Phillip Rice

The first BMA church in the country of Mexico was organized in 1956. In those humble beginnings, no one could have imagined the plan that God had in store for the BMA in Mexico. Since then, God has used his churches of the BMA to grow his work in Mexico. For sixty-six years, new churches have been started, an association formed and organized, and missionaries called and sent to new fields.

Lifeword’s global partners are also pastors, ministry leaders, and church planters, so the media they produce is an important part of their ministries. Planting churches is their primary mission no matter where they are throughout the world. Each of these men and women has a burden for their people group and unique challenges to sharing the gospel with non-believers and planting churches.

Recently I was able to take a trip to the north of Ghana and Burkina Faso to meet with our ChangeMaker missionary Abugre Clement and other pastors in the region. While there, I attended a Sunday morning service at the church where Bro. Clement pastors. This was no ordinary church service; it was a joint service with the mother church and its two mission churches. 

We seldom hear of churches becoming more conservative as they progress in ministry, but we often hear of those which become more liberal and embrace a more liberal theology in their ministries. In my efforts to plant churches during the past fifty years, the motivating goal has been to be as literal and biblical as possible in the formation...