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August 7, 2025

Hello BIC family,

We have a shorter summer issue of Connect for you this month.

In this issue:

• ⛪️ Updates from church multiplication focus group
• 💵 Financial stewardship meets ministry funding
• 🌎 Watch Roxbury Missions Day livestream

Let’s dive in!

Scripture Meditation

📖 READ

Ephesians 3:16-17a – I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

🙏 REFLECT & RESPOND

In Ephesians 3:16-19, Paul writes a powerful prayer for all believers – both then and now – to experience the fullness and transformation that only comes from Christ. Consider praying this over your own spiritual life, your family, your church, and your workplace. What would this kind of transformation mean for your community?

Updates from Church Multiplication Focus Group

In October 2024, BIC church leaders, bishops, and pastors from each regional conference gathered to renew the denomination’s focus on multiplication and discipleship (prompted by Priority 3 of Project 250). Out of that gathering, a focus group formed to move the work forward.

Here, Bishop Heather Beaty (focus group member and Susquehanna Conference bishop) provides an update on their progress:

The focus group has been meeting monthly in 2025. Three main goals for our work include:

1 – To conduct thorough research on church planting in the denomination and deliver a robust, 5-year church planting vision.

2 – To create and roll out a nimble feedback tool for existing churches and pastors that identifies ongoing strategies and potential new works/leaders across conferences.

3 – To plan and facilitate a Spirit-led catalytic gathering for new leaders, ensuring a prophetic and affirming experience for all participants.

We started by defining key terms used in relation to BIC disciple-making, evaluating present practices, and laying out a road map for developing a recommendation to lead the BIC toward a movement of multiplication in disciple-making and church planting.

We are presently exploring historical BIC planting and disciple-making approaches and surveying pastors who are serving now. This fall, we hope to work with Leadership Council to develop a database of assets available for pastors and congregations in various stages of development.

Finally, we are identifying general categories that will help us share common language for the stages of development in church planting. Shared language will clarify processes, practices, and support available for potential and active church planters and pastors.

Please continue to pray with us!

We want God’s Spirit to lead us in forming a good foundation for a fresh work of the Spirit in a renewed disciple-making and church-planting movement within our BIC family.

– Bishop Heather Beaty and the Church Multiplication Focus Group

Financial Stewardship Meets Ministry Funding

As a ministry of – and to – the BIC U.S. family, the Brethren in Christ Foundation helps individuals and congregations invest in their faith community.

How? The process is quite simple:

• Invest – To start, investors receive industry-competitive rates on a range of investments suited to any life stage.
• Loan – The Foundation uses those investments to issue loans that seed ministries’ growth.
• Return – Interest from those loans is returned to investors, growing their accounts. Investors additionally gain satisfaction, knowing their investment funded loans that make a difference in the world.

In essence, your investments directly impact BIC ministry!

Over the past two years, the demand for mortgages and renovation loans has increased – an exciting sign of growth and outreach. As an investor, you get to support growing congregations and fledgling ministries across the U.S.

(Oh, and investment options start at $5.)

This is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the investments described herein. An offer with respect to Brethren in Christ Foundation investments can be made only by the prospectus. No offer or sale of investments is made in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not in compliance with applicable law. Offers and sales may be made only by an authorized officer of the Foundation. These products are uninsured debt obligations of the Foundation. These products are not savings or deposit or other obligations of a bank and are not insured by the FDIC, SIPC, any state insurance fund or any other governmental agency.

Missions Day Livestream

This Saturday, August 9, head to the Roxbury Holiness Camp Facebook page to watch the Missions Day livestreams. Sessions are scheduled for 10:30am and 1:30pm and will feature updates and stories from BIC U.S. missionaries around the world.

Photos from Missions Day 2024

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