. The Peruvian team has been together for 10 years and we are enjoying helping free them up to do the ministry even better.

To have more details on BCM Peru, visit their website. There are pictures of the outreaches, the students, and even profiles on our co-workers.