Boys and Girls Missionary Challenge
BGMC is the Assemblies of God missions program for boys and girls. Boys and girls are on a mission to help missionaries. The money raised through BGMC is used to provide our missionaries with the supplies they need to reach people around the world. BGMC equips kids to know, to care, to pray, to give, and to reach the lost. BGMC has a two-fold purpose:
1. To reach the children of the world
2. To create a heart of compassion in children
The Purpose of BGMC
From the beginning, BGMC had tow avowed aims. The first was to furnish needed literature for the mission fields. The second was to instill within the heart of every Pentecostal boy and girl the missionary vision. A slogan was created to accurately describe the ministry of BGMC. That slogan was "The Word for the World."
In 1952, BGMC began to emphasize a specific mission field every year. Emphasis was placed on that field, and a special offering was taken up on BGMC Day, which included the adults in the church.
BGMC Today
BGMC is now a part of the national Children's Ministries Agency. The Executive Presbytery of the Assemblies of God voted in June 2001 that BGMC would be the children's missions education program for all Assemblies of God kids.
The use of BGMC funds has expanded. Now missionaries can use BGMC funds for anything then need to help them spread the gospel. BGMC is the program that allows our missionaries to get the supplies that they need in order to spread the gospel and reach the world. BGMC is the only program that gives our missionaries the freedom to buy such things as puppets, clown outfits, costume animals, Bibles, tracts, Sunday School literature, computers, video tapes, CD's, training manuals, and lots more. The only restrictions that BGMC places are that the items have to do with "evangelism" or "discipleship." BGMC is the program that provides whatever a missionary needs - where they need it and when they need it. Many missionaries would be at a loss without BGMC. That's why our missionaries LOVE BGMC.
BGMC not only helps individual missionaries, but it also helps fund various missions organizations, such as International Media Ministries, Global University, The Christian Training Network, Generation XXI, Resource and Development Ministries (RDM), STAR Radio Advance, Center for Muslim Ministries, Healthcare Ministries, and Teen Challenge International.
BGMC also provides supplies to our home missionaries and missions organizations that we have here in America. BGMC helps Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, Institutional/Occupational Chaplaincy, Intercultural Ministries, the Military Chaplaincy, Teen Challenge, and Church Planting. In fact, BGMC provides each new church plant with $400.00 to buy supplies then need to get started. Plus they are given $75.00 each quarter for the first year to purchase Sunday School materials. A percentage of BGMC funds are also given back to the districts to use for home missions projects in their own districts. As you can see, BGMC is greatly used and greatly needed by our missionaries.
BGMC especially tries to target the children of the world by providing for street kids, orphanages, feeding programs, school supplies, sending kids to camps, the making of children's TV programs and videos, and lots more!
BGMC also pays to have materials translated into different languages so people can read things in their own language. BGMC has had the JBQ program, Royal Rangers, Missionettes, Kids Church curriculum, and Sunday School lessons translated into many different languages around the world.
1. To reach the children of the world
2. To create a heart of compassion in children
The Purpose of BGMC
From the beginning, BGMC had tow avowed aims. The first was to furnish needed literature for the mission fields. The second was to instill within the heart of every Pentecostal boy and girl the missionary vision. A slogan was created to accurately describe the ministry of BGMC. That slogan was "The Word for the World."
In 1952, BGMC began to emphasize a specific mission field every year. Emphasis was placed on that field, and a special offering was taken up on BGMC Day, which included the adults in the church.
BGMC Today
BGMC is now a part of the national Children's Ministries Agency. The Executive Presbytery of the Assemblies of God voted in June 2001 that BGMC would be the children's missions education program for all Assemblies of God kids.
The use of BGMC funds has expanded. Now missionaries can use BGMC funds for anything then need to help them spread the gospel. BGMC is the program that allows our missionaries to get the supplies that they need in order to spread the gospel and reach the world. BGMC is the only program that gives our missionaries the freedom to buy such things as puppets, clown outfits, costume animals, Bibles, tracts, Sunday School literature, computers, video tapes, CD's, training manuals, and lots more. The only restrictions that BGMC places are that the items have to do with "evangelism" or "discipleship." BGMC is the program that provides whatever a missionary needs - where they need it and when they need it. Many missionaries would be at a loss without BGMC. That's why our missionaries LOVE BGMC.
BGMC not only helps individual missionaries, but it also helps fund various missions organizations, such as International Media Ministries, Global University, The Christian Training Network, Generation XXI, Resource and Development Ministries (RDM), STAR Radio Advance, Center for Muslim Ministries, Healthcare Ministries, and Teen Challenge International.
BGMC also provides supplies to our home missionaries and missions organizations that we have here in America. BGMC helps Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, Institutional/Occupational Chaplaincy, Intercultural Ministries, the Military Chaplaincy, Teen Challenge, and Church Planting. In fact, BGMC provides each new church plant with $400.00 to buy supplies then need to get started. Plus they are given $75.00 each quarter for the first year to purchase Sunday School materials. A percentage of BGMC funds are also given back to the districts to use for home missions projects in their own districts. As you can see, BGMC is greatly used and greatly needed by our missionaries.
BGMC especially tries to target the children of the world by providing for street kids, orphanages, feeding programs, school supplies, sending kids to camps, the making of children's TV programs and videos, and lots more!
BGMC also pays to have materials translated into different languages so people can read things in their own language. BGMC has had the JBQ program, Royal Rangers, Missionettes, Kids Church curriculum, and Sunday School lessons translated into many different languages around the world.