Global Outreach

Phil and Catherine Dow and their two daughters, Emma and Sophie serve as the Headmaster at the Black Forest Academy (BFA) in Kandern, Germany. Black Forest Academy is a Christian school whose students are made up primarily of children of missionary families serving abroad. Previously they served for twelve years at Rosslyn Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. God recently led them to this new work in Germany. The Dows sum up what their work means at BFA by saying, “We feel like the work that God has called us to at Black Forest Academy is the culmination of everything He has been doing in our lives to this point. We can’t imagine a more significant Kingdom role than the one that we get to play at BFA – both in discipling and developing the next generation of global Christian leaders and in supporting missionary work in some of the most challenging places in the world, by educating the children of these missionaries.” Please keep the Dow family in your prayers as they advance the gospel through their ministry in Germany.

If you would like to support Phil & Catherine separately from BRBC’s regular budgeted giving; you may donate online at their website https://www.dowsatbfa.com/, or read their blog posts.

Founded and led by Dr. Ambrose Emanuel, the Foundation established a home for boys rescued from indentured servitude, provides basic medical skills training to pastors and lay leaders, is establishing a local clinic in Lahore, etc. 

Smyrna Ministries International is an organization dedicated to praying for and financially assisting persecuted Christians in the Muslim context throughout the world. Smyrna partners with Christian ministries in nearly 20 countries throughout the Muslim world.

The passion of Smyrna Ministries is to 1) provide tools that will help you prayerfully intercede for Christians who are being persecuted under Islam; and 2) serve the persecuted Church by providing our international partners with the materials and funds they need to minister effectively.

Find out more at smyrnaministries.org

BRBC is privileged to be connected with a number of national missionaries through Smyrna Ministries. We currently support pastors in Nigeria and Syria and are blessed to be a partner with their ministries to local believers, widows & orphans, and refugees, among many other areas. We partner financially, in prayer, and in one-to-one communication. The faith of these extraordinary brothers and sisters has tangibly blessed us and helps to build up our faith.

Also at Black Forest Academy, John is teaching science/math and mentoring a group of bovs.

Dr. Ambrose serves the people of Pakistan in many ways. One way he serves is at the Bach Christian Hospital as not only a physician, but also the medical superintendent. Another ministry founded by Dr. Ambrose is Healing Journeys Foundation which is working on a small scale, but in a really fruitful manner through medical mission and compassionate serving. Their medical outreach in the outskirts of Faisalabad is a ray of hope for so many in the area who otherwise can’t afford a trip to the hospital. Medical grounds are the best way to gather people to provide them the Word of God. Salvation is preached directly and indirectly through their medical work. The children’s center at Lahore, also founded by Dr. Ambrose, is effectively nurturing 8 boys from the brick kilns. Whenever he sees those boys and remembers where they came from and what situation they were in when he first met them, his heart is filled with joy and gratitude. He feels that those boys are the fruit of his ministry. All of them are growing not only physically, but spiritually as well.

For more information about the Pakistan Children’s Center, pictures, and a video, click HERE.

Founded by the late Stephen Aputara and led by his son Ken, SCM provides aid to the churches in Ghana’s northern areas with such needed assistance as providing church roofs, giving motorbikes to pastors and local missionaries, providing seed for the planting season, holding evangelistic rallies, and so much more.

EMA is the missionary wing of the Good News Bible Church and is currently led by Pastor Abukari. We support 5 national missionaries who are seeking to reach into areas where the Gospel has not gone

Traveling and teaching national pastors as they together plant churches in Cambodia, a country that is less than 2% Christian. He also travels throughout the region training pastors and encouraging outreach.

In his second year as a missionary, he is focused on learning Japanese and is actively involved in outreach to Japanese youth (The Japanese are the second largest unreached people group in the world).

Providing the materials, training, and transport for one Iranian Church planter inside of Iran.