Churches around the world are growing and strengthening as families and individual believers mature in their faith through biblical-based teaching and training.
The Monroy family stands out against culture as they have embedded the biblical principle of hospitality into their lives, opening their doors and showing others how they have ordered their family around Christ’s principles and the Church.
Despite the effects of an ongoing war in Ukraine, the gospel has taken root in a network of churches and has continued to grow, highlighting the need for church leadership training to bring churches to maturity.
One of BILD’s partners from Mendon, Michigan, reflects on his trip to India with the BILD team last fall and what participating in the global work means for his own local church family and continuing to root “the way of Christ and His Apostles”.
A deep understanding of ‘the way of Christ and His Apostles’ has transformed one missionary family’s life in Spain as they seek to impact the community and culture around them.
Abram Vos, an emerging third-generation leader in the Ames-Des Moines CityChurch network, traveled to the Dominican Republic this past August for the Latin America civilization gathering and shares the impact it has had on his life.
The first of many civilization gatherings recently took place in France as church network partners from around Europe gathered together to create a civilization-wide strategy for progressing the Gospel as patterned after the book of Acts.
Coaching sessions during BILD’s Global Summit focused on working with our international partners to create their own ministry maps to further the training and establishment of church leaders around the world.
BILD rolled out an accelerated church planting initiative to partner with potential church planters that seek to follow the patterns from the Book of Acts.
The BILD Global Summit was a time of celebration and development as we hosted our international and North American partners and could participate together in the life of a church network as patterned after the Book of Acts.
BILD’s 2024 Global Summit is planned for Feb. 21 through March 1, in Ames, Iowa.
The Latin America Global Resource Team continues its work in training and equipping leaders, setting the stage to build a civilization network of churches.
A network of church leaders and pastors in Mumbai have been eager to use BILD’s EQUIP, an online program that can track both the progress of one’s work as they complete the various BILD resources, and also their growth in their faith development.
A reflection on the life of Keith Cook, late Chairman of the BILD Board, who focused on the work and the joy he experienced in a life of faithfully serving Christ.
EQUIP provides network and church leaders the ability to manage and oversee their individual member's progress as they work through programs, creating a centralized location for tracking progress.
Establishment in God’s Story is helping the Ukrainian team remain effective during war time.
An executive education program developed for key leaders around the globe has had a profound impact as these leaders focus their work on bringing others along in order to better develop church networks that are biblically aligned and thriving.
In their commitment to following New Testament principles, church leaders in Michigan have developed a concept that has not only helped establish their church family but has provided a way to fund future ministry growth and church planting.
Continued leadership training and maturing in biblical principles has played a large part in laying the groundwork for future church growth and expansion in Ukraine as church leaders look toward a post-war future.
As ministry leaders from an organization in India have become established and continue to grow their own ministries and plant churches, BILD is helping facilitate the development of a complex church network.
Upon completion of a Master Craftsman Doctorate of Ministry program, BILD and our Indian partners celebrated the hard work of hundreds of ministry leaders in their accomplishments at a celebration ceremony in March.
North American leaders and a small group of international leaders were in Ames to strategize the next steps in growing and maturing their ministries.
Because of their understanding that what is now happening in the history of Ukraine is situated within the larger story of God and His grand strategy through the Church, BILD's key partner in Ukraine has been mobilizing and taking extraordinary risks to assist churches in the network.
Church leaders from CityChurch Lawrence are making a mark on their community as they seek to propel the gospel by engaging with leaders and developing strategic partnerships to build and establish a citywide network.
In the midst of the current conflict we are witnessing in Ukraine, there is a network of churches across that country who have mobilized and are meeting the challenges of the crisis in whole communities because key leaders have grasped some very important New Testament concepts.
With a great desire to become a benefactor of BILD, David Sigmon was met with a string of new start-up business failures before finding success as a self-enterprising entrepreneur. With a focus on New Testament principles around funding the progress of the gospel, David has grown in his faith and understanding of what it means to be a coworker in the ministry.
BILD facilitated the exchange of a monetary gift between two global partner networks in response to the COVID crisis in India.
The Latin America Global Resource Team is implementing BILD’s mission to fully equip church leaders and develop church planting movements in 16 countries.
Word of Faith Church in Atlanta, Ga., is heeding the call to train and establish leaders within its 18,000-member congregation to be effective in planting churches and progressing the gospel.
A lifetime of learning and the constant renewing of her mind around Christ’s principles has helped Sabina Immanuel step into the role God has given her at New Life Assemblies of God Church in Chennai, India.
Being a benefactor church has given everyone in the Canton CityChurch a role to participate in the progress of the Gospel by supporting and working with global church networks.
Red Bendición church network in Santo Domingo is meeting needs within the city as it progresses the gospel and funds church-planting movements through its water distribution business.
Church leaders in Mongolia led their church families through BILD’s life stewardship series that furthered their understanding in how they minister to each other and their ability to develop their lives, ministries, and marriages.
The perspective of leaders and believers’ roles in the church have shifted after being trained and developed in their local churches through their partnership with BILD.
After learning and applying BILD’s church-based theological education, a central India church leader continues to apply his learning toward the growth of his church and development of its leaders and the life of the church.
Building a foundation from The First Principles, the church family at Chennai, Ayyanawaram Maranatha Prayer House (AMPH) has been unified around the Lord’s Supper, breaking down social and cultural barriers.
After a tragic accident left a mother and child without a husband and father, their church family stepped in to take care of their needs, putting into practice and solidifying their understanding of The First Principles and the church as a family of families.
Using the New Testament model of churches, the BILD Latin American Global Resource Team is strengthening and expanding almost 700 churches in over 15 countries.
David Haila’s understanding and living out the first principles of the faith has been defined by participation in his local church and using the resources God has entrusted to him and his family to see the gospel spread locally and globally.
Church leaders going through ministry-level training using BILD resources have helped strengthen and grow local churches in Uganda and East African Community Countries, impacting individuals, ministries, families, communities, and workplaces.
Fulfilling BILD's vision of leaders training leaders in church-based theological education, a church in Pennsylvania is preparing its local leaders for the real needs of the ministry.