Since they do not work directly ‘out in the field’ it is often difficult for the administrative staff of the BEM to find the necessary financial support. To counter this problem, the Mission created the ‘Staff Fund’. As explained above, this provides contributions for salary and social security payments for the team members and allows [...]

Eunice or Virginie? Some know me as ‘Virginie’, others use my second name ‘Eunice’. And I am married and have changed my surname. This often leads to confusion. Who are you? I am Belgian, married to Yann who is French. I was born into an evangelical background and converted at a camp for adolescents in [...]

6.20 am It is still dark in the offices in the Norton House at No. 158 Boulevard Lambermont. In a moment or two, one of the members of staff will arrive and bring a little life into this old building. 7.00am A key turns in the lock and a man taps out the security code [...]

A little history… We are in 1985; the Belgian Evangelical Mission buys two large houses on Boulevard Lambermont in Schaerbeek, towards the outskirts of Brussels. At this time the Flemish administration offices are in Genk and the French administration offices at the rue du Moniteur in Brussels, where the Bon Livre bookshop remains to this [...]

We have the most glorious of messages to communicate ! Yet it is not to the taste of our fellow-citizens. Every Christian with a missionary spirit should think about the challenge of bringing ‘the message of the Cross’ to a world that considers it ‘foolishness.’ (1Corinthians 1 v. 18) First of all, we must remain [...]