Monthly Archives: November 2022

Editor’s Note: In 2012, Pastor Carl C. Cassel shared the following with the Executive Board when they asked him to share his view of the BFC’s core values. At the time the Executive Board was working to clarify its vision and mission. Recently rediscovered, the below article still hits home after ten years. It has been edited...

Pastor Carl K. Spackman passed away on May 4, 2022. You can view his full obituary here which includes the details of his love for railroads. For OneVoice Magazine, three men who knew him well shared their remembrances of his life and ministry. God Uses Faithful Church Men by Church Extension Director David...

Every year, the Bible Fellowship Church church planters gather for a Church Extension Roundtable Discussion Day. The church planters bring real situations for which they need wisdom and ask the other church planters to share their thoughts and suggestions. One of the topics discussed at this year’s Roundtable Discussion Day was how to get volunteers. This is...

It was November 2021 when our foster son was reunited with his biological family. We had loved and cared for him for over 2 years when we received the call from the social worker. She said the judge ruled to reunify him today. I pleaded with the social worker to allow me to pick him up at...

Christian Nationalism. It seems to be a buzzword that evokes one of two reactions, either good or bad. Seldom is it neutral. We all know that "this world is not our home, we’re just a passin’ through." We also know that our ultimate allegiance is to our God and King, that Jesus is our Lord, and that...

I do not have a proof text for this, but I like to picture, when Bruce Heffner was entering the Pearly Gates of Heaven, that Saint Peter was handing him a trumpet and pointing to the brass section. My personal friend, co-worker, and fellow Gospel minister went to be with Jesus in late February 2022. He will...

In March 2022, a group from Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Harrisburg, PA, traveled to Bolivia to join up with BFC and International Tribal Ministries (ITM) missionaries Tony and Joanna Murrin and Haleigh Ott (now Vargas). The trip had actually been scheduled for 2021 but had been postponed a couple of times due to COVID. Our team was...

My friend, Harry Workman went home to Jesus on April 26, 2022. In 2002, Church Extension requested that people from the BFC come to Delaware and assist us with doing community surveys. We had identified particular target sites where we wanted to start planting churches in the DELMARVA Peninsula. Harry and Sandra Workman were...