Holly Meriweather, Author at BMA Global

September 6, 2021

Missionaries and Communicating the Gospel

by John David Smith By calling and by necessity, missionaries are communicators. The ability to communicate in a culture that is not one’s birth culture requires much patience and practice as relationships are built. Most people automatically think of learning a new language – and in many cases multiple new languages – in order to communicate well. Certainly, language proficiency […]

September 10, 2021

Cesar Lacayo: ChangeMaker in Belize

The following was written by Cesar Lacayo, pastor/missionary of our BMA congregation in Belize City, Belize: This ministry started around the year 2002 as a mission outreach headed by missionary Pastor [and ChangeMaker] Ricardo Herrera Ramirez from the Garifuna village of Tornabe, Tela Honduras. His church planting strategy consisted of recruiting immigrants from the villages of Tornabe, San Juan, and Triunfo […]

September 14, 2021

The Danger in Judging Other Cultures

by Dr. John David Smith Western missionaries face many cultural issues when adjusting to most other cultures in the world. We must remember that everyone in the world typically judges other cultures through the filter of their own . . . that makes sense. The problem with this view is that most of the time we judge the other culture […]

September 18, 2021

Pastor Genesis: ChangeMaker in the Philippines

The following was written by former Missionary to the Philippines Jimmy Walker: Pastor Genesis Faith Mirano graduated from BMA Bible College of the Philippines in 2018. Since that time he has worked diligently in the neighborhoods of Barangay (brgy) 15 , a poor area in the city of Talisay and home to his sending church, Open Door Baptist Church. For […]